McKissic to SBC: Repent of Racism, Part 2

[Big Daddy Weaver]

[Dave Roberts]

Reading the blog is an exercise in facing reality. We all have racist issues that are still with us. If we want the world to believe, then Baptists have to start acting like Christians in the area of race. I did not hear a victim mentality but more of a prophetic challenge to all Baptists.

[William Thornton]

[johnfariss]

I commented on Dr. McKissic's blog, so I will not repeat my comments here. But I do have a question, especially for any SBTC folks: what does the statement from "Evangelist" Davis have to do with evangelism? Granted there is a reference to wanting President Obama to be saved (with the judgment that he presently is not, despite his claim to the contrary), but that seems to be secondary to a political statement. What was the rest of his sermon like?

John Fariss

[TimR2]

[Big Daddy Weaver]

William,

What do you think it's like to be a black pastor in the SBC? I bet its an experience that no white pastor can really understand. It's easy for us white folks to say that race shouldn't matter or doesn't matter. However, that's certainly not the experience of African-Americans such as McKissic who lives in a world where he is constantly reminded that he is the Other.

A quota and intentional diversity are not the same. What McKissic desires in terms of racial diversity is really not different than what people like Les Puryear desire in terms of small church representation.

[Sandy]

[Haruo]

Yeah, the point is not that the SBC should have racial quotas, but that it should not need them.

[William Thornton]

[Haruo]

How many predominantly white SBC churches have called black pastors?

[rfuss]

[Bruce Gourley]

[David Flick]

[Haruo]

[Lamar Wadsworth]

The only predominately white SBC churches that I know of that has called a black senior pastor are Seventh Baptist Church in Baltimore and Colonial Baptist Church in Randallstown (suburban Baltimore) MD.