by Tom Parker » Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:03 pm
David Flick:
You said:"Anyway, I vividly recall the moment when Dr. Wayne Dehoney pointed to the skyboxes where Pressler, Patterson, and minions were ensconced."
Sadly, the minions are still at work in the SBC trying and sadly too often succeeding in getting removed anyone that does not see the Baptist world exactly the way they do--2000 BF&M being a good example.
The association that the church I attend just in the last week disfellowshipped a church that dared to call a woman Pastor.
Sadly, you know how these things are done--most of it out of the daylight so that others see can not see how mean and narrow-minded they are.
It is just like Washington DC--knowing the outcome before anything is done and then trying to act suprised at what happens.
As I said to someone at church last night--for the most parts nonchristians will never bother a christian's life, livelihood, but too often the harm is from those people who claim the name of Christ.
You've felt that sting from these "frioends" and so have many others.
The mass of SB do not have a clue how these things are done to Dom's, pastor's etc., because they are rarely given an opportunity to defend themselves.