by pastormikejordan » Sun Feb 01, 2009 9:22 pm
Tim & Ed--sorry, I didn't mean to initiate a discussion on whether or not SoCs are worthwhile. I will just say this: I do think it's important that there is a way for American Baptists to speak to the world on topics of importance. To the extent that SoCs accomplish this, I favor them. To the extent that they are a vehicle for the noisiest or richest ABs to manipulate one of the very few levers that ABs have to speak to the world, I don't like them.
Unlike Tim, I do think it's worthwhile for Christians to debate these things and hear each other out; if we eschew it to focus on the essentials, we soon find that we don't agree on what the essentials are...
Michael Jordan
Exton, PA
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