Stand With Christ: Why Missionaries Can't Sign The 2000 Baptist Faith And Message

by Robert O'Brien

Book Overview

A line has been drawn in the sand . . .

For nearly two decades, the conventional wisdom regarding the fundamentalist movement and the eventual takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention was this: At its core, it's a preacher fight.The debate and conflict was mostly isolated to denominational agencies and among ministry professionals. However, in June, 2000, the conflict evolved in such a way that it no longer could be contained by the phrase...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573124036
• ISBN13: 9781573124034
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Tom Parker

This short book is excellent!! For anyone who really wants to know what happened in the Southern Baptist Convention as it relates to missionaries being fired this book is a good starting place. The Baptist Faith & Mission was revised causing some missionaries not being able in good conscience to do something they had never been asked to do before-- signing off to a creed. Some will always argue that were not being asked to sign a creed, but IMO and others they were asked to sign a creed greatly changing the role of women and they would not sign off on this document and they lost their jobs. Some of these missionaries had been serving for numerous years but it did not matter. Sign yes and you can stay, not sign and you were out.

Informative Warning

Not just for missionaries, but also for any person concerned for historic Baptist principles of individual freedom, local church autonomy, priesthood of the believer, etc...this book is a welcomed contribution to Baptist understanding. If you feel uninformed concerning the controversy in the Southern Baptist Convention over the past couple of decades, the authors of this book speak from a broad range of experience and expertise to provide the troubling history and theology behind the "Fundamentalist Takeover." This volume is especially helpful for those wishing to gain a clearer understanding of the role of the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 in the current politics of the Southern Baptist Convention. To read this book is to read the testimony of several of the most respected voices in moderate Baptist life. Highly recommended!

Insightful Book.

The book is a short compilation of essays on why missionaries shouldn't sign the 2000 BFM. This is a biased work definitely siding with those who disagree with the fundamentalist leadership and current direction of the SBC. I found the essays interesting and helped me see the greater controversy brewing in the SBC. The views expressed are more out of concern then judgment of other brothers and sisters in the faith. They want the reader to know why they are disagreeing with the leadership. I wouldn't call this book heresy or written by simple-minded liberals either. The authors have had positions of authority in missions and have experience on the mission field. Just because we disagree at times doesn't mean we should persecute our brothers in faith.If you want to know why there is so much fuss about these folks over doctrinal issues and creeds then I recommend this book.