Associations feeling more pressure but seeking unity
___By Mark Wingfield
___Managing Editor
___As political and theological pressures that have plagued state and national Baptist conventions for 20 years move closer to home, Baptist associations in Texas are scrambling to keep their flocks together and in some cases redefine the parameters of the fold.
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Key Church strategy gets new ingredients to increase appeal
___By Dan Martin
___Texas Baptist Communications
___Jim Burgin may well be the Emeril Lagasse of Texas Baptists.
___Lagasse is the New Orleans restaurateur who hosts a Food TV cooking show and is "Good Morning America's" chef-in-residence. He tosses a bit of Cajun spice into whatever he's cooking and shouts: "Bam! Let's kick it up a notch."
___Not that Burgin is flamboyant. He isn't. He is certainly not a chef of renown. His only culinary specialty--he says--is a bologna sandwich on white bread.
___It's just that he has taken the Key Church program of the Baptist General Convention and kicked it up a notch.
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Survey finds NIV top pick
___PHOENIX (ABP)--The New International Version is the most popular Bible translation among Protestant ministers, according to a new nationwide survey.
___In a poll of more than 500 pastors of Protestant churches, 34 percent said they are most likely to rely on the NIV in their work. The traditional King James Version was favored by 24 percent, followed by the New Revised Standard Version (17 percent), the New King James Version (10 percent) and the New American Standard Version (9 percent).
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Semple announces retirement date
___By Ken Camp
___Texas Baptist Communications
___DALLAS--After serving 12 years as director of the Texas Baptist State Missions Commission, James Semple has announced his plans to retire effective Feb. 1.
___Semple, 69, notified the 18-member commission of his plans at its Aug. 24 meeting in Dallas. The commission responded by passing a resolution of appreciation for Semple.
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Newport called friend and scholar
___By Mark Wingfield
___Managing Editor
___FORT WORTH--Colleagues remembered John Newport as a gracious bridge-builder, renowned scholar and effective apologist for the Christian faith at his memorial service Aug. 21.
___Newport, former vice president for academic affairs and provost at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, died Aug. 18 of complications from a stroke he suffered in June. He was 83.
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Jail sentence was a miracle that set him free
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VAN PATTON
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Van Patton, bivocational pastor of Mission Mount Vernon, says his ministry started in the Franklin County Courthouse, where he received a jail sentence that eventualy set him free.
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