Glazener, Newton and Fenner to be nominated for BGCT office
___By Marv Knox
___Editor
___Two pastors and a veteran missions leader will be nominated for the Baptist General Convention of Texas' top elected positions when the convention holds its annual session in Corpus Christi Oct. 30-31.
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Counselor to Texas ministers will retire
___By Ken Camp
___Texas Baptist Communications
___After personally counseling more than 1,600 ministers and their families in the last 12 and a half years, Glenn Booth will retire Dec. 31 as coordinator of the Ministers Counseling Service.
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Counselor's new website aims to delete divorce epidemic
___By Mark Wingfield
___Managing Editor
___DALLAS--Could an Internet matchmaking service be the answer to America's surging divorce problem?
___Christian counselor and author Neil Clark Warren thinks so, and to prove it he's launched a new website called eharmony.com. He chose Texas as the place to introduce the new service, although the concept already is gaining nationwide publicity.
___His premise is simple: Most failed marriages were doomed from the start because ofincompatibility. If there were some way to help men and women better assess compatibility before marriage, there would be fewer divorces.
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TBC rallies kick off with focus on Jesus
___By Marv Knox
___Editor
___DALLAS--A personal relationship with Jesus provides the core of Baptist identity, speakers stressed at the first of 18 Focus on Jesus rallies, sponsored by Texas Baptists Committed.
___"The very essence of being a Baptist is focused on a relationship with Jesus Christ," Keith Parks told about 200 people at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas Sept. 14. And for the sake of generations to come, Texas Baptists must concentrate on introducing others to that relationship with Jesus, added Jim Denison.
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Chapman says BGCT forcing churches to choose
___By Mark Wingfield
___Managing Editor
___The Baptist General Convention of Texas is "systematically attempting to influence Southern Baptist churches in Texas to forsake their loyalty to the Southern Baptist Convention," Morris Chapman told the SBC Executive Committee Sept. 18.
___Chapman, president of the Nashville-based Executive Committee, firmly denounced a proposal by two BGCT committees to redirect nearly $6.5 million in Cooperative Program funds away from certain SBC causes next year.
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