September 4, 2000

Oklahoma's DOMs
affirm revised BF&M
___OKLAHOMA CITY--Oklahoma's directors of associational missions have affirmed the Southern Baptist Convention's revised Baptist Faith & Message and urged churches to adopt the revised document as their official statement of faith.
___During an Aug. 25 meeting in Oklahoma City, the directors of missions adopted a seven-paragraph resolution "supporting the June 14, 2000, edition of the Baptist Faith & Message, and particularly article I, The Scripture."
___The resolution further commended the work of Adrian Rogers, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in suburban Memphis, Tenn., and chairman of the SBC committee that proposed changes in the statement.
___Those changes were adopted by messengers to this summer's SBC annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. Several Texans, including Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Director Charles Wade, unsuccessfully attempted at that time to amend the committee's report to make it more generally acceptable to a broader range of Southern Baptists.
___Oklahoma directors of missions, who have no binding authority on the churches in their associations, did not stop at merely affirming the revised Baptist Faith & Message. They went on to "encourage the pastors and members of the churches to seriously consider the adoption" of the revised document as their "generally accepted confession of faith."

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