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News articles
2003
• Missions network board adopts purpose statement (5/19/03)
• HBU trustee committee to study relation to SBTC (5/19/03)
• Loss of 43 missionaries in a day called IMB record (5/19/03)
• For her birthday, Texas-born missionary got a pink slip from the IMB (5/19/03)
• Lotz proposes Third World network (5/19/03)
• IMB trustees support Rankin’s ultimatum by firing missionaries (5/12/03)
• Hemphill responds to Standard’s story on his departure (4/28/03)
• Missionaries respond: ‘We are not guilty of misconduct’ (4/28/03)
• Sign by May 5 or be fired, Rankin tells missionaries (4/21/03)
• Patterson speaks about Southwestern; chairman denies Hemphill was ousted (4/21/03)
• Ouster of two Southwestern profs confirmed (4/21/03)
• Two seminary professors under fire (4/14/03)
• Ken Hemphill leaving Southwestern for new post with SBC in Nashville (4/14/03)
• Missionary resigns IMB, says BF&M makes humans model for Jesus (4/7/03)
• Texas Baptist giving to SBC causes shifts channels but slows overall (4/7/03)
• CBF leader downplays role of Mainstream Baptists network (3/31/03)
• Make up difference in SBC cutback, Baptist World Alliance leader pleads (3/17/03)
• Mission board leaders criticize sentence added to agreement (3/17/03)
• Executive Board Oks new cooperative agreement with NAMB (3/10/03)
• 139 missionaries have contacted BGCT (3/10/03)
• Missions network board begins to define its task (3/3/03)
• IMB reports record results; funding lagging behind sending (3/3/03)
• Texas Baptist Men retains relation with BGCT, will work also with SBTC (2/24/03)
• SBC shifts some funding from BWA to create new international network (2/24/03)
• ‘If we’re not like-minded, who is,’ BWA executive asks SBC leaders (2/24/03)
• Chapman seeks to influence Texas churches (2/17/03)
• Anderson to chair BGCT's missions network board; first meeting set (2/10/03)
• Missouri convention reduces staff, evicts newspaper from office space (2/10/03)
• MacGorman: ‘I feel like a father whose children don’t get along’ (2/10/03)
• IMB confirms calling missionaries on BF&M (2/3/03)
• Georgia editor & three others dismissed by executive (1/27/03)
• State Missions Commission takes another try at NAMB agreement (1/27/03)
• NAMB dismisses chaplaincy chief (1/27/03)
• More missionaries getting ‘the call,’ but this one’s from IMB executive (1/27/03)
• Texas and BGCT still tops in Lottie gifts (1/20/03)
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District of Columbia convention faces financial challenges due to changes (12/9/02)
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Missouri conventionÕs suit against 5 agencies may proceed, judge says (12/2/02)
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First Baptist Church of Dallas cites support for pastor in BGCT pullout (12/2/02)
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Virginia and Texas both charting new courses in Baptist missions (11/25/02)
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Excerpts from missionaryÕs teaching questioned by IMB (11/25/02)
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IMBÕs probe of fired missionaryÕs text delves into BibleÕs most vexing issues (11/25/02)
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BGCT offering olive branch to SBC, Campbell says (11/18/02)
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World missions network isnÕt first time for Texas innovation, Wade says (11/18/02)
• CBF Texas will consider aid to former IMB missionaries (11/18/02)
• Rankin says ŌmythsÕ about IMB are misguided (11/18/02)
• Missionaries terminated by IMB; reasons disputed (11/18/02)
• Messengers approve BGCT world missions network (11/18/02)
• SBTC forms education body (11/11/02)
• BGCT moving Ōbeyond struggle,Õ Wade says (11/4/02)
• Veteran missionary joins Medical/Dental Fellowship staff (11/4/02)
• Competing state convention pledges allegiance to SBC in annual meeting (11/4/02)
• CBF says itÕs distinct from SBC but not a convention (10/28/02)
• IMB: Non-signers canÕt stay indefinitely (10/28/02)
• SBC exceeds budget despite reduced giving through BGCT for fiscal year (10/28/02)
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Sign BF&M or don't return to field, furloughing missionaries told by IMB (10/21/02)
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Missions network, record budget to command convention spotlight (10/21/02)
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Mission board offers compromise on covenant agreement with BGCT (10/14/02)
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FalwellÕs theology shaped by politics, BGCT leaders say (10/14/02)
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IMB transferring Yemen hospital to Muslim-run charity (10/7/02)
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Missiologists affirmBGCT network (10/7/02)
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Executive Board removes BF&M reference from agreement with SBC (9/30/02)
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World missions network wins favor with BGCT Executive Board members (9/30/02)
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SBC will allow two state conventions in Texas & Virginia but not Missouri (9/23/02)
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Couple reportedly rejected by IMB because their pastor is a woman (9/16/02)
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SBTC has more than it can spend (9/16/02)
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NAMB president & BGCT see two situations differently (9/16/02)
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SBC leaders critique BGCT's missions and budget plans (9/16/02)
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Southwestern faculty affirm BF&M in formal ceremony (9/9/02)
• BGCT study calls for no relationship change with SBC (9/9/02)
• BGCT proposes budget growth to $50.9 million (9/9/02)
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Wade urges moving 'beyond this fight' with giving form changes (9/9/02)
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New worldwide missions network proposed by BGCT study committee (9/9/02)
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Gifts to CBF increase for the year but fail to meet budget allocations (8/26/02)
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New cooperative agreement clarifies BGCT and SBC's joint mission work (8/26/02)
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IMB trustees appoint 79, receive 53 resignations; 12 cite BF&M (8/19/02)
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CBF official offered to quit after plagiarism reported (8/19/02)
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Missouri convention sues 5 agencies (8/19/02)
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D.C. convention 'not for sale,' leader says in response to NAMB (8/19/02)
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Rankin letter explains BF&M request, compares it to averting terrorism (8/12/02)
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CBF officials comment on plagiarism (7/29/02)
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BWA considers granting recognition to CBF; SBC leaders oppose action (7/22/02)
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Texas WMU creates network to serve those outside BGCT (7/15/02)
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SBC will defund D.C. convention; new convention loyal to SBC likely (7/15/02)
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BGCT listening sessions hear appeal for networking churches on mission (7/15/02)
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Graham discusses the future of SBC & Texas Baptists (6/17/02)
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Graham and Pressler elected to SBC leadership; Porter out after 25 years (6/17/02)
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Southwestern provost will continue as theology dean; other changes made (6/10/02)
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Spanish pastor commends Texas Partnerships approach (6/3/02)
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How the IMB has used the Baptist Faith & Message (6/3/02)
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Two more missionaries explain why they won't sign (6/3/02)
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'Overwhelming majority' will sign BF&M affirmation (6/3/02)
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Texas missionary's criticism of SBC magazine factored in BF&M mandate (6/3/02)
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Historian traces roots and modern influence of Baptist-style Calvinism (5/27/02)
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Virginia Baptists approve new vision (5/20/02)
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One who won't sign (5/20/02)
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Hall: BGCT funds missions as churches direct (5/20/02)
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Missouri agencies dispute MBC's legal opinion (5/13/02)
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BGCT's missionary transition initiative may take two years, leaders prdict (5/6/02)
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Baptist Convention of the Americas? Not yet, but maybe, Reynolds says (5/6/02)
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New Missouri convention vows to shun Baptist politics (4/29/02)
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'Show Me' Baptists trot out legal briefs, new paper, new body (4/22/02)
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Virginia convention's vision calls for appointing 'glocal' missionaries (4/22/02)
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BGCT explores ongoing partnership south of the border (4/22/02)
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Southwestern names 8 new faculty; picks hailed as true conservatives (4/15/02)
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It's 'not enough' to believe every word of the Bible, SBTc leader says (4/8/02)
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BGCT and SBTC both launch new periodicals (4/8/02)
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El Paso missionary recalls Rankin pledged no signing (4/8/02)
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Pressler will be nominated as SBC's 1st vice president at annual meeting (4/1/02)
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Rankin expects most missionaries to sign; trustees commend Rankin (3/25/02)
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D.C. declines to let SBC look over shoulder (3/18/02)
• Chapman appeals for full funding of SBC (3/11/02)
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BGCT 'manufacturing a crisis,' IMB leader says (3/11/02)
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Has IMB changed requirements? Past and present leaders disagree (3/11/02)
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CBF doesn't plan to pick up IMB missionaries, Vestal says (3/4/02)
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'Cease & desist' from harming states, SBC leaders admonished (3/4/02)
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BGCT Executive Board approves chaplains board (3/4/02)
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BGCT establishes transitional fund for IMB missionaries who won't sign (3/4/02)
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Texas WMU board appeals to 3 SBC leaders (2/25/02)
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Mainstream speakers 'disturbed' by SBC (2/25/02)
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SBC authorizes committee to study funding issues (2/25/02)
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Texas Baptist Men board deliberates relationship to alternative convention (2/25/02)
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BGCT committee wants to hear from missionaries (2/25/02)
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Baptist Faith & Message 'not a litmus test' for missionaries, Rankin says (2/18/02)
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SB C official defends Chapman's letter to Texas churches (2/18/02)
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SBC to cease endorsing ordained female chaplains (2/18/02)
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Graham likely nominee for SBC presidency in June (2/11/02)
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What's in a name for Missouri Baptists (2/11/02)
• New Missouri convention will go on despite shunning by SBC official (2/11/02)
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Churches leave association due to Baptist Faith & Message requirement (2/11/02)
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SBC won't take money from new Missouri group (2/4/02)
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Rankin reverses course; IMB missionaries must sign (2/4/02)
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'Show Me' state Baptists preparing a second act for convention drama (1/28/02)
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News Articles 2001
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D.C. convention says its autonomy threatened by NAMB's demands (12/17/01)
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Trustee chairman says dean's removal was warranted (12/17/01)
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Hemphill reassigns theology dean as trustees seek more faculty change (12/10/01)
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Rival state convention draws heavily from East Texas (12/3/01)
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Pressler's 'A Hill on Which to Die' mailed to all convention pastors (12/3/01)
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Baptist Standard board warns of BP's reliability (11/12/01)
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SBTC celebrates growth, commends Baptist Press (11/5/01)
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Missouri requires affiliation with SBC, escrows funding for five institutions (11/5/01)
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Messengers affirm Adopted Budget, not 2000 Baptist Faith & Message (11/5/01)
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Park Cities pastor defends Buckner (10/29/01)
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Word & Way newspaper becomes fifth Missouri agency to change its charter (10/29/01)
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Rankin defends IMB against description by Parks (10/22/01)
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IMB regional leader asks missionaries to sign BF&M (10/22/01)
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BGCT still ranks on top in total gifts to SBC causes (10/22/01)
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Missourian's influence reaches N.C. (10/15/01)
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Missouri executive resigns, signaling convention's turn (10/15/01)
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Georgia executive threatens to 'shut down' women's meeting (10/15/01)
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SBTC leaders insist they're not recruiting (10/8/01)
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Buckner president calls SBTC and BP attack 'public relations terrorism' (10/8/01)
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Comparison of BGCT & SBTC budgets (10/1/01)
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Executive Board approves decreased BGCT budget (10/1/01)
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Executive board tables motion requiring statement on inerrancy (10/1/01)
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Southwestern theology school experiencing faculty turnover (9/24/01)
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One Missouri committee backs down on controversial recommendations (9/24/01)
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IMB trustees extend BF&M policy (9/17/010)
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Administrative Committee simplifies church giving form to 2 categories (9/17/01)
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Baptist Press wrong again on BGCT gifts to seminaries (9/10/01)
• Missouri onvention in turmoil as committees make sweeping change (8/20/01)
• Three NAMB administrators leave due to BF&M (8/13/01)
• 728 Texans went to New Orleans (8/6/01)
• Texas trustee of IMB sent to prison for fraud (8/6/01)
• Shurden examines CBF's "decade of destiny" (7/30/01)
• BF&M cited in crusade to oust Florida church (7/30/01)
• Texas Baptists Committed to focus on prayer, missions (7/30/01)
• Will the real fundamentalists please stand up? (7/23/01)
• Criswell College becomes first institution of SBTC (7/9/01)
• BP story inaccurate about Texas funds for seminaries
• Carter calls on "traditional" Baptists to move on (7/9/01)
• Merritt re-elected SBC president, defends convention's course (6/18/01)
• SBC turns back three tries to amend 2000 BF&M (6/18/01)
• Kentucky readies for showdown (6/4/01)
• Ad series seeks to correct record (6/4/01)
• Misions study gets favorable reception (5/28/01)
• Texas native resigns as IMB regional leader (5/28/01
• BGCT leaders denounce Baptist Press report
• Guidelines of Missouri nominating committee questioned (5/21/01)
• Two SBC leaders respond to report (5/21/01)
• Paper identitifies two Southwestern professors who son't sign (5/7/01)
• Eight of 11 SBC nomines are from SBTC (5/7/01)
• Baptist Press speculation proved innaccurate (5/7/01)
• Study Committee urges new negotiations with NAMB (5/7/01)
• BGCT missions study committee recommends modest changes (5/7/01)
• Answers to commonly asked questions about the BGCT (4/30/01)
• Church members given fraudulent facts (4/30/01)
• Southern Baptists of Texas lists affiliated churches (4/30/01)
• BGCT says churches misled by lies and distortions (4/30/01)
• First-quarter Cooperative Program giving in Texas shows mixed report (4/16/01)
• Texas seminaries still waiting for new funds as churches ponder choices (4/16/01)
• Annuity Board won't serve churches breaking ties with SBC (3/19/01)
• BGCT grew in 2000, despite loss of some churches (3/12/01)
• Southwestern approves budget with no projected lost funds from Texas (3/12/01)
• Two Southwestern faculty holding out on signing faith statement (3/12/01)
• BGCT committee won't recommend change in Texas funding for International Mission Board (3/5/01)
• CBF participants to vote on creating more specific membership policies (3/5/01)
• Faith statement not creedal, Hemphill says (2/26/01)
• "Hold the Baptist vision high," Wade tells Mainstream group (2/12/01)
• Mainstream Baptists taking shape as national network (2/12/01)
• Alternative convention wants ties to BGCT agencies (2/12/01)
• BGCT treasurer stands by statements (2/5/01)
• SBC appeals to churches to bypass BGCT-approved budget (1/29/01)
• IMB missionaries required to accept, but not sign, • Baptist Faith & Message (1/29/01)
• Southwestern Seminary profs almost finished signing Baptist Faith & Message (1/15/01)
• Texas Baptists Committed urges BGCT to divest income from SBC (1/15/01)
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News Articles 2000
• International Mission Board told not to worry about Texas (12/4/00)
• New cooperative giving options outlined (11/27/00)
• New state group tightens relationship to SBC (11/20/00)
• Complete coverage of the 2000 BGCT annual session in Corpus Christi (11/6/00)
• Numbers show Texas leaders continue to support SBC missions (10/30/00)
• 1995 memo notes SBC leaders' concern about Texas (10/30/00)
• Jimmy Carter "can no longer be associated" with SBC (10/30/00)
• Chapman and Wade differ over breakdown of last-minute talks (10/16/00)
• Golden Gate Seminary plans budget cut, blames BGCT (10/16/00)
• Integrity Committee assails SBC mailing & website (10/9/00)
• Ken Hemphill urges students to be messengers to BGCT, vote (10/9/00)
• International Mission Board trustees oppose BGCT proposal (10/9/00)
• Baylor University regents applaud BGCT proposals (10/2/00)
• Committee Chairman Bob Campbell calls claims against Texas study "ludicrous" (10/2/00)
• BGCT Executive Board approves budget changes (10/2/00)
• SBC Executive Committee responds to BGCT proposal (9/25/00)
• Directors of missions meet SBC leaders at Southwestern Seminary and plead for unity (9/25/00)
• Texas ministries need the support that could result from redirecting funds (9/25/00)
• SBC leaders say Texas can't change funding plan without destroying the Cooperative Program--and a package of stories regarding the BGCT funding-change proposal (9/18/00)
• Baptist Faith & Message "non-negotiable" at SBC seminaries (9/4/00)
• Vestal disputes Baptist Press reports, says Cooperative Baptist Fellowship never has supported homosexuality (7/31/00)
• Some question whether words put back in Baptist Faith & Message mean the same thing (7/17/00)
• SBC headed toward creedalism, Wade says, and Texas won't go (6/26/00)
• Baptists have debated creeds & confessions for years (6/26/00)
• Difference between creeds & confessions seen in application (6/26/00)
• What would Jesus do? What does Bible say? -- SBC '00 wrapup (6/19/00)
• SBC declines to create unity committee (6/19/00)
• Revised statement will guide employment (6/19/00)
• Vestal rebuts SBC language on women (6/12/00)
• Baptist Faith & Message changes touch on Bible, gender, sexuality (5/22/00)
• Wade and others from BGCT meet with SBC leadership in Fort Worth (4/17/00)
• Mohler criticizes Mullins' influence and doctrine of soul competency (4/17/00)
• … and nothing but the truth: A package of stories that examines the literature campaign aimed at maligning BGCT leadership (2/23/00)
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Speeches: Texts
• Charles Wade addresses the 2000 BGCT annual session in Corpus Christi (11/13/00)
• Bill Hendricks, former professor of theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, delivers an essay on Baptist faith and practice (7/31/00)
• Jim Denison, pastor of Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas, proposes how to end the Baptist battles (7/31/00)
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Speeches: Audio
• Three leaders -- Charles Wade, Clyde Glazener and Jim Denison -- address the 2000 Baptist General Convention of Texas annual session in Corpus Christi (10/30-31/00)
• Jeane Law, immediate past president of Woman's Missionary Union of Texas, discusses missions needs with the BGCT Executive Board
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Speeches: Video
• Two Texas Baptists -- Charles Wade and Anthony Sisemore -- speak from the floor of the 2000 SBC annual meeting regarding the revised Baptist Faith & Message.
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Reports
• Missions Review & Initiatives Committee (9/2/02)
• Report of the Mission-sending Agencies Study Committee to the BGCT Executive Board (5/7/01)
• Seminary study report available for download as a pdf file.
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Other Resources
Where your money goes -- chart (4/29/02)
What's the difference between the BGCT & the SBTC? -- chart (2/11/02)
Comparison of SBC receipts for fiscal year 2000-01--chart (10/22/01)
• Analysis of the Baptist Faith & Message 2000 by Russell Dilday (4/30/01)
• 2000 Baptist Faith & Message: A complete text of the document
• Side-by-side comparison of the 2000 Baptist Faith & Message and the amended 1963 BF&M and the 1925 BF&M
• States relate to BF&M: A chart detailing state convention actions regarding the 2000 Baptist Faith & Message (11/27/00)
• Giving Q&A: Commonly asked questions regarding the BGCT's new giving option (11/27/00)
• Where the money goes: A chart detailing the "Texas preferred" BGCT Cooperative Program budget, approved at the 2000 BGCT annual session (9/18/00)
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Editorials & Columns
2000
• BGCT giving form to respect church freedom (11/27/00)
• Churches "vote" on BGCT ministries (11/20/00)
• Texans have not "dismantled" the Cooperative Program (11/13/00)
• Annual session leads Texas Baptists to go forward (11/6/00)
• Decision made; history awaits (11/6/00)
• Whatever happens, love for Jesus compels Baptists (10/30/00)
• Ask God to bring Texas Baptists revival out of distress (10/23/00)
• Churches can "deal with this issue" (10/23/00)
• Virtues describe "the heart" of Texas Baptists' identity (10/16/00)
• Lose-lose trap threatens Texans (10/16/00)
• Ask God to bring Baptists a dose of "more sense" (10/9/00)
• Pray, pay attention as crucial decisions are made (10/2/00)
• Be a Baptist: Study issues and vote (10/2/00)
• Texas Baptists face options regarding difficult issues (9/25/00)
• Mission needs worthy of spotlight (9/25/00)
• Seek God's leadership concerning Baptist options (9/18/00)
• Look past sadness toward hope (9/18/00)
• Texas convention targeted by Southern Baptist leaders (9/11/00)
• False choices trap Baptists in corner (9/11/00)
• Constitution directs Texas Baptists to work together (8/14/00)
• Lessons from Paul and Barnabas (8/14/00)
• Investment in Texas mission field yields eternal rewards (8/7/00)
• Budget reflects matters of the heart (8/7/00)
• "Will the BGCT split from the SBC?" (7/10/00)
• Jesus is the standard by which we interpret Scripture (6/26/00)
• Seek to preserve true, abiding Baptist principles (6/19/00)
• Debate distills decades of division (6/19/00)
• Doctrines of Baptist identity not included in proposal (6/12/00)
• Proposal may widen Baptist divide (5/29/00)
• Do we need slaves and a pope? (4/17/00)
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