|
MAINSTREAM MESSENGER Vol. 2, No. 5 December 1999 Editor: Bruce PrescottPost-Convention Supplement
Register Online Votes for Baptist Issues Parliamentary maneuvers by the leadership at BGCO prevented most Mainstream Baptists from discussing and voting on the resolutions (see November 1999 issue) we presented to the convention. We believe Fundamentalists have good reason to fear open discussion on these issues. Most Baptists are opposed to the revision of the 1963 Baptist Faith & Message statement and most are opposed to Calvinism. We also believe that more Baptists than the few who are able to attend a convention as messengers should be allowed to vote on such issues. We encourage you to register and vote for or against our resolutions. You can also register a vote for or against the other resolutions that were presented to the convention. Click here to vote on the resolutions. Regretfully, the resolutions committee also refused to pass on to the convention our Resolution Affirming the Unlimited Atonement. When I made a motion to do this from the floor, I said that “Mainstream Baptists are not opposed to open debate on the issues, we think that open and honest discussion is healthy — it is the Baptist way.” My motion was opposed by Stephen Gniech, pastor of Big Creek Baptist Church in Heavener, OK. Mr. Gniech objected to my asking the Baptist Messenger to print articles on both sides of the issue. He questioned my right to do so since he had sent me letters criticizing the positions of Mainstream Baptists and I had failed to print any of them. When the messengers at the meeting applauded him, loudly roared their approval of his objection and soundly defeated my motion, I knew that I had seriously misjudged the stature that Mr. Gniech has among the Baptist pastors of Oklahoma. Duly chastened by this experience, I have determined that Mr. Gniech, the champion of Baptist Fundamentalism in Oklahoma, will have his say. We are in the process of locating the voluminous and verbose correspondence we have received from him this past year and will publish them in toto for all the world to see on our website. We encourage all our readers to read Mr. Gniech’s letters, and then cast a vote as to whether this section of our website should be labeled a “Hall of Fame” or a “Hall of Shame.” BP |
|
Online since April 7, 1999
E- mail questions or comments about this web site to bprescott@mainstreambaptists.orgCopyright © 1999-2003 MAINSTREAM OKLAHOMA BAPTISTS P.O. Box 6371 Norman, OK 73070-6371 (405) 329-2266.
|