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MAINSTREAM MESSENGER Vol. 1, No. 2 September 1998Hearing the Message A leader of the BGCO told me that the mass mailings to pastors and deacons by Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists were "not well received by the majority." Sorry, that wasn't news. That wasn't surprising. That wasn't disappointing. My biblical response comes from Acts 17:32. Paul had just completed his Mars Hill sermon. "When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered." No Oklahoma Baptist -- Mainstream, Conservative, Fundamentalist -- would doubt the truth of Paul's sermon. The obvious conclusion: a cynical audience's rejection of a message casts no negative light on the message itself. The Mainstream message stands on its own; sneering at it casts judgment, instead, on those who reject it. Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists will continue to speak the truth as we believe God leads us, as the Bible teaches us, and as we learned in Southern Baptist Training Unions for the middle half of this century. We believe we do not cry into a totally unresponsive wilderness. We depend on that open-minded, thinking minority who, like the other part of Paul's Athenian audience, may say, "We want to hear you again on this subject." (NIV) Richard D. Kahoe |
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