THE OPPORTUNITIES OF DENOMINATIONAL WORK

Recovering a Vision for Baptist Collaboration in the Twenty-First Century

National Baptist Convention gathering early 20th century.

Ask a pastor why his church belongs to no association, no convention, no fellowship of accountability, and he will often answer with the language of purity: we do not want the bureaucracy, the politics, the diluted doctrine, the compromise. There is real wisdom buried in that instinct. But there i…