Reply #37: Southern Baptist churches have a lot of variety among them....

[Lisa0825]

I belonged to Southern Baptist Churches in Waco, OKC, and Dallas which were very moderate. All had women as associate pastors or pastors at various points in their timeline. All had Sunday School classes which included classes that discussed current issues and how to relate to them with your faith. We talked about abortion, the death penalty, etc. Now I am in the Houston area, and I have not been able to find a nice, moderate SBC, but I go denomination-shopping anyway. I believe in going to whichever church I feel at home at, regardless of denomination.

Anyway, bottom line is all SBCs are NOT created equally.


edited to add:
This is one reason why there has been a lot of fighting within the Southern Baptist Convention, and the Baptist General Convention of Texas. At least one of my former churches left the Southern Baptist Convention, and joinged the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, which was basically a place for moderate churches that wished to leave the SBC, rather than keep trying to fight it out.