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  New SBC president willing to go to great lengths to increase baptisms_62804

  Posted: 6/25/04

  New SBC president willing to go
  to great lengths to increase baptisms

  By Marv Knox

  Editor

  INDIANAPOLIS–New Southern Baptist Convention President Bobby Welch pledged to go to great lengths–literally–to encourage the SBC to baptize a million people each year.

  06/25/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Welch wins contested presidential election_62804

  Posted: 6/25/04

  Welch wins contested presidential election

  By Marv Knox

  Editor

  INDIANAPOLIS–Bobby Welch, a Florida pastor known for his evangelistic zeal, won the first contested Southern Baptist Convention presidential election in a decade.

  06/25/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Bush assures Southern Baptists he will defend traditional view of marriage_62804

  Posted: 6/25/04

  Southern Baptist Convention messengers greet a satellite message from President Bush with sustained applause and repeated ovations.

  Bush assures Southern Baptists he will
  defend traditional view of marriage

  By Steve DeVane

  North Carolina Biblical Recorder

  INDIANAPOLIS–President Bush promised messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting he would “defend the sanctity of marriage against activist courts.”

  06/25/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Patterson’s charges ‘outrageous,’ American Baptist leaders maintain_62804

  Posted: 6/25/04

  Patterson's charges 'outrageous,'
  American Baptist leaders maintain

  By Trennis Henderson

  (Kentucky) Western Recorder

  INDIANAPOLIS (ABP)–Paige Patterson's assessment of the American Baptist Churches USA's stand on homosexuality is “completely outrageous,” declared ABC General Secretary Roy Medley.

  06/25/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  ‘Conservative resurgence’ leaders swap 25 years worth of war stories_62804

  Posted: 6/25/04

  Paul Pressler and Paige Patterson were among those who reminisced during a "conservative resurgence reunion" the night before the start of the 2004 SBC annual meeting.

  'Conservative resurgence' leaders
  swap 25 years worth of war stories

  By Steve DeVane

  North Carolina Biblical Recorder

  INDIANAPOLIS (ABP)–An architect of the “conservative resurgence” in the Southern Baptist Convention acknowledged that in the heat of battle during the denominational controversy, he and his colleagues considered a proposal to split the six Southern Baptist Convention seminaries with moderates.

  06/25/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  SBC turns down appeal for full-scale public school exodus_62804

  Posted: 6/25/04

  SBC turns down appeal for full-scale public school exodus

  By Greg Warner

  Associated Baptist Press

  INDIANAPOLIS (ABP)–Southern Baptists adopted resolutions lamenting America's “cultural drift … toward secularization” and urging Christians to vote according to “biblical values,” but they stopped short of calling for a full-scale withdrawal from public schools.

  06/25/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Battle for the Bible won; time for SBC to return to normal, Chapman says_62804

  Posted: 6/25/04

  Battle for the Bible won; time for
  SBC to return to normal, Chapman says

  By Trennis Henderson

  Kentucky Western Recorder

  INDIANAPOLIS–Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Southern Baptist Convention's “conservative resurgence,” Morris Chapman declared, “The crusade phase of the conservative resurgence has passed.”

  06/25/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Southern Baptist Convention rejects name change proposal_62804

  Posted: 6/25/04

  Southern Baptist Convention rejects name change proposal

  By Jennifer Davis Rash

  The Alabama Baptist

  INDIANAPOLIS–Southern Baptists will remain Southern Baptists.

  06/25/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Convention preacher issues challenge to rebuild crumbling spiritual walls_62804

  Posted: 6/25/04

  Steve Gaines, pastor of First Baptist Church of Gardendale, Ala., preached the convention sermon.

  Convention preacher issues challenge
  to rebuild crumbling spiritual walls

  By Lonnie Wilkey

  Tennessee Baptist & Reflector

  INDIANAPOLIS–Alabama pastor Steve Gaines challenged messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention to rebuild spiritual walls that have crumbled in the United States.

  06/25/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Preaching at Pastors’ Conference, Patterson laments lack of baptisms_62804

  Posted: 6/25/04

  Preaching at Pastors' Conference,
  Patterson laments lack of baptisms

  INDIANAPOLIS–With “Jesus Came Preaching” as their theme, Southern Baptist leaders came preaching during the 2004 Pastors' Conference in Indianapolis.

  Paige Patterson, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, reminded Southern Baptists that since the “conservative resurgence” began in 1979, the annual baptism numbers have not increased.

  “And we have baptized mostly our own, many of them for the second time,” he said. “Many of us are guilty of the infant baptism we used to criticize everyone else for.”

  06/25/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Convention asks New Orleans Seminary to make the SBC its sole member_62804

  Posted: 6/25/04

  Convention asks New Orleans
  Seminary to make the SBC its sole member

  By Bill Webb

  Missouri Word & Way

  INDIANAPOLIS–Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting voted by a 2-1 margin to “respectfully request” that trustees of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary amend the school's charter, naming the Southern Baptist Convention as the seminary's “sole member.”

  06/25/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Gay activists unfairly lay claim to civil rights mantle, African-Americans say_62804

  Posted: 6/25/04

  Robert Anderson, president of the National African American Fellowship.

  Gay activists unfairly lay claim to civil
  rights mantle, African-Americans say

  By Karen L. Willoughby

  Baptist Press

  INDIANAPOLIS (BP)–African-American Christians need to stand against same-sex marriage, the president of the National African American Fellowship said.

  06/25/2004 - By John Rutledge