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Texas Baptist Forum_11204
Posted: 1/09/04
TEXAS BAPTIST FORUM:
Christian worldviewWhen I hear someone speak of a need to return to a “Christian worldview,” I shudder. The concept sounds good but is interpreted in too many ways to be helpful to the Christian community.
E-mail the editor at marvknox@baptiststandard.com Usually, it is a term loaded with political overtones, promoted by those who have little or no Baptist orientation and belief. It tends toward being a dark cloud seeded with crystals of thought from formerly state-sanctioned church movements. The problem is that although it looks good, the rain of spiritual reform never reaches the ground.
Many of those who perpetuate this concept come from denominations that were birthed as state churches, and their desire is to create some kind of “theocracy” that unfortunately is really government by their own theology. If enacted, such a government would make the outside of man subject to some standard of conformity but do nothing for the heart of man.
01/09/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Joy multiplied with nursing home shopping network_11204
Posted: 1/09/04
The Woman's Missionary Union at First Baptist Church in Wimberly multiplied Christmas joy for nursing home residents by setting up a free “store” where residents picked out gifts again this year. Joy multiplied with nursing home shopping network
By George Henson
Staff Writer
WIMBERLEY–The elderly woman's eyes lit up as she saw the baby doll on top of a pile of plush animals. She scooted across the room as quickly as her paddling feet could pull her wheelchair, never taking her eyes from her prize.
01/09/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Tidbits_11204
Posted: 1/09/04
As Kara Lea Oliver receives her degree from East Texas Baptist University, her family honors the letter of a request to hold applause until the ceremony’s end by silently holding homemade signs. Oliver graduated summa cum laude. Texas Tidbits
DBU names missions professor. Southwestern Seminary missions professor Robert Garrett is joining the faculty at Dallas Baptist University. As the first professor of missions at DBU, he will develop the university's missions studies curriculum at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, as well as coordinate student missions programs.
Robert Garrett A former missionary to Argentina, Garrett was a professor at the Seminario Internacional Teologico Bautista in Buenos Aires from 1981 to 1994. He served as a guest professor at Southwestern Seminary in 1994, prior to his election to the faculty the following year. He served as director of the seminary's World Missions Center from 1996 to 1999 and has held the George W. Bottoms Chair of World Missions since 1999.
ETBU graduates 69. Lynn New, psychology professor and dean of the School of Natural and Social Sciences at East Texas Baptist University, delivered the charge to the 69 graduates at the school's commencement ceremony last month.
Baylor social work grads get high marks. According to the Texas State Board of Social Work, graduates from the Baylor School of Social Work Bachelor of Arts program achieved a 100 percent passing rate on its licensing exam. Graduates from the Baylor Master of Social Work program achieved an 88 percent passing rate. The overall passing rate for Texas schools is 69 percent.
HBU celebrates Founders' Day. Voddie Baucum was the featured speaker at Houston Baptist University's Founders' Day convocation last month. The event also featured the debut of "Christ is Our Foundation," a hymn composed by Ann Gebuhr, music professor and director of the HBU School of Music.
01/09/2004 - By John Rutledge
Jamie Long to Fellowship Church in Lubbock as minister to children. 
