Decades of painful conservative-moderate fights. Stagnant baptism rates. Membership malaise. Surveying the state of the Southern Baptist Convention, seminary president Danny Akin can sum it all up in just six words.
“Business as usual,” he said, “is not working.”
The SBC membership fell 40,000. That’s less than a percentage point, basically a statistical push. With natural flux, that means a whole lot of people are becoming members. The sky isn’t falling, but the SBC is right to rethink and regroup. In contrast, the TEClub is falling an order of magnitude faster and we have Ms Schori poo-poo-ing the matter.