2010 Annual Meeting of Texas Baptists
by Former BGCT Presidents

(originally published 9/8/2010 on Texas Baptists Committed blog)

As former presidents of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, we know well the important work that goes on each year at the Annual Meeting. This year will be no different as several key matters will come before the messengers.  The 2011 Budget as well as membership of every committee and of institutional boards will Read more . . .

Classic Baptists on Conscience
by Bruce Prescott, Executive Director, Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists

(originally published 9/8/2010 on Texas Baptists Committed blog)

Louis Mauldin, in his book The Classic Baptist Heritage of Personal Truth, provides a valuable summary of the understandings of conscience among the earliest Baptists: General and Particular Baptists disagree over the impact of sin upon the natural conscience, which is comprised of reason, the will, and communication. General Baptists see conscience as marred by Read more . . .