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Southern Baptist Convention: Pastors
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Comment: This is what every Bible-believing Southern Baptist pastor should do. "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you." (II Corinthians 6:17) There is a growing movement of separation from the Southern Baptist Convention in obedience to the Word of God. The following announcement appeared in Blu-Print:
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In selecting Huckabee, a Southern Baptist pastor, those Christian conservative voters knew what they were voting for -- and now it's time that Jews ... know about some of Huckabee's fundamentalist positions. Continue.
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As is true of most Baptists, Southern Baptists' typical form of government is Congregationalist: each local church is autonomous, without formal lines of responsibility to organizational levels of higher authority. Deacons of each church are elected by the congregation. In some Baptist congregations, deacons function much like a board of directors or executive committee authorized to make important decisions although these congregations typically retain the right to vote on major decisions such as purchasing or selling property, large spending and the hiring or firing of pastors and other paid ministers.
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