tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5328993133397649838.post1475619061010783193..comments2023-10-25T09:45:40.318-04:00Comments on The Politics of the Cross Resurrected: A Terrific Ministry in Our ChurchCraig Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10209954891388905090noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5328993133397649838.post-22718003761572281322009-10-02T10:14:24.551-04:002009-10-02T10:14:24.551-04:00A. S. Tatum,
I'm interested to hear of your ex...A. S. Tatum,<br />I'm interested to hear of your experience. Of course the caricatures have some basis in fact and conservative Evangelical churches are not perfect. But in my case, I have found that a conservative Baptist congregation has exhibited much more grace and spiriutal depth than people who only know the stereotypes can ever imagine. Glad to hear you have experienced something similar.Craig Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10209954891388905090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5328993133397649838.post-71278897101498017122009-10-01T18:55:31.484-04:002009-10-01T18:55:31.484-04:00Craig,
I just began reading your blog. I am a s...Craig, <br /><br />I just began reading your blog. I am a seminary student in a "moderate" Baptist seminary in North Carolina and most of my ministry has been in mainline churches (although I am and have long been a Baptist). I spent a few months as an interim youth minister at a Southern Baptist Church (much more conservative than my background thus far) and these days I find myself missing that community more than anything. I found a church that was more welcoming, more mission focused and - as you say - growing. When I say that this church is mission focused, I mean that there were poorer families in this church who took out second mortgages and lines of credit on their homes to help finance mission and service trips to Ecuador and the Ukraine. I have found little such generosity and christ-likeness in any of the more affluent mainline churches I have served. Of course, caricatures exist among true, blue "Southern Bpatists" (take, for example, Paige Patterson's recent "Take the Hill" antics at Southwestern Seminary in Texas). But I do believe that there is a growing movement among "catholic evangelicals" that seeks to call the church to fuller obedience and an embodiment of a cruciform life of service an ministry. Thanks for your reflections! A true encouragement, indeed.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15421447380225473152noreply@blogger.com