SELLING THE SOUTHERN BAPTISTS

Here in Arizona, it's best if they don't call themselves Baptists.

S. Baptist churches are booming here
8 new Tucson congregations 'planted,' minus Baptist name
By Stephanie Innes
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona Published: 03.10.2007

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The new churches appear neither Southern nor Baptist, though, with names like "The Journey," "City Edge," "The Element" and "Epic" — no mention of 'Baptist.'

By removing the word "Baptist" and creating non-traditional places of worship, Southern Baptist leaders hope to bring the disaffected back into the fold with the goal of welcoming them into a non-threatening church setting while creating small communities and social networks in the process.

That unchanging message, Ebert said, is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the belief that the Bible in its original manuscript is the infallible, inerrant word of God.


Different name, same stupidity. I wonder how they would respond to a question about the two different Creation stories or the two different sets of 10 commandments?