Comments on: Baptists Going Green… http://www.toward-the-goal.net/2008/03/10/baptists-going-green/ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:20:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John http://www.toward-the-goal.net/2008/03/10/baptists-going-green/comment-page-1/#comment-3923 John Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:45:40 +0000 http://www.toward-the-goal.net/2008/03/10/baptists-going-green/#comment-3923 Interesting. I'm not surprised their response falls back to autonomy. Getting Baptists to agree about anything, much less something controversial like global warming / climate change, is quite difficult. Interesting.

I’m not surprised their response falls back to autonomy. Getting Baptists to agree about anything, much less something controversial like global warming / climate change, is quite difficult.

]]> By: Tony Kummer http://www.toward-the-goal.net/2008/03/10/baptists-going-green/comment-page-1/#comment-3922 Tony Kummer Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:36:08 +0000 http://www.toward-the-goal.net/2008/03/10/baptists-going-green/#comment-3922 I just read Richard Land's response. Their website was acting weird so I pulled it up via the RSS feed. Here is what he said: <em> “Given the fact the Convention has officially addressed the issues of creation care and environmental stewardship in its 2006 and 2007 Conventions through resolutions adopted by the Convention’s duly elected messengers (see links below to view cited SBC resolutions), the ERLC does not agree that Southern Baptists have been ‘too timid’ in addressing these issues. “Southern Baptists, collectively and individually, jealously guard their independence and autonomy. They reserve to themselves the right to decide through Convention action what the Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy positions are to be. The ERLC will continue to share the officially adopted positions of the Convention with public policy makers and the media. Thus, the ERLC has declined to endorse ‘A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change’ in its present form.” </em> I just read Richard Land’s response. Their website was acting weird so I pulled it up via the RSS feed. Here is what he said:


“Given the fact the Convention has officially addressed the issues of creation care and environmental stewardship in its 2006 and 2007 Conventions through resolutions adopted by the Convention’s duly elected messengers (see links below to view cited SBC resolutions), the ERLC does not agree that Southern Baptists have been ‘too timid’ in addressing these issues.

“Southern Baptists, collectively and individually, jealously guard their independence and autonomy. They reserve to themselves the right to decide through Convention action what the Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy positions are to be. The ERLC will continue to share the officially adopted positions of the Convention with public policy makers and the media. Thus, the ERLC has declined to endorse ‘A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change’ in its present form.”

]]> By: Southern Baptist Environmentalism Initative Movement | SBC Voices http://www.toward-the-goal.net/2008/03/10/baptists-going-green/comment-page-1/#comment-3919 Southern Baptist Environmentalism Initative Movement | SBC Voices Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:52:15 +0000 http://www.toward-the-goal.net/2008/03/10/baptists-going-green/#comment-3919 [...] John Stickley raises some concerns about the wording of the declaration. He writes: Here’s my suggestion. If you’ve got no “special revelation”, “special training”, or the like that allows you to assess “whether global warming is occurring and, if it is occurring, whether people are causing it”… stick to the theological issues and principles that lead Christians to a position of environmental stewardship, and leave climate change out of your statements. [...] [...] John Stickley raises some concerns about the wording of the declaration. He writes: Here’s my suggestion. If you’ve got no “special revelation”, “special training”, or the like that allows you to assess “whether global warming is occurring and, if it is occurring, whether people are causing it”… stick to the theological issues and principles that lead Christians to a position of environmental stewardship, and leave climate change out of your statements. [...]

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