Crisis in the Southern Baptist Convention: On Saddleback's Ordination of Women
Why Female Ordination Threatens to Divide America's Largest Protestant Denomination by Lee Enochs " I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen" (Martin Luther in his Reply to the Diet of Worms , April 18, 1521) As a conservative political writer I do not generally focus on the latest news facing American Evangelicalism, but from time to time, I feel obliged to address certain doctrinal and church related issues pertaining to Christianity in America that have national implications, especially if it effects my own denomination--the Southern Baptist Convention. I have been a Southern Baptist all of my life (ever since I prayed to receive Christ as a young boy after hearing the Gospel at a Southern Baptist Church). My Southern Baptist and Evangelical Christian faith is very important and precious to me....