(01-25-2023 11:56 PM)inutech Wrote:  

(01-25-2023 07:30 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-25-2023 06:40 PM)inutech Wrote:  

(01-25-2023 06:09 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Baylor is Southern Baptist

Baylor is associated with the state convention (err, one of them - the BGCT, not the SBC).

Its seminary was founded very much as an alternative to the SBC seminaries (including the one right up the road from TCU).

Thank you for that correction. What does the GC stand for? General Convention? Baptists see themselves as independent and most churches determine their own polity. It's actually very Baptist of Baylor not to affiliate with the Southern Baptist Convention as that organization does issue some guidelines which would be considered an impingement on the right of each local church to decide polity.

Yes, Baptist General Convention of Texas.

But Baylor was always tied to the state convention (like most Baptist schools). The SBC has six seminaries and a partner one in Canada but even the Baptist schools that are still Baptist (as opposed to your University of Chicagos and Wake Forests and Browns) were mostly created by the state conventions. Higher ed (other than the seminaries) isn't a role for the whole convention.

Truett (the seminary at Baylor) was founded in the early 90s during a period of turmoil in the SBC seminaries. Meant to be an alternative.

SBC itself doesn't really issue edicts. It's opt in for the most part. Most people sitting in the pews barely know much about the various resolutions that come from the (literal) annual convention.

First Baptist in Auburn opted out of the SBC because of their requirement over some declarations of their stances on certain issues. It seemed to them to be more of a creed which is anathema to most Baptists. 30 years ago no such issues had arisen at the local church level though they were beginning to be topics in seminaries.