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Southern Baptist Convention Primed To Grow Universalistic

Last week, the LifeWay Ridgecrest Conference Center hosted a conference on Reformed theology (commonly known as 'Calvinism') and the Southern Baptist Convention, in Ridgecrest, NC. Ed Stetzer, director of LifeWay Research, presented startling statistics in his opening address to the "Building Bridges: Southern Baptists and Calvinism" conference -- a three-day conference sponsored jointly by Founders Ministries and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, with approximately 550 attendees.

These statistics, compiled from two surveys -- a 2006 LifeWay Research study and a 2007 North American Mission Board survey (for their Center for Missional Research) -- have been making headlines this week, in Protestant (and other religious) periodicals as well as on the internet. So far the big news has seemed to be that Baptist seminary graduates going on to work as pastors for Southern Baptist Congregations, are three times as likely as the general population of Baptist ministers to affirm "five-point Calvinism". (Roughly 30 percent of recent pastoral graduates, per the 2007 NAMB survey results; compared to 10 percent of all active pastors in the SBC, per the 2006 LWR survey results. Ed Stetzer's power-point presentation can be found here. (http://christiancadre.blogspot.com/2007/07/heart-of-freedom.html) has a reading audience in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas. His recent Thanksgiving sermon for the Cadre Journal, available here, (http://www.prweb.com/releases/Christian/Fantasy_Novel/prweb570681.htm). Jason recently donated 500 full production hardback dust-jacketed copies of Cry of Justice to the World Fantasy 2007 convention in Saratoga, NY; and has sent another 210 promotional copies to the annual film festival of the influential media news/review site Ain't It Cool News (http://www.lifeway.com/lwc/) The company also owns and operates 140 LifeWay Christian Stores in 24 states, as well as two of the largest Christian conference centers in the country. It was established in Nashville, TN, in 1891.

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