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...when he was thinking of running for the Georgia senate, he consulted with a Baptist minister who was visiting Carter's mother. As Carter recalls the incident: "The pastor strongly advised me not to go into such a discredited profession. We had a rather heated argument, and he finally asked, 'If you want to be of service to other people, why don't you go into the ministry or into some honorable special service work?' " Replied Carter: "How would you like to be the pastor in a church with 80,000 members?" These days, Jimmy Carter is thinking in terms...
Carter is not a strict Evangelical. When he was Governor, he outraged some Southern Baptist clergymen by calling Georgia's ban on Sunday liquor sales hypocritical because many people patronized bootleggers on the Sabbath. One of his first acts was to end the pompous religious service that his predecessor as Governor, Lester Maddox, held in the state house every morning. Carter thought that the service was pointless...
Lindsell cites the Lutheran Church -Missouri Synod as a case where "neoliberals" nearly moved an Evangelical denomination away from its traditions before conservatives regained power (thus pushing the church to the brink of schism). Lindsell sees trouble ahead in his own church body, the 12.5-million-member Southern Baptist Convention. Though no conclusive data are available, Lindsell claims that "90% of the people in the pews believe in biblical infallibility." Even so, he sees the infection of liberalism "spreading steadily...
Judgement. American premier at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass Ave. Thurs.-Fri. at 8 p.m. till...
Sometime Lay Evangelist Jimmy Carter is not the only member of his Southern Baptist family to plunge into religious work. His younger sister Ruth Carter Stapleton, 46, has been on the Gospel trail for nine years both preaching and practicing what she calls "healing of memories." She works not only with her fellow Protestants but with Roman Catholics as well; 5,000 of them attended one of her healing sessions in Atlantic City last October. She also conducted spiritual workshops in 75 other U.S. cities last year, as well as in Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and England...