Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wielding a pistol. Jerry was a rowdy in his school years, drove cars at 100 m.p.h. and hung around outside a neighborhood cafe late at night with his buddies stopping traffic and taunting motorists. When he proposed marriage to Macel Pate, who played the piano at the Park Avenue Baptist Church, the girl's mother was crestfallen that she had taken up with a Falwell...
...exact message: It was possible to have a personal relationship with God through Christ. Thrilled by the words, Falwell took the invitation to come forward to the altar and be born again. He bought a Bible the next day. After graduating from a Missouri Bible college as an ordained Baptist minister, he started the Thomas Road Church in Lynchburg and began to broadcast his services on radio. Within a year his membership jumped from 35 to nearly a thousand. Falwell was a smooth storyteller and his blunt, biting tongue gave his Fundamentalist listeners a new sense of confidence. He thundered...
...conservative Protestant seminaries analyze evangelistic strategies. Personal contacts are stressed. Says Catholic Archbishop Robert Sanchez of Santa Fe, N. Mex.: "They're out there ringing doorbells and going into people's homes. That's hard to beat." The Rev. Tony Arango, pastor of Florida's growing East Hialeah Baptist Church, whose membership is heavily Cuban, says, "Our witnessing is done by all our members. We believe in the aggressive approach...
Political as well as religious issues deeply divide the S.B.C. Stanley was a founder of Moral Majority, the religious-right political lobby. Honeycutt says that this movement violates the Baptist heritage of church-state separation. Another angry moderate, the Rev. James Dunn, runs the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs in Washington, sponsored by the S.B.C. and eight smaller denominations. Dunn's job may ultimately be in danger because Dunn's Baptist lobby is at odds with Fundamentalists in the S.B.C., who demand constitutional amendments on school prayer and abortion...
Caught in the middle of the leadership struggles are the congregations, who worship in settings ranging from clapboard country chapels in the Appalachians to the sprawling four-block complex of Criswell's 25,000-member First Baptist Church in Dallas. A great number of these ordinary members at the S.B.C. meeting seemed to want to put an end to the internal struggle. Remarked Randy Newsome of Corbin, Va.: "I'm tired of hearing all this name calling. It's time to get on with our business." Al Miller of Chattanooga agreed that 99% of Southern Baptists "just want...