DALLAS — “It is not enough to say we believe every word of the Bible to be true to be a Baptist,” according to Jim Richards, executive director of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention.
Richards made the declaration in his column, “Speaking the Truth in Love,” in the April–May issue of the Southern Baptist Texan magazine. The magazine and a related newspaper are published by the breakaway Texas Baptist convention.
The Baptist Faith and Message as revised by the Southern Baptist Convention in 2000 is the answer to this theological problem, Richards wrote, because it “leaves no wiggle room for neoorthodoxy.”
“The Baptist Faith and Message statement 2000 is the final expression of the conservative resurgence,” he added, referencing the movement that gained control of the SBC in the 1980s and ’90s and has reshaped its agencies and institutions.
Richards’ column is devoted to defending the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message against criticism from the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
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