JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — When the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee voted to recommend that the SBC withdraw from the Baptist World Alliance (BWA), it was the right decision, said Paul Negrut, president of the Romanian Baptist Union.
Negrut, who has led Romanian Baptists since 1999, said he has been monitoring liberalism in the BWA for more than a decade. He was serving as vice president of the Romanian Baptist Union when the former president, Vasile Talos, took steps to counter liberalism’s influence.
“The Romanian Baptist convention is conservative to the marrow of its bone,” said Negrut, who also is president of Emmanuel University in Ordea. “For a long time, the Romanian Baptist Convention did not endorse the European Baptist Federation or the Baptist World Alliance doctrines or practices,” Negrut said.
“More precisely, in the 1990s, when the European Baptist Federation appointed a lady pastor from Sweden as its president, the Romanian Baptists pulled out” from the EBF, Negrut said.
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