Does EKG have a heartbeat? (8-11-04)

In a BP story yesterday Ken Hemphill says "EKG (Empowering Kingdom Growth) is a process of spiritual renewal," not a program. I find that hard to believe.

Hemphill is the official "strategist" for the SBC's EKG. "Programs" need strategists who create a "vision" and work to implement them. Spiritual renewal, on the other hand, depends upon the work of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit, like the wind, "blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes." (John 3:8)

Perhaps SBC leaders wouldn't feel so abandoned spiritually if they had not turned a deaf ear to God's Holy Spirit. In the 2000 BF&M Southern Baptists presumed to tell God how the wind of His Spirit should blow, where it must come from, where it ought to go, and that it better sound masculine.