Burleson Draws Line in the Sand

Wade Burleson, the blogging trustee at the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board, was at the center of controversy again at a recent IMB Board meeting. This time Burleson says, "I've drawn a line in the sand. We must drop the narrowing of the parameters."

Burleson and other young SBC pastors are chaffing at the lack of "free and open debate" within the SBC.

Sooner or later, the scales are going to fall from the eyes of Burleson and other young SBC pastors and they are going to realize that from the beginning the controversy in the SBC has always been about power. Tightening parameters has always been a means to end. It's a way for the ruling cabal to increase their power.

Unless Burleson and others are possessed of an inordinate will-to-power of their own, the best thing to do is walk away. It's about twenty years too late to save the SBC.