Southern Baptists in Oklahoma Continue Fighting

The Oklahoma Gazette has published a story entitled the "Baptist Brouhaha" about the continuing conflict between conservatives in the Southern Baptist Convention.

The article quotes from the blog of Dennis Newkirk, pastor of Henderson Hills Baptist Church in Edmond and cites a post that is no longer on Newkirk's blog which said,

"We believe that a few Baptist leaders have taken it upon themselves to violate our church's autonomy and independence by their timing of anti-proposal publications and resolutions."

Such violations of church autonomy are not unusual in Southern Baptist life in Oklahoma. A trustee on the Executive Board of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma and a former president of the SBC unsuccessfully employed similar tactics when First Baptist Church of Oklahoma City was making a decision over whether to leave the Southern Baptist Convention.