“Religious conviction is the only relevant characteristic that statistically differentiates these highly committed donors from other respondents.”
Cygnus Applied Research
A survey by the Chicago-based research firm indicates 43 percent of actively religious respondents remain commited to giving in a tough economy, compared to 23 percent of those who are not religious at all. (RNS)
“[Southern Baptists] have become bloated and bureauratic. It is easier to move some things through the federal government than the Southern Baptist Convention. Overlap and duplication in our associations, state and national conventions are strangling us. We waste time and resources and many are fed up. The rally cry of the Conservative Resurgence was, ‘We will not give our monies to liberal institutions.’ Now the cry of the Great Commission Resurgence is, ‘We will not give our monies to bloated bureaucracies’.”
Daniel Akin
The president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., spoke in the school’s chapel about needed changes in the SBC. (BP)