Stories tagged with: conservative resurgence

• Winfred Moore, two-time SBC pres. nominee, dies

  by Staff, posted Wednesday, May 13, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

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  AMARILLO, Texas (BP) -- Winfred Moore, a Texas pastor and two-time moderate nominee for the Southern Baptist Convention presidency, died May 8 in Amarillo, Texas. He was 95.

  Pastor of First Baptist Church in Amarillo from 1959-89, Moore was defeated in SBC presidential elections in 1985 by Charles Stanley and 1986 by Adrian Rogers during conservatives' battle to gain control of SBC entity trustee boards. Moore believed requiring "doctrinal uniformity as a prerequisite for missions" was neither "Baptistic" nor conducive to reaching the world for Christ, as he put it in a 1986 statement announcing his willingness to be nominated for the presidency. Read More

• Francis Schaeffer 'indispensable' to SBC

  by David Roach, posted Thursday, October 30, 2014 (9 years ago)

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- The late Francis Schaeffer was known to pick up the phone during the early years of the Southern Baptist Convention's conservative resurgence. Paige Patterson knew to expect a call from Schaeffer around Christmas with the question, "You're not growing weary in well-doing are you?" Read More