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Article: The Betrayal ... Of Southern Baptist Missionaries by Southern Baptist Leaders, 1979-2004.(Book review)
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- Baptist History and Heritage
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- March 22, 2007
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The Betrayal ... Of Southern Baptist Missionaries by Southern Baptist Leaders, 1979-2004. By John W. Merritt. Published by the author, 2004, 215 pages.
John W. Merritt served as a Southern Baptist missionary for thirty-four years. His passion to serve and his commitment to Christ led him to write this disturbing book. The book is disturbing because it deals with one of the more unbelievable aspects of the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention: the betrayal of its main focus, the missionaries.
The missionary enterprise has always been the SBC's cornerstone of operations. Merritt offered a brief overview of Southern Baptist history ...