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Article: Georgia Baptists affirm new faith statement.(Brief Article)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- November 22, 2000
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Disagreeing with a famous follow Baptist, delegates to the Georgia Baptist Convention affirmed the new faith statement of the Southern Baptist Convention at their annual meeting.
Former President Jimmy Carter, who attends a church in Plains, Georgia, announced in October that he could no longer be associated with the nation's largest Protestant denomination after the revamped Baptist Faith and Message was adopted in June. Carter, who remains a Baptist deacon and Sunday school teacher, called it "an increasingly rigid creed" and hoped to influence the state convention's vote on the statement.
But apparently a majority of the 3,400 delegates, meeting ...