Ed Stetzer has a great article over at Between The Times where he discusses the differences in today’s society and how we have moved away from a “tribal” culture which has largely been the glue that has held the SBC together. Stetzer believes, “we must look for something else to be the gravitational pull of our cooperation since methodology no longer has that ability.”

Unfortunately, he got the answer wrong — saying,

The Baptist Faith and Message is our confessional consensus. Formulated and approved by the convention, it should fix the boundary for churches and entities that call themselves Southern Baptist. . . . If indeed we have a consensus, and we do, let that be the center point of our working together.

That’s right, our gravitational pull – the thing that keeps us all united and connected – is the BFM.

I would have thought it was Jesus. Then again, Stetzer is not really talking about being a follower of Christ, he is talking about being a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. So maybe he is not wrong after-all.