Recent news stories describing the massive layoffs at the International Mission Board of Southern Baptists, the nearly 50 percent downsizing of the Florida Baptist Convention staff, the continued erosion of financial support for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the sell-off by state conventions of facilities now too large for shrunken staff all confirm what is becoming obvious.
We are witnessing the beginning of the end for Baptist denominational entities, as we have known them. Following the lead of mainline judicatories, Baptist bodies, local, state, regional and national, are in free-fall.
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