Not Baptist Enough

Kaylor over at the blog, For God's Sake Shut Up, makes an interersting observation on the recent Baptist Press article, "Belmont names 7 non-Baptists to join trustee board." One of the eight new trustees was identified as a member of Brentwood Baptist Church, a Tennessee Baptist and Southern Baptist Convention church. Six were clearly labled by their non-Baptist affiliations. One of the other new trustees is a member of a Missionary Baptist Church which is neither Tennessee or Southern Baptist in affiliation. Kaylor takes Baptist Press to task:

How is the one who is a member of a Missionary Baptist church not a Baptist? Sure, that individual is not affiliated with the TBC or even the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), but they are still Baptist. Unless the SBC and the Baptist Press think they get to decide who deserves to be called “Baptist” (which may actually be what’s going on).

Now there's an idea for a great Southern Baptist crusade...let's go tell all those other groups who use Baptist in their names that they aren't really Baptists (I am getting a Baptist history headache)! Oh wait, Southern Baptists are busy trying to decide who gets to Baptise who within our own denomination...we may discover that WE aren't really Baptist enough. Ha!