I mentioned this last night, and will mention it a couple of more times, but I need to write a quick post about leadership.

Leadership is a responsibility. The leaders of the convention that have been vocal on the issues I have discussed have almost exclusively sided against my thoughts. I truly believed, though, that the entirety of the SBC leadership was not of that mindset. Yesterday, I was proven right, when Morris Chapman and the EC report both spoke strongly about repealing the narrowing of parameters within the SBC. Frank Page also said something similar in the introduction to his sermon.

If we are to make it beyond this crucial moment without literally dividing, shattering or sliding back into the narrowing of our parameters of cooperation, then we are going to have to have everyone else reveal their disposition and hammer out the details with the rest of the leadership that has been vocal thus far.

I said yesterday that I have done everything I can to “set the ball at the net” but it will be up to them to “spike” it. Men of great caliber and timber are among us and believing like us, but to be great leaders, they must move to the center of the discussion. We need great leaders.

If the stopping of the trend to more narrow parameters is to be achieved, it will be because you have risen to the occasion. If you do not, we will certainly not succeed and the future of the convention, I believe, is grim.

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