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Resolution: Southern Baptists and the Public Schools

WHEREAS: Southern Baptists are devoted to missions and the call of Christ to be Salt and Light in a world desperately in need of both, and

WHEREAS: Southern Baptists are committed to sharing the Gospel in the world, and

WHEREAS: Southern Baptists take seriously the Great Commission and it's requirement that we go into ALL the WORLD-

BE IT RESOLVED: that Southern Baptists affirm the American Public Education system and encourage its members to participate actively in the life of society so that they may indeed perform the dual functions of Salt and Light. We also affirm the hundreds of thousands of Christian men and women who teach in our public schools and we encourage our youngsters to seriously consider the teaching profession as a possibility that in it they may well be answering the call of God.

WE UNDERSTAND: that if Christians are to share the Gospel they are required to live in the World while not being of the World.

WE UNDERSTAND: that the Great Commission teaches us that we are to GO, not to wait for the World to come to us.

WE UNDERSTAND: that only in sharing the Gospel in daily life, as citizens who pray, worship, and minister, can we be effective agents of change in a lost and dying world; which means we are not allowed to retreat behind the four walls of the Church and ignore human society.

Humbly submitted for your consideration,

This 12th Day of May, 2004

Dr. James E. West
Pastor, First Baptist Church of Petros
PO Box 310
Petros TN 37845