Dissent

This is from Wade Burleson's blog, "Grace and Truth to You."  He is a dissident on the Southern Baptist Convention's (SBC) International Missions Board (IMB).
The full blog entry:  http://kerussocharis.blogspot.com/2007/11/imb-meeting-monday-nov-5-springfield.html


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I would like to close tonight's post, at this very late hour, with this great quote I recently discovered by the great Polish dissident Vaclav Havel and one I hope might be an encouragement to my Southern Baptist friends who are on their way to paving the future of tomorrow for all of us who name Christ as Savior and are not afraid to stand on Baptist principles:

Polish dissident Vaclav Havel:

You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

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