Individuals crave meaningful ceremonies to structure the religious part of their life.

Baptist Churches have shed much, if not all, of the imagery which once communicated its distinctives and beliefs.

Baptists emphasize the epitome of Christian meaning: the Bible.

Baptists have maintained that the Bible is the infallible, inerrant verbal revelaton of God to human beings.

Baptists continue to require a personal conversion experience based on faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and King.

Baptists have always preached Jesus as the central figure in human history.

Baptists, when fully Baptist, probably can give God more glory, than they do now and remain Baptist.

People have maneuvered away from organized religion, including their local Baptist church. But some are reorienting back, but is that good news?

Sexual predators have abused Baptist polity to abuse women and children. Our polity needs work, but its not just our polity. Other denominations also govern themselves according the governance of the congregation. This abuse of polity exists everywhere, not only in Baptist churches.

We are trading one imperfect religious system for another potentially worse religious system.

We are giving up on the religious movement in America which gave us religious liberty.

We compromise the public proclamation of the Gospel to the world.