WMU proposal shows need for control
This letter is regarding the conversation about whether the Woman's Missionary Union (WMU) should be part of the SBC. R. G. Lee, in an otherwise good sermon entitled "Pay Day Someday," drops these words of cold venom, "take the stirring crimes of any age, and at the bottom . . . the world almost invariable finds a woman."
Why such negativism? Can we trace a powerful wellspring from which the Neo-Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is seeking to "incorporate" the WMU? The word is "control," not incorporate. "Control" now seems to be the sacred word of the Convention.
Baptist women were doing missions, teaching missions and raising money for missions long before they were welcome in the SBC. Why change anything now? See Galatians 5: 1.
Robert Brooks
Clayton, N.C.
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