Southern Baptist Convention: Calvinism team meets for second time

An advisory team on the issue of Calvinism met for the second time in Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 5-6, Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee President Frank Page reported after members of the 19-member group convened.

Page named the advisory team -- "not an official committee" -- in mid-August to develop, as he told Baptist Press at the time, "a strategy whereby people of various theological persuasions can purposely work together in missions and evangelism."

When he announced the advisory team, Page said at some point in the coming weeks and months he is hoping for "the crafting of a statement regarding the strategy on how we can work together." Read more