in the leadership, became common in Southern Baptist churches, with church members having the same percentage of failures as nonmembers. The call for the thoroughgoing renewal of the doctrine and practice of the church, especially as to membership and discipline, has never been made more aptly or clearly than by Al Jackson, the pastor for thirty-five years of Lakeview Baptist Church of Auburn, Alabama. He wrote, “A generation ago Southern Baptists … won the battle for the Bible. This generation faces