different Christian tradition. R. G. Lee, the famous twentieth-century Southern Baptist pastor, captured this approach with a quip: “I’m Baptist born and Baptist bred, and when I die I’ll be Baptist dead.” Some people are Baptists by convenience because they presently attend a Baptist church. Baptists by convenience have an institutional identity because their commitment to being Baptist is rooted in their local church membership or participation. Often someone who is a Baptist by convenience could
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