Tuesday, April 14, 2009

A Southern Baptist Wordle

Timmy Brister:

Over the weekend, Dr. Thom Rainer, President and CEO of LifeWay, conducted an informal survey on Twitter regarding people’s thoughts about the name “Southern Baptist.” Specifically, Rainer asked,

What do you think when you hear ‘Southern Baptist’?

The answers are quite telling. Below is a Wordle put together by Tony Kummer:

1 comment:

Christopher Lake said...

Some of these public impressions may largely depend on the louder voices in the SBC (and in some Southern Baptist churches) drowning out the more thoughtful, careful (and quite Biblically faithful) ones.

It grieves me that so many people think of Southern Baptists in the ways that are shown here. Capitol Hill Baptist is a church which is "in friendly cooperation with the SBC," and it is so unlike the negative Southern Baptist picture which many people have in their minds.