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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Okie4570" data-source="post: 2780790" data-attributes="member: 15643">I grew up Southern Baptist and still am, late 70's early 80's. It was doom and gloom from the pulpit. If you weren't there for both Sunday services and Wednesday night, you were treated like you needed to go through the whole salvation process again. The word grace was never mentioned, it was all about what you shouldn't do, and a list of things that were taboo. A list so long that nobody could live it, so people just did it in secret............dumb things like dancing, playing cards, smoking, drinking, etc. Definitely the cause of why so many think Christians are hypocrites today. It wasn't until jr. high and high school that I went to other churches, both Southern Baptists and other denominations that I realized that this was how the majority of Southern Baptist churches were at the time. I strayed away from church for several years during high school and afterword. Now that I'm older and been back in church for the last 15+ years in a church were true grace is taught (which doesn't mean that you can live a free for all life and you're still good to go) I can look back and see how those churches at that time were turning so many people off, and turning so many people away as they were NEVER going to live up to the churches expectations. Where I attend now, our pastor was dismissed from the Southern Baptist Convention a few years ago for pointing out flaws in their bylaws and for pointing out in scripture why they are wrong...........so believe it or not there is a graced based Southern Baptist church in existence with an attendance of about 2500+.</blockquote>

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