The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is now officially in full support of the Millennium Development Goals set forth by the United Nations.*
A few months ago I wrote about my ambivalence concerning this new emphasis.
The Millennium Development Goals and Christian Mission
I attended last week the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly in Memphis, Tennessee. Overall I thought it was excellent. It was the first CBF General Assembly I can say I “enjoyed”. The assembly along with various speakers with much time emphasizes the MDGs and how the CBF will support and work toward those goals. In fact we were asked to write letters to our various government representatives in support of the MDGs.
I am not against the MDGs. (A couple of them make me a little uneasy – only because you and I might agree on a goal but have very different ideas how to pursue that goal.) And it probably is praiseworthy that much of what CBF already does fits in nicely with the MDGs. My only hope is that we do not imitate the Episcopal Church and essentially replace the Christian mission with (or define that mission by) the Millennium Development Goals.
A good overview of how the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship supports the MDGs is available here.
*I apologize for the atrocious writing style here. Nominalized verbs?!? Why not “the CBF now supports fully and officially”? Doh.
