I doubt I've ever said this on here but I'm a Southern Baptist and am proud to be one because of our missions work. I don't ever write about what's going on in the Convention because others like Micah do it so well, but I just can't resist saying a little something about what just happened yesterday.

The hob-nobs of our convention have had a bad habit of hand-picking the president ever since '79, except for one guy back in 94-95. So when the big guys handed out an endorsement, everyone pretty much figured it would be him who was "elected". Funny thing though, he got beat yesterday, and pretty soundly too.

The difference? Many are attributing it to bloggers like Micah for getting the word out about these guys and how they would affect us on a grassroots level. One of the main things that people were blogging and talking about was how much they gave to the Cooperative Program. People can talk big about missions work, but they don't put their money where their mouth is. The 2 big guys who had the big endorsements sure could talk about missions work, but did they give? To quote an article from ABP News, "Floyd's church gave 0.27 percent of undesignated receipts to the Cooperative Program in 2005 and an additional 1.6 percent to other SBC causes. Sutton's church gave nothing to the CP in 2005 but sent 2.7 percent to SBC causes." Yeah, that's sad. The guy who won? His church gave 12.1 percent. Bro put his money where his mouth was and the people knew it, respected it, and elected him.