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Beyondthe Bible Belt >> This is the August 2014 issue containing the September Bible Study Lessons Remembering Anne Neil 14 baptiststoday.org Beyond the Bible Belt Exter Hardy’s westward call still compels him to serve 4 FA TH™ BIBLE STUDIES for adults and youth 17 PERSPECTIVES John D. Pierce The value in knowing what we don’t know 7 Executive Editor By John Pierce [email protected] Julie Steele Anne Thomas Neil was a guiding star 14 Chief Operations Officer By Alicia Davis Porterfield [email protected] Jackie B. Riley The conundrum of moderate Baptist missions 29 Managing Editor By Tony W. Cartledge [email protected] Tony W. Cartledge A lesson from a duel between the sun Contributing Editor and the wind 37 [email protected] By Travis Collins Bruce T. Gourley Online Editor [email protected] IN THE NEWS David Cassady Q&A with Church Resources Editor One in five Americans see Bible as [email protected] merely ‘fables, legends and history’ 8 Clarissa Terri Byrd Contributing Writer Ranier: Sale of Glorieta for $1 Strickland 38 Vickie Frayne was ‘tough decision’ 8 Art Director Has the Internet led to more pulpit plagiarism? 9 Jannie Lister Customer Service Manager Two small Baptist colleges face FEATURES [email protected] accreditation trouble 9 Kimberly L. Hovis Baptist Theology: Part 2 Marketing Associate Hobby Lobby court victory brings By Fisher Humphreys 32 [email protected] opposition, support 10 Lex Horton Ask the Theologian: Part 3 34 Nurturing Faith Resources Manager Five takeaways from the Hobby Lobby case 11 [email protected] Saint Roberto Clemente? Walker Knight, Publisher Emeritus Court gives Wheaton College pass By Heather Adams 36 Jack U. Harwell, Editor Emeritus on birth control insurance 12 DIRECTORS EMERITI ‘Evangelical Catholics’: Thomas E. Boland New alliances shaping the political landscape 13 R. Kirby Godsey Mary Etta Sanders Winnie V. Williams BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mutual good Donald L. Brewer, Gainesville, Ga. (chairman) Community market brings Alabam congregation, Cathy Turner, Clemson, S.C. (vice chair) neighbors together 42 Nannette Avery, Signal Mountain, Tenn. Mary Jane Cardwell, Waycross, Ga. Jack Causey, Statesville, N.C. Anthony D. Clevenger, Pensacola, Fla. James M. Dunn, Winston-Salem, N.C. Jack Glasgow, Zebulon, N.C. Frank Granger, Athens, Ga. Cynthia Holmes, St. Louis, Mo. David Hull, Huntsville, Ala. Fisher Humphreys, Birmingham, Ala. Andrew McGill, Chattanooga, Tenn. William T. Neal, Stone Mountain, Ga. Roger Paynter, Austin, Texas Kathy B. Richardson, Rome, Ga. Charles Schaible, Macon, Ga. Macon Sheppard, Clemson, S.C. Walter B. Shurden, Macon, Ga. Jim Strawn, Dunwoody, Ga. 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POSTMASTER: Send address corrections to: Baptists TodayAll rights reserved. !"#$% &'( )*#"# +% ,#*' )-.$/. the Bible Belt Exter Hardy’s westward call still compels him to serve Davis, Calif. — It’s not an easy route to the pastorate of a Baptist congre- gation in this progressive university - town on the West Coast from the veterinary medicine school at the Exter Hardy followed a divine tug rather than the easy route. ’m annoyed at how many people have a negative view of Christianity here,” “Isaid Hardy, pastor of Pole Line Baptist Church in this tidy town that’s home to the University of California, Davis. “But we’re trying to change that.” Conveying love and support to a suspi- cious community is challenging, he said. But it’s possible through service-oriented programs such as parents’ night out. “We want them to know that we’re here and we care,” he said. “If people need some- thing, they can call on us.” When he describes his congregation as loving and accepting — and with “a reputation for caring” — he speaks from personal as well as professional experience. Hardy began attending the church first, then “filling in” when the pulpit was vacant before eventually assuming the pastorate. The congregation warmly welcomed his family and stuck with him through divorce. Of his four children — two biological and two adopted — two have special needs. ‘GIFT OF FINGERS’ Exter preaches in sign language and English each Sunday. With two deaf sons, he knows the importance of reaching as many people as Though a long-held career goal, he felt Videos of his sermons are made avail- possible. “miserable” in veterinary school and dropped able online for deaf persons without access to His early interest in sign language confused out. He was being pulled in another direction. weekly preaching and teaching. A congregation his college friends who knew his vocational plan And his sign language would become an in Nova Scotia, without a pastor, makes use of at that time was to become a veterinarian. important gift as a foster parent, parent and them. “Are you going to work with deaf dogs pastor. He also served as a missionary to deaf “Instead of the gift of tongues, I have the and cats?” one of them asked. persons in Sacramento, Calif. gift of fingers,” he said. 4 BEYOND THE BIBLE BELT and family counseling from California State Balancing self-denial University, Sacramento. While a college student, Hardy attended a Baptist He offers his services to those beyond the with self-care Student Union conference in Tennessee at which congregation. Mixed reviews followed his efforts xter Hardy, pastor of Pole Line Baptist mission leader Keith Parks gave a compel- to simply hand his business card to employees of Baptist Church in Davis, Calif., ling message to leave the familiar for Christian local businesses he frequents, with the words: “If gives much attention to a needed service. E you ever need anything…” balancing act in the lives of ministers “I couldn’t stay in the Southeast after that,” Three persons sought out counseling, and and other Christian leaders. Exter recalled saying in response to the call. another wanted help with a funeral. It is the tension between the call of That call was reinforced when Hardy, then Yet an irate grocery store manager threat- Jesus to deny oneself and the promise of serving as youth minister at Central Baptist ened him and told him not to come back. Jesus to give abundant life. Church in Waycross, Ga., visited Mercer However, the new store manager said it was He tackled this issue as part of his University to hear seminary representatives. He OK for him to shop and to offer his services to doctoral work that led to the publication learned of Golden Gate Baptist Theological employees. of a workbook titled, Does Ministry Have Seminary near San Francisco. “I’m a foster parent too and I teach foster To Hurt So Much? Helpful Observations from “I felt called to missions and thought I parenting classes,” said Exter, noting that he the Life of Jesus. needed to get out of the Bible Belt to prepare,” is not identified as a pastor in that role, but a “In many ways this is my life he said. counselor whose education and experience are journey in a workbook,” he said of the He began his seminary studies on the West emphasized. ongoing struggle to give of oneself with- Coast in 1983 — and has remained in California out depleting oneself. ever since, except for a six-month ministry experi- LARGER PRESENCE In the workbook’s introduction, he ence as a seminarian in Australia. The eight Christian congregations in Davis warns of the danger that can come from work closely to create a positive image and to being out of balance. ROOTED, GROWING better serve their shared community, Exter said. “Some Christians even feel guilty Hardy’s first pastorate was in Winters, Calif., a Together they do 58 different mission projects if they take time or resources to do rural setting where his undergraduate degree in “to help the city see we are not fragmented and something for themselves,” he writes agriculture made him a good fit. that we really do care.” in the introduction. “However, when Challenging times would follow, lead- The Pole Line congregation, after a careful we Christians do not take care of our ing Exter to resign and find temporary work. study of Baptist beliefs, voted unanimously to own personal needs, we often become Following the birth of a second child, who had move from its longtime connections as Southern discouraged and even burn out in our severe medical problems, Exter became a full- Baptists and align with the Cooperative Baptist ministry.” time caretaker who stayed in an RV — parked at Fellowship.
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