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God Bless,
Rick

http://www.floridabaptistwitness.com/10507.article

I don’t disagree with you and Bart that the fish on the sidewalk at the corner of 9th and Commerce is beginning to stink a bit…. But, if what you say is true, then Clark has made the right decision and is consistent with his conviction…. which would be to resign. He may have already determined that the Kingdom is better served by his leaving than his staying, that is his choice. No one put words in his mouth…..as he said “We are uncomfortable and embarrassed by being in the center of this attention”.

It sounds like the man loves the Lord and wants the best. Maybe he doesn’t want to play the victim in this case. He said … “I also wish God’s blessings on the entire Executive Committee”. I would be discouraged to find his blessing to be a statement to appease the powerful and not one of sincerity.

Blessings,
Chris

I don’t know of a “kind” way to terminate anyone. It’s a hard task that I have on occasion had to take for what I believed to be the best (both in church vocation and secular business). I have even had to have some of those terminated “escorted” while they cleaned out their offices. Whether one agrees with the reasons given for termination or not, it is never an easy decision and it is never looked upon as “kind” or “friendly.’

But the truth is that there is a difference between terminating someone with cause – and granting them severance, btw – and forcing someone to resign, leaving nothing but questions.

Chris,

Maybe Logan could have forced someone to fire him, but I doubt that it would have advanced the Kingdom of God – I know it wouldn’t have done anything for his family. I understand what you’re saying – but perhaps Logan has already received the better jewels.

Grace,
Wes

I should also have noted that your link certainly DOES provide “a different perspective” on the whole Debusman situation. Different indeed. That article illustrates all the more clearly Debusman’s opposition to the clearly expressed will of the people of the SBC since 1979, and thereby undergirds my point.

All things being equal, I agree with you. However, knowing that the person asking has carte blanche authority to fire you, I can see how someone who cared about the mission of Southern Baptists and the needs of Cooperative Program ministries might rather leave quietly than stand and fight. The fact that others have not allowed him simply to leave quietly (for here we are discussing it noisily) is, according to Logan’s own statement, an “embarrassment” to him and his family, and not something that they have desired or cultivated.

Perhaps, knowing that he had no court of appeal, Logan stepped away quietly for his own conception of the greater good?

As I have tried to indicate, Clark Logan probably does not qualify as “someone like [me].” We’ve had one and only one interaction ever, and that was when he volunteered to clean my clock.

The difference between the Debusman and Dilday situations on the one hand and the Logan situation on the other hand is that Debusman and Dilday were acting in opposition to the expressed will of the people of the Southern Baptist Convention, while Logan appears to be aligned in favor of the will of the people of the SBC. That’s a noteworthy difference.

Also, I wish to clarify that my objection is not to the way that Logan was treated as he was being fired. I don’t care if the SBC EC had put him up at the Waldorf-Astoria for a month to recuperate from the shock of it all. I’m not asking why he was fired THE WAY that he was fired; I’m asking why he was fired at all.