FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY

"Freedom is not tangential to the Baptist identity; it is at the core of what it means to be a Baptist... Baptist freedoms are fragile; they are too readily relinquished from within and too easily pirated from without. Freedom can be abdicated. Freedom can also be stolen. Freedom-lovers have no choice but to be vigilant in the defense of freedom." –Walter Shurden

Every Baptist freedom can be undermined by irresponsibility. No freedom gives one license to act without boundaries. Freedom demands individual and collective responsibility.

"If Baptists experiences a rebirt of commitment to (their liberties), they would not only rediscover their roots and their identity, they would also become prophetically relevant to the world today."–Walter Shurden