Tenn. The study committee was created at last June's SBC annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., by Executive Committee President Morris H. Chapman. Mormons should not be the only religious group in America known for their concern for families, he stated. The end result has been that many times Southern Baptist churches are not viewed as lighthouses for the home. The SBC Council on Family Life, as approved by the Executive Committee Feb. 19, will work for two years, reporting both to the Executive Committee and to the SBC agency leaders' Great Commission Council, with its key recommendations to be forwarded to the SBC annual meeting for approval.
Cohabitation is sky-rocketing in popularity.
Over fifty percent of America's school children now live in single parent homes. Infidelity and alternative life-styles are touted by the media as the preferred norm. Southern Baptists must admit that many of our own families are also in trouble. Sadly, our rate of divorce is scarcely different from that of society at large. Churches are struggling with the break-up of families.