To reverse that, the association is promoting a vision of a corps of cooperating ministers, including non-Southern Baptists, united to evangelize the Houston area. It didn't matter if you went to a Baptist church in Texas, Tennessee, California or the Carolinas, the churches were virtually alike. But all that has changed and changed rapidly, especially for the urban church. The UBA, for example, serves a diverse number of congregations ranging from megachurches to worship centers in houses. African-American, Asian and Hispanic congregations have diverse worship styles.
Some churches offer a traditional style of worship while others are more contemporary.
What has not kept pace with the changing church scene is new leadership responses and attitudes from ministers. We train people to go out and do their thing in local church by themselves. He prefers that ministers have a larger corporate and communal identity similar to that of a military force. The military does not train a soldier, then leave him alone to defend certain terrain, Billings pointed out. The soldier is part of a squad, a platoon and a company that fights together with larger units for certain objectives.