Carter and Rogers

I've found it interesting that former President Jimmy Carter has now admitted that a comment he had attributed to Adrian Rogers was not said by him. Executive editor of The Florida Baptist Witness, James A. Smith Sr. had challenged Carter's allegation of an Oval Office exchange between the former president and Rogers. Carter had written in his latest book that in 1979 the new president of the SBC [who was Rogers] had said, "We are praying, Mr. President, that you will abandon secular humanism as your religion."

In an interview with Smith shortly before his death, Rogers denied ever saying that to Carter. The former president has apologized to the Rogers family and intends to make a correction in future printings of the book, Our Endangered Values. Apparently the visit in question was not with Rogers at all and in 1980 instead of 1979.

See the full story at http://www.floridabaptistwitness.com/5315.article

I'm glad that this is getting straigthened out after all these years. It's a shame that one of the great leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention's last thirty-years has been tagged with this false accusation. I appreciate the editor of The Witness for getting to the truth. We would do well to remember 1 Timothy 3:19: "Do not receive an accusation against an elder except on the basis of two or three witnesses."