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Or Baptist missionaries?
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Does the Baptist church have the same rigid, hyper-centralised command-and-control structures as the LDS and the LSM? I do see similarities: all these groups have mandates to go forth & tell the great unwashed masses about the Bible and Jesus Christ. But in the case of the LDS and LSM, the Bible and Jesus, aka "the gospel message", are merely foils, introductory to the special revelation of God's special anointed prophet raised up in these last days, and the cloistered group that follows the teachings of said prophet without question.
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William Franklin Graham, Jr. (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018), better known as Billy Graham, was an American Evangelical Christian minister and evangelist. He was a member of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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I don't recall Billy Graham ever requiring hearers to show up at his home church, and read his books. And because of this he's derided by LSM Blenders as "not building the church"! With the LSM, the gospel is merely the prelude to the real motive, the real "ends and purposes", which is building up the LSM-affiliated church, and kow-towing to ministry leadership. Jesus and the Bible are set aside as soon as they've served their purpose, which is getting feet through ministry turnstiles.