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==Baptist affairs==

==Baptist affairs==

From 1984 to 1986,  Moore was elected president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, one of the more moderate of the state conventions, He was also the first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1985 to 1986. In 1985, Moore, as the moderate candidate, lost the SBC presidential contest in a challenge to the fundamental-conservative incumbent, [[Charles Stanley]], pastor of the First Baptist Church of [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]]. Moore received 19,795 votes (44.7 percent) to Stanley's 24,453 (55.3 percent). SBC presidents normally served only two consecutive one-year terms.<ref name=sbc>{{cite web|url=http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/6188,12-May-1986.PDF|author=Dan Martin|title=Moore Is Willing To Be Nominated|date=May 12, 1986|publisher=media.shbla.org|accessdate=November 17, 2019}}</ref>​

From 1984 to 1986,  Moore was elected president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, one of the more moderate of the state conventions, He was also the first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1985 to 1986. In 1985, Moore, as the moderate candidate, lost the SBC presidential contest in a challenge to the fundamental-conservative incumbent, [[Charles Stanley]], pastor of the First Baptist Church of [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]]. Moore received 19,795 votes (44.7 percent) to Stanley's 24,453 (55.3 percent). SBC presidents normally served only two consecutive one-year terms.<ref name=sbc>{{cite web|url=http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/6188,12-May-1986.PDF|author=Dan Martin|title=Moore Is Willing To Be Nominated|date=May 12, 1986|publisher=''Baptist Press''|accessdate=November 17, 2019}}</ref>​

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In 1986, Moore told his Amarillo congregation that he would allow his name to be placed again in nomination for the SBC presidency to succeed Stanley. Moore indicated that he had long "been deeply disturbed about the direction of our convention. At the present we are headed in the direction of making doctrinal agreement a prerequisite for cooperative missions and evangelism. Our Cooperative Program (unified method of support) was established [in 1926] because Baptists were confident that it is the most effective way to reach the world for Christ. History consistently has shown the basic rightness of that decision. . . . We have agreed and do agree on the authority of the Bible, but we have not and will not completely agree on the interpretation of the Bible. What we did back in 1926 . . . was to trust each other and to agree on the priority and wisdom of cooperative missions and [[evangelism]]."<ref name=sbc/>​

In 1986, Moore told his Amarillo congregation that he would allow his name to be placed again in nomination for the SBC presidency to succeed Stanley. Moore indicated that he had long "been deeply disturbed about the direction of our convention. At the present we are headed in the direction of making doctrinal agreement a prerequisite for cooperative missions and evangelism. Our Cooperative Program (unified method of support) was established [in 1926] because Baptists were confident that it is the most effective way to reach the world for Christ. History consistently has shown the basic rightness of that decision. . . . We have agreed and do agree on the authority of the Bible, but we have not and will not completely agree on the interpretation of the Bible. What we did back in 1926 . . . was to trust each other and to agree on the priority and wisdom of cooperative missions and [[evangelism]]."<ref name=sbc/>​