{"id":16,"date":"2018-04-03T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2018-04-19T20:55:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T20:55:59","slug":"messenger-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/03\/messenger-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Messenger Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is from HH Hobbs, the famous SBC pastor, author, and statesman.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Back in 1961 when I was elected president of the convention, after nominations ceased each messenger tore off a piece of any available paper, wrote a name on it, and dropped it in a basket.\u00a0 If a non-messenger chose to do so, no one but himself and God would know it. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/41J06N7G0RL-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/41J06N7G0RL-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/41J06N7G0RL.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 85vw, 192px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Herschel Hobbs Lectures are a series of lectures given at Oklahoma Baptist University on the topic of Baptist history and life.\u00a0 The lectureship is ongoing and this story and others can be found in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1881576760\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=lukeaholmes-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1881576760&amp;linkId=c5c4a97263923e55c1aa0c5778d61ac5\">Fibers of Our Faith.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is from HH Hobbs, the famous SBC pastor, author, and statesman. &#8220;Back in 1961 when I was elected president of the convention, after nominations ceased each messenger tore off a piece of any available paper, wrote a name on it, and dropped it in a basket.\u00a0 If a non-messenger chose to do so, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/03\/messenger-voting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Messenger Voting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbchistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}