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Church to Rejoin Convention

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19900623
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The "mother church" of an independent Baptist fundamentalist movement that led congregations to leave the Southern Baptist Convention has voted to rejoin the denomination.

First Baptist Church of Fort Worth was ousted from the Tarrant County Baptist Association in the 1920s because of the confrontational style and tactics of its pastor, the Rev. J. Frank Norris.

"I feel if Dr. J. Frank Norris were here today and saw the direction the Southern Baptist Convention was moving, he would vote with us to reunite with Southern Baptists," said the Rev. Billy Ramsey, the 32-year-old pastor of the ...

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