I have said recently on this blog and elsewhere that a battle over Calvinism need not take place here at Louisiana College, the Louisiana Baptist Convention, or in the Southern Baptist Convention.
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Dr. Chuck Quarles, Dean of the Louisiana College Caskey School of Divinity, wrote a very helpful article published in the Louisiana Baptist Message in August of 2011 that is fitting for this very hour.
As a Baptist state college, state convention, and national convention, we must choose our battles wisely.
While Louisiana College burns, the internet is abuzz with blog posts, tweets, and facebook discussions from concerned Louisiana College students, Louisiana Baptists, and Southern Baptists from across the United States. Thousands of Southern Baptists have been watching, waiting, and being informed through blogging and social media.
Right now, there is a picture being painted in the Southern Baptist Convention. The canvas consists of the future of the SBC. Many pastors and other leaders are taking their turns with their broad brushes. The colors being used are dark and ominous. It is a sad picture, reflecting pain and disunity. Thankfully, it does not represent reality and I do not believe anyone will ever buy the piece. 
I am blessed to be leaving Sunday for the Southern Baptist Convention’s Annual Meeting in New Orleans, La. This is my first Annual Meeting and I am very excited to be meeting many folks that I have only known through emails and blog conversations. It is going to be a great experience!
It is has been a tough week for Dr. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist 
Theologically, will the issue of Calvinism create further division in the SBC. I have been a SBC preacher over 50 years. I have worked quite well with my Calvinist friends, many of whom I invited to preach for me. I have no desire to run all Calvinists out of the SBC; I think it would be divisive and wrong. But, current attempts to move the SBC to a Calvinistic soteriology are divisive and wrong. As long as groups and individuals seek to force Calvinism upon others in the Convention, there will be problems. There is a form of Calvinism that is militant, hostile and aggressive that I strongly oppose. I have stated before, so it’s not new news, that should the SBC move toward five-point Calvinism it will be a move away from, not toward, the gospel. [Emphasis added]