Invitation to Wade Burleson

Wade, Will You Please Let Us
in on the "Secret" Source?

Brother Wade, I wonder if perhaps you have lately been waking-up in the wee hours of the morning, audibly mumbling aloud, "What on earth have I done!"

Then, as you lie there in bed, your churning thoughts can't help but reflect back to the more than two years (2005-2008) of controversy and "hard feelings" which characterized your tenure on the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board, as it has at last dawned upon you that all the while you "never had a leg to stand on."

Your mind goes on to recall -- as you toss around and begin to perspire -- how you continuously carried on a badgering agenda toward your fellow IMB trustees for their alleged "Landmarkism." But now, as you wait to spring your book on the matter to the public, the one known source you have quoted to ostensibly verify and authenticate your charge of "Landmarkism" denies that the IMB policy on baptism is "Landmarkist"
(as you alleged), but rather that source says the IMB policy is perfectly consistent with the SBC's Baptist Faith & Message Article VII.

I just wonder, Wade, since you evidently did not have my book, Old Landmarkism and the Baptists, when you first broached your charge that the policy of the IMB on baptism is "Landmarkist," where in the world did you get that idea?

Even if you had my book at that time (2005), you would not have imbibed that idea from that book, for you can't quote a single line from the book, citing the chapter and page number, which would identify the IMB policy as being "Landmarkist."

Do you remember, Wade, that TV show called "I've Got a Secret"? Is it perchance the case with you, that you also have a "secret"? Do you reveal your "secret" source in your new book, Wade -- perhaps a source we do not know about, which perhaps is a "Landmarkist" source -- which supports your view on this?

I wish to invite you, Wade, to please share with the readers of the Reformed Flyswatter what that "secret" is -- what "Landmarkist" source you relied on in 2005 and thereafter which substantiates the allegation you made in the controversy about the policy of the IMB in regard to baptism?

I have scores of Landmark writings in my library, Wade, from J. R. Graves to the modern Landmark advocates who consider me a "heretic" -- books, pamphlets, tracts, magazines -- and I personally was involved for several years in my church affiliation with, and in the advocacy of, Landmarkism, -- as I have related in my book -- and I have never yet come upon anything which would categorize the IMB policy as being "Landmarkist."

To put it bluntly, Wade, you evidently found something which I never heard or read -- something which is a "secret" so far as my knowledge of Landmarkism extends.

Will you please share that "secret" information with us on this blog? Our "front page" is wide open to you, Wade. Please reveal your "secret" source.