Following is an email that was sent by Randy White: Pastor of the First Baptist Church - Katy, Tx to Greg Warner at apbnews.com regarding Bob Reccord.

From: Randy White
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:51 PM
To: greg@abpnews.com
Subject: Bob Reccord

Greg;

Your article today about Bob Reccord was pure “politics of personal destruction”. Who would not think that more than a year after leaving NAMB Bob Reccord would not be accepting speaking engagements in local churches, and that those local churches would not generously give honoraria and love offerings.

You know that what Reccord has done in his speaking since NAMB is completely normal and that what Calvary Baptist Church did in taking a love offering was completely customary. I would suppose you have received love offerings and honoraria yourself, and would continue to do so even if you left ABP with a handsome severance.

I encourage my church to give generously for love offerings for visiting preachers. When we do not take a love offering, I give a very generous honorarium from our church budget. I do so regardless of what kind of salary (or severance) the individual may have from their church or
denominational entity. This is the right thing to do.

Your article should have been praising Bob Reccord for being willing to go to smaller congregations to preach the Gospel after having opportunities to speak to tens of thousands. Too many, after serving “in the temple holy” never again go in “the homes of the poor and lowly”. Rather, your writing used the size of the congregation to make a snide remark. Shame on you for showing disrespect to the tens of thousands of congregations the size of Calvary that are being used of God to win our nation to Christ.

This kind of vindictive, agenda-driven “journalism” is unbecoming of you and of Associated Baptist Press. Bob Reccord and the Calvary Baptist Church deserve an apology.

In His Grace;
Randy White,
Katy, TX

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