Undocumented yet baptized: A quandary for Southern Baptists

A Southern Baptist Convention official says evangelicals are galvanizing around immigration reform because increasingly the issue affects someone they know.

“A primary motivating factor for us is this has become personal for us,” Barrett Duke, vice president for public policy and research for the SBC Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said October 29 in a panel discussion before 600 national leaders who converged on Washington to lobby Congress to pass immigration reform.

“Evangelicals . . . share the gospel with anyone who will stand still long enough to have a conversation with them,” Duke quipped, “and of course many of those folks end up trusting Christ as savior.”