A long-term friend and ministry colleague--Buddy McGohon--sent me this response to the post. With his permission, I edited it and I am posting it here:
“Thank you for your tribute to Russell Bennett. I first met Russell in February 1961. Since my first child was born the previous October, I dropped out of Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY for a couple of semesters. I was teaching Speech and English at Shelby County High School as well as serving as pastor of the Buffalo Lick Baptist Church. Russell was pastor at Campbellsburg Baptist Church in Henry County.
'Pappy' Sanders was Buffalo Lick’s chairperson of deacons and the long-time clerk of the Shelby Baptist Association. He insisted I attend all the association’s meetings. Little did I know this was the beginning of God preparing of me to eventually be the director of the Montgomery Baptist Association in Alabama. It was also the beginning of my understanding that the Kingdom role of a local Baptist association was far more profound than that of being an arm of our national convention.
It was not until I had been the director of an association for a while that I learned of, and came to appreciate, Russell Bennett‘s pioneering work related to associations.”
A long-term friend and ministry colleague--Buddy McGohon--sent me this response to the post. With his permission, I edited it and I am posting it here:
“Thank you for your tribute to Russell Bennett. I first met Russell in February 1961. Since my first child was born the previous October, I dropped out of Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY for a couple of semesters. I was teaching Speech and English at Shelby County High School as well as serving as pastor of the Buffalo Lick Baptist Church. Russell was pastor at Campbellsburg Baptist Church in Henry County.
'Pappy' Sanders was Buffalo Lick’s chairperson of deacons and the long-time clerk of the Shelby Baptist Association. He insisted I attend all the association’s meetings. Little did I know this was the beginning of God preparing of me to eventually be the director of the Montgomery Baptist Association in Alabama. It was also the beginning of my understanding that the Kingdom role of a local Baptist association was far more profound than that of being an arm of our national convention.
It was not until I had been the director of an association for a while that I learned of, and came to appreciate, Russell Bennett‘s pioneering work related to associations.”