NAMB Whistleblower Terminated

Mike Stewart, an Associational Mission Director in California who blew the whistle on the fudged statistics being reported by the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board, has been fired by NAMB. Here's a quote from Greg Warner's report at ABP:

Stewart said the accusation that he spoke negatively about NAMB likely came from a presentation he made to other associational directors Jan. 10. "I said NAMB's factual data on church growth was not good and the missionary count was inflated," Stewart told ABP.

Those same statistics contributed to the forced resignation of NAMB president Bob Reccord a month later. Stewart, a theological conservative, said those statistics have not been popular with the SBC's conservative leaders. "If our [denominational] problems were theological 20 years ago, we should see a rebound. But the data shows we're in decline in everything."