I think it was Lester Roloff who coined the term “the fraternity of the free” in reference to our inde­pendent Baptist crowd. That is exactly what I found it to be when I left the Southern Baptist Conven­tion over forty years ago. I have enjoyed that fraternity and recom­mend it to all without the slightest hesitation and without reservation. When Jesus said, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32), He gave us a foundational principle on which