Contents:
1. A Tragic Step That Can Lead to Spiritual Disaster - "Is everything in Scripture accurate and without error?"
2. The Dramatic Shift Away from Biblical Authority - "Authority becomes the result of the mind of man rather than the mind of God."
3. The Church's Historical Position on Biblical Authority - "The Scriptures are the true utterances of the Holy Spirit."
4. Baptists' Historical Position on Biblical Authority - "The inspired writers learned many things by observation or inquiry, but they were preserved by the Holy Spirit from error."
5. The Bible Speaks About Itself - "Are we claiming more for the Bible than the Bible does for itself?"
6. Biblical Authority: What We Do and Don't Mean - "God the Holy Spirit overruled men's imperfections, and did not allow those imperfections to intrude into the Scripture which they wrote."
7. The Southern Baptist Convention and Authority: What To Do Now? - "Can evangelism and missions continue at a strong pace when the doctrinal foundations begin to crumble? The answer to that is no!"
Appendix: A Personal Word to Southern Baptist Pastors and Their People - "Our supreme loyalty will be to Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Such loyalty will cause us to love the Bible, know the Bible, obey the Bible."