Asked to respond, Morris said: “People have different persuasions, different ways to reach a same point, and sometimes just don’t see eye to eye. And I think that’s just the way it is.”
Pastor Greggory Maddox, president of United Baptist Missionary Convention and Auxiliaries of the State of Maryland Inc., which is hosting the meeting, said in an interview the week before the gathering that he hopes it will begin and end peacefully.
“I think that the process is not flawed,” he said, speaking personally and not representing his organization.
“We want it to be a unified thing,” he added. “It may be of God’s timing and not of our timing.”
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