"I, unfortunately, with a great deal of sorrow have walked away from the idea that all of you are men and women of the Word," Matt Chandler of The Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas, told a group of Southern Baptist pastors Monday. "I've just come to find that a lot of you are really good at clichés and really bad at tying in the Word."

Chandler, who is currently undergoing chemotherapy for brain cancer, was in Orlando, Fla., as one of several well-known speakers during the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors' Conference. ...