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When Does Cooperation Become Compromise?

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​When Does Cooperation Become Compromise?​

Josh Taylor

Published on June 20, 2026

A pastor friend called recently with a question I could not shake. His church has served their local public school for years. Now a congregation from a mainline denomination wants to join the work. Are they sound? Should he partner with them? They will be there either way.

Title card reading When Does Cooperation Become Compromise? set over an empty auditorium of blue seats facing a bare platform. A Baptist Press First Person by Josh Taylor.

Every pastor I know is living some version of that conversation. The invitation rarely arrives looking like heresy. It comes as a service project, a school function, a civic prayer breakfast, a coalition for a worthy cause. The question underneath is always the same. When does standing beside someone stop being cooperation and start becoming endorsement?

I worked through it the way I work through most things, with Scripture and a little church history. Albert Mohler’s theological triage. The Apostle John’s warning in 2 John. The day, by Irenaeus’s account, that John fled a bathhouse rather than share a roof with a heretic. The piece is my attempt to give pastors a way to think clearly before they say yes to the next partnership.

Baptist Press ran it this month as a First Person. I would be grateful if you read it, and more grateful if you passed it to a pastor wrestling with the question right now.

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Josh Taylor is an ordained minister and pastors Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Demorest, Georgia. He holds degrees in pastoral ministry from Toccoa Falls College and in Christian apologetics from Biola University, and a DMin in biblical preaching from Anderson University in South Carolina. He is married to Mandy, and they have two kids: Scottlynn and Haddon.

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Josh Taylor is the Senior Pastor of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Demorest, GA, and an author with degrees from Toccoa Falls College (B.A. in Pastoral Ministry), Biola University (M.A. in Christian Apologetics), and Anderson University (D.Min. in Biblical Preaching). He has published A Preach Well Church: How Churches Can Stop Burning Out Pastors (Wipf & Stock) and Mercy Mild. At PreachWell.com, Josh writes on Scripture, Christian living, and church health.

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