Fortunately the following views on election or Lordship are not what Baptists have historically believed nor what all believe today.

“Thus election is to both salvation and evangelism. In both the free will of man determines the final result. By free will men can elect to be saved but elect to be barren Christians. God forbid! Men can also elect to be both saved and fruitful Christians. In such lives the sovereign will of God and the free will of man find their divinely intended relationship (John 15:16).”

-Herschel H. Hobbs, What Baptists Believe, 1964