I don't know how you spent your lunch hours last week, but I spent most of mine describing in detail the Baptist distinctives of local church autonomy and soul freedom and just why it was not appropriate for the SBC to ask church communities to sign a statement of faith and belief.  That, combined with the other half of that luncheon discussion -- just what is meant by the formal process of discernment through which the majority of my classmates have just passed -- has left me feeling like I spent the last week in the tumbler of one of those rock polishing machines that I banished from the house over…