Selective giving to the Southern Baptist Convention Cooperative Program budget is like believing children can choose their gender, Jeff Iorg told members of the SBC Executive Committee Sept. 22. Iorg, president of the Executive Committee, addressed the gathering on the opening night of its fall meeting in Nashville, Tenn. He lamented that the 100-year-old cooperative giving plan now has splintered into 33 alternate configurations this year. “Expressive individualism is antithetical to cooperation.”The result today is the SBC suffers from “expressive individualism,” Iorg said. “It is redefining the Cooperative Program as a catch-all phrase masking a return to an old approach of societal giving.