Honors
Dilday is highly respected for his denominational leadership and has been recognized by Texas Monthly magazine as one of the “Texas Twenty” – persons across the state who “have proved to be pivotal forces in their respective fields – and, by extension, in Texas.” He was also named by The Baptist Standard as one of the “ten most influential Texas Baptists in the twentieth century.”
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