Our neighbors across the street are members of a local Baptist church that affiliates with the CBF (Cooperative Baptist Fellowship). CBF is a Christian fellowship of Baptist churches formed in 1991. POTUS #39 JEC led his church in Plains, GA, out the SBC to the CBF. Theologically moderate, the CBF withdrew from the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) over philosophical and theological differences, such as the SBC prohibition of women serving as pastors.
My point is, their college aged son a few years back (during the Muslim hijrah, 2015-current, out of the ME) went on a mission trip to the Raleigh, NC, area to help with a project oversaw by WorldVision. They were to help Muslim refugees settle in the area. Ended up helping build rudimentary furniture for the Muslims - had no direct contact with them - language differences were obviously a problem. WV handled all the direct contact with the refugees. I tried to tell him what was really happening. He didn't buy into my reasoning. Nice kid, sharp in many ways, but obviously blind to the real world.
6/22/2019 - FR - SBC Chooses Gay-Affirming Pastor as 2020 Conference President>
You can't tell who the players are without a program.
Russell Moore, aged 47 - SBC (2nd) President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission since 2013. The ERLC is the public policy arm of the SBC, the largest non-Catholic Christian denomination in the United States, with over 16 million members in over 43,000 independent churches.[1] It is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, with additional offices in Washington, D.C. and Cyprus. The stated vision of the ERLC is an organization "dedicated to engaging the culture with the gospel of Jesus Christ and speaking to issues in the public square for the protection of religious liberty and human flourishing. Our vision can be summed up in three words: kingdom, culture and mission.
Richard Land, a politically conservative churchman, served as president of the ERLC 1988 to 2013, when he stepped down in the wake of his controversial comments about the Trayvon Martin case in 2012. He announced his intention to retire effective October 23, 2013,[1] and Russell D. Moore filled the post.
Moore earned a B.S. in political science and history from the University of Southern Mississippi, an M.Div. in biblical studies from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in systematic theology from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In the early 1990s, prior to entering the ministry, Moore was an aide to U.S. Representative Gene Taylor of Mississippi, a Democrat.[3]
In 2016, Moore became a leading Trump critic, saying that in a presidential election between Trump and Hillary Clinton, Christians should vote for "a conservative independent or third-party candidate."[7] Moore stated that he could not support the former because he "stirs up racial animosity" and could not support the latter for her support of abortion rights.[7] Writing in the National Review in January 2016, Moore wrote that a Trump presidency would endanger the goals of the Manhattan Declaration; criticized Trump's involvement in the casino industry and past support for abortion rights; and argued that "Trump's vitriolic — and often racist and sexist — language about immigrants, women, the disabled, and others ought to concern anyone who believes that all persons, not just the 'winners' of the moment, are created in God's image."[8]
Moore condemned the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.[9]
At the Convention's 2018 annual meeting, a motion to defund the ERLC was rejected.[9]
Russell Moore with POTUS #44
James David (J.D.) Greear, aged 46 is the Pastor of The Summit Church in Durham, NC (a position he has held since January 2002) and the 62nd President, and current, of the Southern Baptist Convention. Pulpit & Pen has reported that his sympathies seem to be shifting to be more accommodating of the LGBTQ movement.
David Uth, pastor of First Baptist Church in Orlando,FL was elected as the president of the SBC's Pastor’s Conference for its 2020 annual meeting. Many should be reminded about who Uth is, and ask the question whether or not SBC leadership will be making strides for LGBTQ inclusion along with the rest of their latest compromises.
David Uth hosted a gay-affirming LGBTQ event in the wake of the Orlando gay night club shooting at his church, FBC Orlando. In case you have forgotten, #LoveOrlando was a gay-straight hug fest that happened at the church in the shooting’s aftermath.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Convention
The Southern Baptist Convention conservative resurgence (c. 1970–2000) was an intense struggle for control of the SBC's resources and ideological direction. The major internal disagreement captured national attention.[46] Its initiators called it a "Conservative Resurgence",[47] while its detractors have labeled it a "Fundamentalist Takeover".
Among historical elements illustrating this trend, the organization's position on abortion rights within a decade had shifted radically from a pro-abortion position to a strong pro-life one. Once the conservatives won their first election in 1980, they passed a resolution which completely reversed their prior positions on abortion, condemning it in all cases except to save the life of the mother.[54] As such, all subsequent resolutions on the issue have followed the 1980 trend of being strongly against abortion and have gone further into opposing similar issues such as fetal tissue experimentation, RU-486, and taxpayer funding of abortions in general and Planned Parenthood in particular. [55]
In 1995, the convention voted to adopt a resolution in which it renounced its racist roots and apologized for its past defense of slavery, segregation, and white supremacy.[56][57] This marked the denomination's first formal acknowledgment that racism had played a profound role in both its early and modern history. In the 2012 annual meeting, the Southern Baptist Convention elected Fred Luter Jr. as its first African-American president. He had earned respect by his leadership skills shown in building a large congregation in New Orleans.[59]
The increasingly national scope of the convention has inspired some members to suggest a name change. In 2005, proposals were made at the SBC Annual Meeting to change the name from the regional-sounding Southern Baptist Convention to a more national-sounding "North American Baptist Convention" or "Scriptural Baptist Convention" (to retain the SBC initials). These initial proposals were defeated.[60] The messengers of the 2012 annual meeting in New Orleans voted to adopt the descriptor "Great Commission Baptists". The legal name of the convention remains "Southern Baptist Convention", but churches and convention entities can voluntarily use the descriptor.[61]
Almost a year after the Charleston church shooting, SBC approved Resolution 7 which called upon member churches and families to discontinue the flying of the Confederate flag.[62]
The SBC approved a Resolution 12 titled "On Refugee Ministry", encouraging member churches and families to welcome refugees coming to the United States.[63] In the same convention, Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission quickly responded to a pastor who asked why a Southern Baptist should support the right of Muslims living in the United States to build mosques. Moore responded, "Sometimes we have to deal with questions that are really complicated... this isn't one of them." Moore states that religious freedom must be for all religions.[64]
The SBC officially denounced the alt-right movement in the 2017 convention.[65] On November 5, 2017, a mass shooting took place at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs.[66][67] It was the deadliest shooting to occur in any SBC church in its history and in modern history, an American place of worship.[68]