Posted on 01/27/2015 11:06:28 AM PST by MacNaughton
Leaders in nation's largest Protestant denomination are preaching that integrated churches can be a key driver of racial justice in society. But that could be a hard sell to those sitting in Southern Baptist Convention congregations.
The Rev. Russell Moore, who leads the Southern Baptist's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, is one of several white leaders calling for multiethnic congregations in the wake of the unrest spurred by the killings of black men by white police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City.
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For me much of the church experience is the music, the old hymns, I was raised Southern Baptist and I remember all the old hymns. These were mostly small churches and my grandfather, who couldn’t carry a tune in a five gallon bucket, was usually the unpaid choir director. When we have family gatherings, including funerals, much of it centers around my four sisters singing and family members playing violin, guitar, mandolin and flute.
I’ve got to agree with you there.
I think that’s kind of funny.
And isn’t it possible he was joking or teasing you a bit?
Not a good idea. Many non-White churches are politically oriented, while others are anti-American separatist (like 0bama’s church)
Please. People go where they are comfortable. I highly doubt SB churches are kicking black folks out who are there to worship as brothers and sisters. Now, if the call is to integrate because that’s the goal of multiculuralism, then this is incredibly stupid.
Let’s let this guy figger out a way to first get the hoodlums/pillagers/rioters/ thieves into a church, any church. Then he can start by rotating preachers. Send in the Grand Kenyan’s main man-of-the-cloth Rev. Wright to show them all the light.
Yeah! Bluegrassy Gospel! Very rare here in New England.
So fatigued with the ‘Top 40 Christian’ Genre.
Black metro churches in MA and RI do live Sunday broadcasts
on WARV radio. MAN! They got some GREAT players and singers. But if only I could find a home church that has a chamber ensemble....Telemann and Bach. Heaven!
We have a lot of black families in my non-denominational church. They don’t have issues with skin color.
All races are welcome at my SBC church. We have had a few blacks attend over the years, but they never stay long - probably move to where they are with people that look like them. Their choice. What do these so-called “leaders” propose to do to change it?
People should be permitted to associate freely and in fact it’s enshrined in our Constitution. If that means some black people prefer an all black church, fine. If it means anyone prefers an all-anything church, fine. Those who wish to associate on the basis of other considerations, that’s fine too. Forced association is a primrose path to something that is not fine, wherever it’s tried.
Chuck Baldwin has said that the established denominational Churches are basically dead and I agree. He says underground/small/non affiliated/non 501C3 churches are the future. Search “Liberty Church Project”.
He has many articles about this and how Pastors/revs have sold out for comfort.
When the SBC starts to cave, you know we’re are heading to some dark times. But it’s inevitable. PC, Social Justice, Diversity are the power and gods today and very few are standing up to this evil.
“People like him says such things as a way to portray themselves in what they think is a more acceptable, morally superior, enlightened, levels.”
Exactly!
There really is no ‘leadership’ in the SBC. It is a collection of individual churches who support missionaries and seminaries with their funding. But the SBC only exists to make funding of missions and seminaries easier. No one in the SBC has the right to speak for any member congregation.
The “SBC leadership” has become a bunch of panty-waist liberals sucking up to the media. They care more about what the Washington Post thinks than the member churches. This is their way of saying, “I’m not a racist”. In my experience, those who proclaim they are not racists usually are.
I’m a member of a small SBC church. We have a few blacks, a few Filipinas, are more white than anything else and about half the congregation is retired. We’ll welcome anyone who repents, believes and is baptized. We don’t need some liberal white southerner worrying about racism in the south in 1840. Many of our members are old, but none of us are THAT old!
Good points. Few Baptist ministers — except some brave African-Americans — are standing up against the homosexual agenda.
Blacks can’t be racist, as Jesse Jackson said. Their ancestors were slaves, doncha know? :-)
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