One wonders, where do those guys worship and better yet, to whom do those guys worship, other than themselves?
Concerning, but I have faith in the SBC rank and file.
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I am a Southern Baptist. We need to make it perfectly clear to anyone who is interested that we not only believe in God, but we believe God. God has made it clear what we are to believe in his Holy Word known as the Bible. If we succeed in expressing to the world that we believe God, then there will be no need for articles such as this post is dealing with. Our positions will be unified and crystal clear.
How do we as Southern Baptists let the world know—from the pulpits of our churches. Too few pastors are preaching against the power of the organized evil that we are confronted with today. My pastor is as guilty as one can be. He refuses to preach against abortion, homosexuality, same sex marriage, porno and other sins happening all around us. This leads to a confused fellowship. We must be different from the world by being more like Jesus Christ.
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Apparently, the Southern Baptist churches can adopt the issues that the SBC promulgates and toss the others. It’s a pretty loose confederation with a lot of leeway. I’m interested in finding out how much power they have over each individual church.
The Baptist church has a long association with the Democrat Party. This undermines their superficial conservatism, which is often merely traditionalism.
I have never been a Baptist, but I was educated in a non-denominational school that was functionally Anabaptist, and which significantly chose Baptist preachers almost exclusively for our weekly Chapels.
Once I got past the legalistic no-dancing, no-smoking, et cetera, routine, I found them to be quite “liberal”; in fact, some of my fellow students went on to become flaming Marxists - and some of those attended SBC seminary.
The Frankfurt School runs most seminaries now, anyway, in my opinion.
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Being Southern Baptist most of my life, I can tell you the organization is moving too far into the Calvinistic camp.
During Sunday offering, I want to put a note in the offering plate that reads: “Sorry. Nothing this week. Must have been pre-destined”. But my wife won’t let me.
We get all those SBC gurus in our church all the time...Al Mohler, Bob Russell, a bunch of professors from the Seminary, etc (that’s because I’m in Louisville and so are they).