“Why couldn’t this convention have been more concerned with lost souls....
.....instead of stirring dissension.”
“For one thing, that is getting into politics. The purpose of the Church is to spread the Gospel, not dabble into politics.”
A church flies a Confederate flag as a political statement. It has nothing to do with the Gospel. A Confederate flag does not draw all men to Christ. This resolution is a call to STOP being political and start focusing on Jesus.
The church does not exist to promote the southern culture of 1860 (or 2016). It exists to proclaim the Good News of forgiveness and changed lives in Jesus. Those things that hinder to Gospel need to be set aside, and the church needs to focus on proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord - not the Confederacy!
I have lived in Texas all my life and attended all sorts of churches, from independent Baptist to Episcopalian. I have never seen a Confederate flag in any of these churches.
Perhaps we should ban the American flag from churches. Most churches do have that flag in the vicinity of the pulpit or altar. The Bible does not require the flying of a national flag in church. Some people are offended by the Stars and Stripes: socialists, Communists, anarchists, foreigners not grateful to this country. Some churches fly the Christian flag. Muslims, Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, atheists, and others find the cross on that flag offensive since it contradicts their beliefs.
The Southern Baptist Convention is a predominantly Southern denomination, as are the Assemblies of God, the Presbyterian Church in America, the Churches of Christ, etc. Anglo-Southern culture is as much a part of their heritage as African-American culture is part of the heritage of historically black denominations. Great missionary works have been performed by these Southern churches over the years, even in the days of Jim Crow.
It is high time to preach the Gospel and to stop apologizing for being white.
PLEASE tell me where you’ve seen a Baptist church flying a Confederate flag??????
Or any church, for that matter!
In ALL my days of attending Baptist churches in the South, I never remember seeing anything even resembling this.
“Those things that hinder to Gospel need to be set aside . . .”
I am afraid St. Paul’s place in the Bible will not survive the discovery that he wrote Ephesians 6:5.
I’m 58 and have been southern baptist all my life and from Mississippi where the flag still flies proudly for now
I have never seen a confederate flag fly down here from any church period my entire life including during the turbulent 1960s
And neither have you
So quit race baiting and pretending it’s for God
You’re doing it for you
It’s what you do my man
Concern troll much?