Posted on 09/15/2020 9:26:17 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention are steadily removing the “Southern” part of their name in an effort that Convention President J.D. Greear said is essential following a summer of Black Lives Matter protests and increased calls for racial justice reform.
In an interview with The Washington Post published Tuesday, Greear said there has been more support to adopt the new name “Great Commission Baptists,” both because of the changing climate in the U.S. and because many have long believed the “Southern Baptist” title no longer adequately encompasses the approximately 50,000 churches that now exist around the globe.
“Our Lord Jesus was not a White Southerner but a brown-skinned Middle Eastern refugee,” Greear told The Post. “Every week we gather to worship a savior who died for the whole world, not one part of it. What we call ourselves should make that clear.”
These statements come after the leader also announced in June that he would be retiring a historic gavel named for a slaveholder that Southern Baptists had continued to use to open their meetings.
“While we do not want to, nor could we, erase our history, it is time for this gavel to go back into the display case at the Executive Committee offices,” Greear said in a statement at the time.
The convention formed in 1845, splitting from Northern Baptists over Southern support for slavery. While the group had a historic drop in membership last year, it remains the largest Protestant denomination in the United States with 14.5 million members.
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I actually thought this was Babylon Bee
....Leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention are steadily removing the “Southern” part of their name....
Then how can one tell the difference between the Southern Baptists and the liberal Baptists that are usually associated with the North?
No one should bow before “Black Lives Matter”! It is NOT a movement for “racial justice”, but a movement for communist revolution!!!!
How about dropping the Democrat party over slavery, the KKK, Segregation, Separate but Equal, voting rights of blacks in the South??
I dropped the ‘Southern’ also. Being a Baptist since cradle roll days, I also dropped the Baptist. They are nothing like the church I grew up in.
Reminds me of how the Campus Crusade for Christ changed their name to “Cru”.
The official explanation said that they do a lot of work outside of college campuses nowadays. But how does that explain dropping Christ from their name?
Sheesh. He may as well have thrown in "undocumented alien".
As a Baptist from the south who says “southern Baptist” but not in connection with those weirdo, I object to their use of the phrase.
The SBC is too Marxist ‘social justice’ skewed lately and Calvinist. They can drop off the face of the earth as far as I’m concerned. And I’ve been a southern baptist my entire life.
Southern is now a dirty word and Jesus is a “brown-skinned Middle Eastern ‘refugee’”
I think that's where the left gets their ideas.
fyi
Don’t bow to the culture.
I like your thinking, but methinks it should be "In other news, the directions of the compass will now be called East, West, North and #BlackLivesMatter".
Did not realize Jesus was a refugee! He came voluntarily from heaven to endure danger and persecution and a horrible death, crucifixion.
[Definition of refugee:
one that flees especially : a person who
flees to a foreign country or power to
escape danger or persecution]
Thank you Lord, for coming and dying for my sins.
“...but a brown-skinned Middle Eastern refugee,”
As a Southern Baptist, I can witness to the fact that this man is a complete idiot.
Is is okay if we still drink Mint Juleps and sweet iced tea?
They might want to drop “Baptist,” too.
They might want to drop Greear before they end up like the BSA.
look out South Dakota... they’re coming for you next!
That's northist. Why should north be the direction at the top of maps? A slur against the parts of the planet mostly occupied by people of color.
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