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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NOOOOOO!!
Wanna bet that woke go broke can happen in religion too?
So ends another formerly Christian church.
They might want to drop “Baptist,” too.
Too overtly Christian, doncha think?
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Actually, not Christian enough. The bible does not support denominationalism.
It’s way past time that all Baptist denominations drop their man made organizational style of religion and focus on how the Bible says churches ought to be run.
Autonomous.
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?
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Good question. Which needs to be asked of the Y.
Formerly known as the YMCA.
In many cases “Southern Baptist” churches have cancelled Sunday evening services because of the lack of attendance, and they have largely dropped traditional hymns as well in favor of modern “choruses.” I left the Southern Baptists in 2016 and went with an Independent Baptist congregation, which has hymns and Sunday evening services. Most Southern Baptist churches are now called “Baptist” with no modifiers.
It will need to be voted on at an annual convention. I’m guessing it won’t pass.
“So, now “southern” has been added to the list of words that are to be eliminated? The goal is to criminalize non-PC thoughts.”
I guess I need to change my screen name. I wonder if spelling it wrong helps?
They might want to drop “Baptist,” too.
Too overtly Christian, doncha think?
Yes! That’s not Southern Baptist I grew up with. That’s Satan slithering into churches that really aren’t church’s at all......just another way to fool the masses.....;(
They might want to drop “Baptist,” too.
Too overtly Christian, doncha think?
Yes! That’s not Southern Baptist I grew up with. That’s Satan slithering into churches that really aren’t church’s at all......just another way to fool the masses.....;(
They ought to drop Baptist.
They mostly no longer baptise, they make people wade in a fiberglass tub
Such a great disappointment and I’m not even Baptist. Where have all the sane people gone?
***So, now “southern” has been added to the list of words that are to be eliminated?***
I think it was Brother Dave Gardener who said he spoke two languages. “Southern and Ni-—r.”
Now I suppose it is now “S———n and (fill in the blank).”
Or they could call themselves the “Second Baptists” since “First” is already taken.
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LOLOLOL
No, he wasn't a "white southerner." But where does the "refugee" come in?
Amen!!!
Racist Egyptians didn't have much of a refugee relief program back in those days.
I never saw this coming when they announced their attack on their southern roots.
Soon the leaders of this cult will announce the need to topple the Washington Monument.
Shameful pussies. (Never regretted leaving the SBC church and attending independent Baptist churches instead.)
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