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Southern Baptist Convention leaders dropping 'Southern' from name over slavery connection
The Hill ^ | 09 15 2020 | Celine Castronuovo

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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To: Theodore R.

I still attend a Southern Baptist Church and we sing the old hymns, have Wednesday and Sunday evening services as well as Sunday morning services and Sunday school. Our governor ordered churches to close services or do online/parking lot services. We continued with CDC guidelines 10 in church and the rest of the congregation online or in the parking lot and the lot was always full. When the pastor was preaching instead of amens, you would hear car horns going in the parking lot. Our offerings actually went up in this time frame. We have reopened now with services and Sunday school and before the virus averaged around 100-120 in the morning service, 50-70 evening services and 40-50 on Wednesday evenings. Now morning 70-90, evening 40-50 and Wednesday same 40-50.

The pastor and the assistant pastors are mainly preaching the Word about getting people saved and don’t get all balled up in doctrine. They will call a sin a sin popular or not. I had a friend who attended and she was all excited about the Supreme Court gay marriage ruling and the pastor said little that Sunday but the next service he let it be known that God hasn’t changed his mind on the sin even if man, the law and some churches have. She left the church and went back to the Methodist church and asked me about it and I said seriously, you think the pastor and deacons were all going to throw away the Bible and accept liberal theology and sin because it was popular? You really don’t know them.

During the parking lot services the pastor would be preaching and Facebook was filled with comments and you could hear the 10 people left in the building spread out shouting AMEN! Well the local health department got a complaint and they tried to shut us down on Easter Sunday, threatened to send the State Police to which the pastor said send 3 troopers and I’ll preach to all of them. We contacted the state Attorney General and filed a complaint and the AG came down on our side and said meet your following CDC guidelines, contact us if the local health department tries anything, they didn’t. It boiled down to someone getting their toes stepped on by the pastor on Facebook...

I look for them to part ways with the SBC not because of the name but because they are going liberal. The liberal churches in our town are still closed and bleeding membership. They are spiritually deader than four o’clock on a Friday.


61 posted on 09/15/2020 11:31:55 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: yesthatjallen

Idiots. It was never called “Confederate Baptist’’. The North had southern sympathizers.


62 posted on 09/15/2020 11:33:18 AM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: sarge83

Huge smile on my face.....thank you Sarge83!


63 posted on 09/15/2020 11:39:15 AM PDT by yoe (Vote for President Trump!..Keep America Great and protected by the US. Constitution.)
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To: pollywog

If ‘they’ have lost that view, the whole gospel is just thrown out.

Maranatha!!!

We see history making and looking for the return of Jesus!!!


64 posted on 09/15/2020 11:42:32 AM PDT by pilgrim
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To: sarge83

May I ask where this church is?

Like to watch several pastors but......... the music is like eating cotton candy. Fluff. No depth!!

Singing off the wall is not a cup I can drink from.

Too, old timey or something!


65 posted on 09/15/2020 11:46:16 AM PDT by pilgrim
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To: yesthatjallen

I hope they get their 30 pieces of silver and then find that rope and tree they are looking for.


66 posted on 09/15/2020 12:32:16 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: yesthatjallen

How about the BBC, Bolshevik Baptist Convention?


67 posted on 09/15/2020 12:34:25 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: yesthatjallen

Well, now, this photo ought to confuse the Mid-Latitude Woketist Convention, I think...

/sarc

68 posted on 09/15/2020 2:51:15 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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69 posted on 09/15/2020 2:52:00 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: pilgrim

Sent you a message.


70 posted on 09/15/2020 3:26:42 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: Don Corleone
Political Correctness will bring the Death of America the Southern Baptist Convention!

There. I fixed it.

71 posted on 09/15/2020 3:39:18 PM PDT by Gritty (Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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To: circlecity

Jesus was NOT a refugee. When God told Joseph to take his family into Egypt, He was just telling him to take them to another part of the Roman Empire, the entire area belonged to Rome but I suspect that this “preacher” knows this.


72 posted on 09/15/2020 3:46:19 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Billthedrill

Southern Hemisphere. Southern Cross.
Stop it!

Stop it! Oh, I am so triggered that the pearls I’m clutching are making little dents in my hand. I hope you’re happy.
..................................................

Corpus Christi, Texas.


73 posted on 09/15/2020 3:49:14 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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