Alan Atchison, editor of Capstone Report (www.capstonereport.com) joins the Big Brown Gadfly to talk about the scandals rocking the Southern Baptist Convention and launch Bobby's series, "The Total Depravity of the Southern Baptist Convention."
Posted on 07/03/2021 2:28:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Alan Atchison, editor of Capstone Report (www.capstonereport.com) joins the Big Brown Gadfly to talk about the scandals rocking the Southern Baptist Convention and launch Bobby's series, "The Total Depravity of the Southern Baptist Convention."
The Southern Baptist Convention, or SBC, has had a bad month of June. In a controversial annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, the messengers, or voting representatives of churches, elected as president Ed Litton of Alabama.
The election had many suspicious aspects, which this article will discuss momentarily and which should not be dismissed. But even if we take seriously Litton’s surge to the presidency, interceding events have turned his rise into a monumental embarrassment. After being paraded on MSNBC and CNN as the darling of mainstream liberal media, he ran afoul of his own constituency immediately.
Members of the SBC discovered a critical dishonesty problem in Litton’s recent service as a pastor. He had delivered multiple sermons that resembled so precisely earlier sermons by J.D. Greear that one cannot avoid the conclusion that Litton plagiarized. While some people may claim that “plagiarism” as a term does not refer to sermons the same way we would apply the word to student writing, such claims are spurious. Any respectable seminary will train pastors not to deliver sermons that other people wrote without acknowledging the source in the sermon itself.
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How long is his term of office?
As a rule I don’t get along with Baptists very well. I think they are nuts, too much, Dogma and Midrash, however that is my opinion.
I’m a LCMS Lutheran, that streams a Presbyterian service and Zooms Presbyterian bible study. There are no local Lutheran churches where I live.
Any religion that bans drinking and dancing is not a religion but a cult. The Bible allow for both, but baptists think they are better then God. They find out that God won’t be mocked. Those fires are going to be uncomfortable for the Baptist’s.
That’s funny. My church certainly doesn’t object to dancing.
Though when I drink a Budweiser I tend not to tell anyone at church. Except for the guys I have a Budweiser with from church :D
Pray for them, not criticize them. Baptists are part of the Body of CHRIST.
...how long... well, it could be eternity.
Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?”
He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Christian or a Jew?” He said, “A Christian.” I said, “Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?” He said, “Protestant.” I said, “Me, too! What franchise?” He said, “Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?” He said, “Northern Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?”
He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region.” I said, “Me, too!”
Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.” I said, “Die, heretic!” And I pushed him over.
~ Emo Phillips
Thank you.
Baptists, it’s said, won’t have sex standing up for fear someone’ll accuse ‘em of dancing.
You certainly have a very mistaken opinion of The Southern Baptist Church. Perhaps you should read the by-laws of one of it’s churches. That being said I am praying for you and your family.
What does God think about liars?
You must be part of the cult. Not shocked!!!!!!
“..Pray for them, not criticize them. Baptists are part of the Body of CHRIST...”
Yes, long ago I made a pack with myself never to put down any denomination that believes in the Trinity. I will verbally support them all.
I’ll never forget the day, long ago, when my little Southern Baptist grandson said to me, “Grandma, you are going to Hell because you wear jeans and drink beer.”
Of course he was parroting his redneck blowhard father, who was and still is a Baptist pastor.
BTW, this little boy grew up to rebel, join the navy, serve four years in the submarine service, sailed the seven seas, had fun while in port, and married a wonderful Catholic girl!
Morton Downey Jr. had an answer for this:
Yes, they are part of the body of Christ...the ass!
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It worked for Joe Biden; people become leaders today by stealing. (Except for one, which is why they hate him like Hitler.)
LCMS here too, and there's a zillion LCMS churches that stream live. My church doesn't, but the one next town over does https://www.glwh.org/, and if you like it 100% liturgical go to https://www.ielcth.org/ from Terre Haute.
And tell your Presbyterian friends that tulips are better than one...
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