Posted on 02/20/2012 3:19:02 PM PST by WKB
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The nation's largest protestant denomination will definitely remain "Baptist," but leaders are thinking about whether it will be "Southern" for much longer.
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Might as well be, they aren’t concerned about Christian truth, only money.
Meaning?
Local churches are to be independent.
A 'Convention' isn't Biblical.
It exists for one purpose-money.
Local Churches are to be independent, not dependent on a central authority.
Nothing Christian about a 'covention', a central authority over local churches.
It exists for money.
In the case of the SBC, you have a central authority, controlling local churches.
That is not Christian, since the local church is suppose to be independent.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am opposed to Calvinism.
I’m sorry but that is still your opinion. Do you have scripture to back it up?
How about Saint God Baptist Convention. I’m S.B. so I can suggest it. I think I saw it in a movie.
“Nothing Christian about a ‘convention’.
Local churches are to be independent.”
You are the most ignorant person I’ve ever seen WRT the Southern Baptist Church.
Each and every church is autonomous, owning their church on the church’s land. They own the parsonage, as well as everything else concerning the independent church.
The Pastor or Preacher don’t run the church...the deacons and the congregation do.
I would like to call you stupid, but I think I feel more sorry for your ignorance.
“Nothing Christian about a ‘covention’, a central authority over local churches. “
One more time...the SBC is in no way a central authority.
Each church is autonomous.
Where in the world did you get the idea that they weren’t?
You obviously have not done any research.
There’s no scripture involved.
That one is wrong WRT Southern Baptists. Each church is autonomous, and governs themselves.
How many other denominations can say the same thing?
“I just got back on FR.”
For someone who “just got back on FR” you surely were active in the forum before this post.
I’m not wrong nor ignorant. What I know is what you wrote.
It didn’t sound friendly at all.
Anymore questions?
Each church is linked to the convention and dependent on it for support.
It is you who is blowing smoke.
The Sick Southern Baptist System
13 Reasons to Get Out and Stay Out of the Southern Baptist Convention
http://www.biblebaptistpublications.org/southernbaptists.html
In the book of Acts, there are various local churches established, but there are no denominations or associations. In his epistles, Paul addresses local assemblies, but no denominations or associations are mentioned. In Revelation 1:4, we read these words: “John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne.” We do not read anything about denominations, conventions, or associations. Jesus then goes on to address letters to each of the seven churches independently in chapters two and three (Rev. 1:4, 11; 2:1, 8, 12, 18; 3:1, 7, 14). The Bible simply does not support denominationalism. New Testament churches are independent, autonomous, assemblies of Christians, and nothing more. I realize that Southern Baptist churches are not usually as denominationally oriented as, say, the United Methodists or the Roman Catholics, but they are still part of a denomination (see their web site), so they are still unscriptural. Are the Southern Baptists in a CULT? No, of course not, but they are in a sick and unscriptural system.
http://www.biblebaptistpublications.org/southernbaptists.html
WHY I AM NOT SOUTHERN BAPTIST
CONCLUSION
Friends in Christ, beware of the Southern Baptist Convention. In spite of the conservative renaissance and the many commendable steps that have been taken at the national level to distance the convention from modernism, it remains a deeply compromised, New Evangelical hodgepodge of truth and error. Though there are godly Southern Baptists and some good and Scriptural things in many Southern Baptist congregations, this good is leavened with Billy Graham ecumenism, Jimmy Carter modernism (Carter still teaches Sunday School in a Southern Baptist-associated congregation even though he has distanced himself from the SBC), rock & roll worldliness, contemporary worship charismaticism, Rick Warren pragmaticism, and Masonic Lodge paganism.
“Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?” (1 Cor. 5:6).
http://www.wayoflife.org/database/whynotsbc.html
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