Very misleading headline. Nothing has changed.
Shorter: The Church is in retreat.
Let that camel’s nose in the tent, and she’ll soon be wearing a clerical collar with her “wife” in the front row applauding Baptist “diversity.”
Well, it was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, and I don’t mind saying so. We love the homosexuals the same way we love the thieves, addicts, and wife beaters. Sin is what it is. And I get tired of hearing the divorce comparison. There are some scriptural grounds for divorce. There are no scriptural grounds for sodomy.
Of course a call compassion gets translated as acceptance of the deviance. There’s no time for nuance or even a full discussion of the difference. But, of course, neither is there an interest in hearing that.
Interesting thing that I see is mention of heterosexual divorce. Back in my Baptist days, he would have heard, “You have left off from preaching and gone to meddling.”
Softer? Like a spiked baseball bat vs. a steel mace? That’s softer!
Regardless of what comes of this, it illustrates one of the reason’s I’m not a Southern Baptist.
“These are people that are in our churches.”
Spit, puke. NPR found their ear-scratching false prophet. Maybe we should try just preaching the Word of God. KJV!
That is a tactic currently in vogue. Don’t allow divorce? Then you are a hateful priest/pastor/church who is out of touch with the majority of people in the pews.
Allow it? Then how can you say anything about homosexuals since you can’t control your own people.
And if that fails, bring up that there are a lot of fat rich people in your church, and the church should force them to give up their McDoubles and Buicks For The Greater Good (tm) and stop talking about homosexuals.
In short, the people driving this really want you to stop talking about homosexuals. When I run into them in a church function (which is rare for me now, but not as rare where I used to live) I often wonder who they know is homosexual.
Baptist ping
“We’re all in agreement that the cultural war is over when it comes to homosexuality, especially when it comes to gay marriage,” Scroggins told the pastors”
Scoggins must want to “marry” his boyfriend, or maybe his bass boat or refrigerator. A woman married a ferris wheel yesterday. Happened in Florida. Wonder how many food stamps she’ll get for her giant ferris wheel.
“....But Scroggins says they’re sitting in his pews and shouldn’t be the butt of preacher humor. He calls that “redneck theology.””
I will never understand the mindset of putting down the people who support you the most in order to gain the favor of those who despise you.
This groveling, condescending, unprincipled twit should be run out of leadership from any group he’s a part of.
Thank God that each Baptist church is an independent entity, not required to follow the dictates of the so-called "leaders". So, Rev. Moore can say what he pleases, but as for me and my (church) family, we will serve the Lord!
“These are people that are in our churches.”
If he’s referring to homosexuals, they are not in SBC churches as members. Perhaps they attend, but you can’t be an actual member unless you’re a born-again Christian. A person won’t/can’t practice homosexuality if he/she is a born-again Christian. Ergo...
Getting all squishy on what’s in the Bible has never had a good ending.
What a godless, gutless coward.
He may not be interested in war, but war is STILL interested in him.
After all, it has worked out so well for the Epicopagan(oops!) Episcopal church.
I think he's spot on with this comment. For far too long the church has been silent on the issues of divorce, shacking up/living in sin, etc.
The homosexual movement is a natural outcome of this neglect by the church.
There have always been liberal Baptist preachers. They should do what Jimmy Carter did and leave for a more liberal convention.