I was raised Baptist, and am not now, but half my family is. It’s a shock to see these former SBCs and independents fall. I would never have thought it possible.
Apostate church
“Are they going to start calling us the gay church in town?”
You should be so lucky....
Another: “One day very soon, the Southern Baptist Convention will find themselves marooned on a bigoted island of their own making, while the civilized world of sound, modern biblical exegesis goes on around them.”
I find this hard to believe. We who don’t subscribe to homosexual marriage or the whole LGBT sex change thing, will find ourselves marooned on a bigoted island??? Really???? while the civilized world goes on??? Implying that those of us on bigotry island are uncivilized???? What sort of liberal pap is this?????
Still don’t know any Christians - churches or congregations - that ordain gay & transgendered confused individuals. Only secular churches and congregations do that.
1 Thess 4:1-8 says they have rejected God.
The operative word is “former,” as in “former SBC church.”
I would change the name to: The First Church of Judas.
They will collapse within a few months.
“A former Southern Baptist Church...”
Operative and explaining words.
What about what God says about it, Pastor Dant?
>>’Are they going to start calling us the gay church in town?
No. There are no gay churches. But there are gay social clubs for therapeutic moral deists, which this organization has become.
Okay the headline says Baptist Church and the text says former Baptist. See how they lie?
http://firstbaptistgreenville.com is the web site of this anti-Bible “church”.
“former Southern Baptist Church”
Key words.
I am really surprised Cooperative Baptist Fellowship congregations didn’t start this several years ago.
Occasionally I still hear Southern Baptists lamenting the fighting that split the Convention. It started with the Battle for the Bible in the 70’s and finally ended with the purging of liberal apostates from SBC institutions and the formation of breakaway Cooperative Baptist Fellowship in the early 90’s. I don’t think those Southern Baptists understand just how liberal those who left the SBC really are. Jimmy Carter occasionally writes and speaks about the split in terms of left/right gender politics, but the truth is it was all about the Bible. Either the Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God or it’s not. Southern Baptists believe that it is, the CBF folks do not and they were busy spreading the Serpent’s poison throughout the SBC, so the split was Biblical and right.
I understand why some Southern Baptists hated the fighting. It got really uncomfortable because it divided friends and even some families. It sure divided my family and it ultimately ended some lifelong friendships, too. But my Southern Baptist friends must remember that “a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.” “What communion hath light with darkness?”
That could cover just about any perversion.
“We continue to stand firm in the Baptist world for the historic principles of our founders, as evident in our membership’s vote on May 2, 1999, to discontinue affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention of which our congregation was a charter member.”
So they remained baptist by rejecting the SBC. I guess years of liberalizing their theology has led to dumping scripture entirely...not much to be surprised at.
how large is the congregation? 10-12?