Posted on 01/28/2021 8:58:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
One of the easiest ways to oppose the church is to criticize Christians in communist magazines, like Time. Often Big Eva Woke Evangelicals have gained major publicity by badmouthing the church on a pagan platform, whether it be the New York Times, Washington Post, or in this case, Time Magazine. Russell Moore got to sound off on his thought on politics and the church to a pagan audience and it could not come across as more pretentious. The article is titled “Theologian Russell Moore Has a Message for Christians Who Still Worship Donald Trump.” Note, that this was not written by Russell Moore, but look at how Russell Moore is okay with being described.
The past few years have not been an easy time to be God’s lobbyist. A lot of folks claiming to represent the Almighty have been jostling for space in the corridors of Washington, with a lot of conflicting agendas. Their methods often seem mutually exclusive with the Christian tenet that one should love one’s neighbor. So perhaps it’s not surprising that shortly after the events of Jan. 6, the guy whose actual paid job it is to try to get those in power to think about a higher power got about as ticked off as a polite Southern gentleman of faith is allowed to get.
Getting called God’s lobbyist is probably the most undeserved superfluous title that Russell Moore has ever been called. The article makes no mention of any accomplishments Russell Moore and the ERLC have had in their lobbying quest. After all where was the ERLC when government was locking down churches? Nowhere until Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed. But it’s not like the pagans will see through that. After going on about the false narrative of January 6th, Time writes:
The pushback against Moore is surprising. Born in Biloxi, Miss., and ordained at 23, he checks dozens of typical conservative boxes, from his gentle demeanor, to his five sons, two of whom are adopted from Russia, to the family photos he posts of the entire clan clad in khaki pants and navy sport coats. He publicly supported the right of a Colorado baker to decline to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. He would love to see Roe v. Wade overturned. He believes gay Christians should remain celibate. He has also championed protection for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients, undocumented immigrants and refugees. He helps guide church thinking on living wills and end-of-life decisions, weighing in on the role of doctrine if people are in terrible pain.
You can tell by now that this is a fluff piece. If it’s not meant to read by pagans, it’s meant to be marketed to Big Eva from preventing some sort of no confidence vote of his performance and status. By being seen this way by Time Magazine, Russell Moore is improving his street cred for worldliness which Big Eva certainly values. Consider how the author continues:
In many ways, Moore’s job is to pull his fellow Baptists into the future. In others, it is to try to prevent the culture from abandoning convictions that are several millennia old, some of which–like celibacy outside marriage–no longer seem to make sense to most people. “I think the problem with evangelical Christianity in America is not that we are too strange but that we are not strange enough,” says Moore. “We should be countercultural in loving God and loving our neighbors in ways that ought not to make sense except for the grace of God.”
The arrogant assessment of Russell Moore continues.
Often Moore has to tap-dance around the gap between his church’s beliefs and its behavior. He dismisses as a “manufactured controversy” the criticism of six SBC seminary presidents who in November released a public condemnation of critical race theory. “I don’t find any postmodern theory motivating those who are concerned for racial reconciliation and justice,” says Moore. “I find that what motivates such things is the Bible.” And while Moore has set himself apart from those who support the President, he declines to condemn those who opted to vote for Trump because they believed in the platform, not the man.
In this paragraph, we get some substance from Moore. Though unsurprising, he comes out in support woke Seminary presidents and professors. It cannot be any clearer that Russell Moore is an enemy within the church.
Christians should not criticize the church in pagan settings any more than a husband should not demean his wife in front of his friends. There is a time and a place for Christians to debate the flaws of other Christian practices but communist magazines are never the place.
The SBC is not a denomination. It is merely an organization of independent Baptist churches.
The Lord is very clear about what to think about Pharisees.
Regardless, the affiliated churches are responsible for the SBC’s leadership as well as association leadership. Votes matter.
Certainly you are right with regard to a majority of those voting. This is why there has been a mass exodus of churches from the SBC in recent years. I expect this trend to continue.
The SBC is, IMHO, under the same satanic assault the entire country is under. That, plus too many of the entrenched professional Southern Baptists seem to be trying to prove, Jack Kemp-like, that THEY aren’t racists - even if those independent churches in the SBC secretly are!
Don’t know about the SE USA ones, but none of the SBC churches I’ve known in the western USA are slightly racist. Maybe Russell More and others who have been in the SBC forever have guilty consciences?
Sorry Russell, but I DO NOT. I have LOTS of things to repent of, but NOT racism!
I personally know of two SBC churches that called a black pastor, and then were split after the black pastor started accusing all the white guys who didn’t submit to him “racists”. Even though those white guys had voted FOR the new pastor!
This is an evil swamping the county. Not just politics. I’m convinced it is a spiritual attack first and political second.
"And all of this was even more confusing because many of the people who would say boldly in public how great this leader was, would then say, privately, the exact opposite. Behind closed doors, they said [President Trump] was mentally unstable. That he was “an immoral man worse than LBJ ever dreamed about being.” - Russell Moore, RussellMoore.com, 1/11/2021
Wait, where did I just hear this from a supposed "Christian leader of faith"? Oh, yeah LOL, this guy who wrote this identical anti-Trump screed just three days later.
"Did we sell our souls by voting for [President] Trump? Did we make a deal with the devil that was bound to end in failure and disgrace?" - Michael Brown, ChristianPost.com, 1/14/2021
From the articles I’ve ready Greer is just as bad as Moore. Both are destroying the SBC with their liberal ideology which isn’t Christian in the least.
Our local First Baptist Church went hard left in the 1980’s, women pastors and deacons and total leftist theology. My wife as a teen left that church and told the pastor you ignore the Bible and pick and choose and add to it as you see fit and I won’t go along with it, his response, bye. They have the lowest numbers of attendance in town, it’s literally a dying congregation. I had a member I know telling me how upset they were a few years back. Their youth choir director was about to marry her girlfriend and some members were in a tizzy. I wanted to say to them, why are you suddenly hung up on this point you have conceded every other Christian doctrine to satan, but I held my tongue.
Right now due to Covid our church according to the county missionary is the only one actively having services Sunday morning and evening and Wednesday evenings in our county in person. As he put it they closed themselves down and are letting the devil devour them from within. Our attendance is down from pre-covid by a third but it is slowly returning but many members are using covid as an excuse and say I’ll just watch on facebook and the pastor is about ready I think to limit our facebook to rebroadcasting later rather than live to try and take away that convenient excuse. Tithes wise our amounts have went up the entire year of 2020 and has had a steady growing increase.
Satan offered Jesus power as one of the Temptations. I’m sure he’s involved in pitics.
RE: Did we sell our souls by voting for [President] Trump? Did we make a deal with the devil that was bound to end in failure and disgrace?” - Michael Brown,
And how did he answer the RHETORICAL question? Send me the link to the complete article so we can read it IN CONTEXT!
So, you are actually asserting you do not know that the underlined portion of #26 is "the link to the complete article"? Wow. Ok.
Not only is it "the link to the complete article", but it also has a simple html component that assures "the link to the complete article" will open in a new browser tab.
Russell Moore is a Southern Baptist.
No, Russell Moore is President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. The ERLC is the moral and public policy entity of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
I see, as is your habit, you only read one of my responses and ignore the other. I actually READ the article you alluded to and copied and pasted the more complete response Dr. Brown wrote in answer to his RHETORICAL QUESTION.
Did you bother to read post #30 directly after my first response?
One other thing that makes Moore what he is:
Before attending seminary, Moore served for four years as an aide to pro-life Democratic Congressman Gene Taylor of Mississippi.
I'm not stultified by your lack of knowledge, but merely addressing it in the order it is received...
Ok, then what’s your response to post 30?
That one quoted him more fully unlike you posting him only partially.
There are a couple of other liberals / progressives in the SBC. I didn’t bookmark those articles, if you have them feel free to ping me or PM me. I am seriously concerned the the fox is in the henhouse.
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