Posted on 01/28/2021 8:58:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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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