Posted on 11/28/2023 8:32:21 AM PST by Morgana
In the past, we have alerted you to the disturbing reality that First Baptist Church Orlando, a Southern Baptist megachurch located in Orlando, Florida, has openly been baptizing practicing homosexuals. Shockingly, there has been a complete lack of accountability from the Southern Baptist Convention regarding these egregious actions to this day.
As early as 2016, The Dissenter shed light on First Baptist Church Orlando’s surrender to the ideologies of the gay movement, exposing how the church not only welcomed a group of homosexuals onto their pulpit following the Pulse Nightclub shooting but also allowed another pastor to declare that the “LGBTQ community” was the “chief cornerstone” of Christianity.
However, the situation escalated further in 2021. The associate pastor, Danny de Armas who also held the position of chair at the North American Mission Board (NAMB), shamelessly boasted from the stage about how their Southern Baptist church fully embraced homosexuals, transgender individuals, pro-abortion activists, and every other form of God-hater, granting them positions of service within the church.
Just one week later, the lead pastor, David Uth, doubled down and declared that not only would they continue down this path, but they were even partnering with NAMB to establish additional churches based on the same unscriptural ecclesiology.
Somehow, though, this church remains in good standing not only with the national Southern Baptist Convention but also with the Florida State Baptist Convention. Just over a week ago, Uth appeared on a panel discussion at the Florida convention where he lectured Southern Baptists on how churches should handle sexual immorality. During that discussion, he boasted about how his church opened the stage up to the LGBT community, gave them the microphone, and allowed them to say things that he now says his church doesn’t agree with. Yet, he claims that by doing so, it has opened the door to more relationships.
Among those relationships are a handful of practicing homosexuals who attend, worship, serve, and were baptized as members in good standing at his church. Thanks to the diligent research of The DISNTR along with Justin Peters and Casey Butner, we have uncovered irrefutable evidence of the church’s affirmation of homosexuality at the Florida megachurch, First Baptist Orlando. In the image below, one of the open, married-to-another-man homosexuals at David Uth’s church is posing as a volunteer in the church’s children’s ministry.
Uth says that his church doesn’t agree with their views on homosexuality, yet his church has baptized these people anyway. Below is a picture of the man above, during his “wedding” to his homosexual partner:
And below again is a picture of this same guy being baptized by Danny DeArmas, the associate lead pastor and a former VP of the SBC’s North American Missions Board, baptizing him.
And not only is this openly, practicing, married-to-another-man homosexual baptized at First Baptist Church Orlando, but he is also allowed to baptize other people:
Does this look like David Uth, the lead pastor of this church, “doesn’t agree” with these homosexuals who attend his church? Nope, it doesn’t look like it. In fact, it looks like they are fully affirmed, coddled, and allowed to live in unrepentant sin with no discipline, no call to repentance and faith, and no accountability at all. At the very least, David Uth should have been removed from the pastorate by his church. But the Florida State Baptist Convention, instead of giving David Uth a platform to spread his filthy false doctrine, should have voted his church out of the convention altogether. But this is the byproduct of weak, effeminate men masquerading as church leaders. David Uth is a liar!
Also mentioned is the church is allowing unrepentant homosexual sinners to assume positions of service in the church.
David Uth is a heretic, no doubt about it.
In the youth department no less.
How long before stories come out the kids were abused?
All this really shocks me because I remember the Southern Baptists in the 1980’s and they were hard core conservatives. I just can’t figure out what happened to them.
It isn’t all Southern Baptist churches/church members who are engaging in this vile abomination. Also, a gathering of people can call themselves whatever they want - Christians, Southern Baptists, men who say they are women, etc. - but it doesn’t mean it’s the truth.
Peach
I’m not all that surprised. I’ve watched quite a few of Uth’s sermons and have always found them lacking and without a strong point.
I attended there for many years when Jim Henry was the pastor. He was a fantastic preacher of the Word. He was also the President of the Southern Baptist Convention for several years.
Jude 4 (ESV): For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Since Bible prophecy makes clear the Rapture occurs after a great falling away and apostacy in the church, perhaps these men are graciously willing to sacrifice and spend eternity in hell by hastening the fulfillment of this prophecy.
If that’s not their intention, I am dumbfounded as to what their true intention might be. The Bible is full of warnings so these “pastors” certainly can’t claim they didn’t know.
The only way I can rationalize their behavior is that they believe the Bible to be fiction.
I know it’s “not all” it’s just that I remember in the 80’s a vast majority of them were not like this. In fact this was unheard of in any Baptist church.
The SBC “leaders” tend to worship numbers. It takes a lot for them to take action against a “mega-church”, including national attention so the other member churches can pressure the “leaders” to do what they are supposed to do.
Very few believe all of the Bible is God’s Word. So they feel free to pick and choose whatever in God’s Word is true or false based on their own understanding of the truth in the world. As of now, they are a church much like those in Corinth back in the day. Trying to be “Christian” while accepting current cultural sinful practices Many will die or fall away when the falsity of their antiGod prejudice yields its’fruit.
Liberals in positions of power within the conference who decided that God really didn’t mean what He said about homosexuality so they felt the need to speak for Him.
The SBC is about to have a great chasm and split like the rest of the denominations. The liberals see a chance to be hip at the cost of selling their souls to the gay mafia and liberals and pick up a few numbers. In reality they will dwindle into oblivion like the other denominations who went woke. They stand for nothing Biblical, and will accept anything man demands no matter how perverse it may be.
Jim Henry did a pretty good job in the pulpit. His wife, Jeannette (sp?) died in late 2019.
Anyway, FBC-Orlando has had some pretty shocking scandals over the years. I doubt I have knowledge of all that has happened there. But the warnings about false teachers and wolves among the sheep are appropriate in EVERY age.
It is not just the Catholics that have these problems.
I don’t know much about the scandals. Jim Henry was the interim preacher for a few months this year at The Church at The Cross. It used to be called First Baptist Church of Central Florida. Was good to see JH.
The pastor that resigned from Church at the Cross was Clayton Cloer and he left to become the President of Florida Baptist college. He was outstanding too.
sounds like he and andy stanley would get along just fine.
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