Posted on 06/04/2021 4:08:27 AM PDT by fwdude
Russell Moore’s departure from the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and his role at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) has many conservatives in the denomination celebrating the end of a seven-year tumultuous period of declivity in both practical doctrine and orthopraxy. On the other hand, this author believes that despite Moore’s exodus, the damage he left behind by turning much of the denomination into a progressive political action group will likely be far too much for the denomination to clean up.
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Over the last seven years, Moore brought those Democrat politics into the Church, using his platform to push for such things as open borders and amnesty, socialism, and Marxism.
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It is truly incredible that Moore, the vile piece of ordure, was allowed the platform of the SBC to pursue his anti-Christian, democrat agenda unopposed for so long.
1 Timothy 4:1
The problem isn’t Moore.
The problem is all those senior people who backed Moore for leadership. The rot was there before Moore, he just gave a face to it.
No. But professional Baptists deeply want one. No congregation recognizes any authority above their church but God. None of these Baptist “leaders” you hear about can do anything regarding anything with a church.
This leadership group is a cooperative collaboration on missionaries, publications etc.
But this group is jealous of hierarchical structures and really want to be seen that way.
“Woke” Church = A dead Church.
Why did it take 7 years to get rid of Russell Moore?????
No one wanted to step into the cesspool qnd remove the floater.
“The problem is all those senior people who backed Moore for leadership.”
That is true to a certain extent, but the SBC is loosely organized and a small determined group can work its will more easily. It takes a strong effort to counter them. Liberals were thrown out about thirty years ago at a convention but true to Liberal ideology of never giving up, they wormed their way back in.
One tactic for the local church congregations is to cut off the money flowing into the hands of the SBC “professionals.”
Agreed
No congregation recognizes any authority above their church but God.That's what I thought, but I didn't know the rest of the back story.
Sodomy is a religion that spreads (as a religion) by infiltrating and subverting existing institutions. The already got "mainline" Protestantism, Reform Judaism, and are working hard on getting the Roman Catholics (partial success only).
So of course the Southern Baptists, too.
Thank God this heretic is gone! I hope Albert Mohler is not elected president. He talks a good game, but he brought in Moore and ran cover for him for years.
I completely agree with you. Mohler is a big part of the problem.
If a transgender person came into our church, came into my life, I think my disposition would be to refer to them by their preferred pronoun when we want to talk about gender. I will be clear with him on the truth. The question is: Is that the battlefront that you want to choose?
No hills to die on makes for rather worthless salt.
DesertRhino: "No. But professional Baptists deeply want one. No congregation recognizes any authority above their church but God. None of these Baptist “leaders” you hear about can do anything regarding anything with a church. This leadership group is a cooperative collaboration on missionaries, publications etc."
I beg to differ on one point. Affiliating churches must at least adhere to biblical dogma encapsulated in the Baptist Faith & Message. Otherwise the affiliation is meaningless. Churches have been expelled from membership for deviating on this point, particularly on the issue of the acceptability of homosexuality as anything other than a morally evil condition. That authority to expel, or "disfellowship," is powerful enough to deter many churches from wandering into questionable teaching or to prevent many liberal churches from joining to begin with.
Call it a hierarchy if you want, but every group which values its common beliefs as sacred deserve a bulwark against interlopers who would corrupt the entire affair.
That’s not what they want. It’s not a matter of using their preferred pronoun. What they really want is to penalize you for disagreeing with their choice.
They were born that way but keep in mind that the way they were born can change.
This happened with Irons Church up in the Pacific Northwest. A cross-dressing man got involved and was included "as a woman" for quite a while. But when a woman's weekend retreat was announced and the man wanted to join them "as a woman," he was apologetically declined for the obvious reason that the retreat would involve intimate spaces for overnight accommodations with other actual women. Of course, the cross-dresser immediately blurted out his ordeal to several of many homosexual propaganda outlets, who made the story go viral nationwide overnight, but what did the church expect to happen?
Now, the Gaystapo has a church doxing site, ChurchClarity, which targets churches which won't accept them fully as "hateful bigots."
After 40+ years mostly within the SBC, I’ve concluded the independent baptists are right. The SBC has ceased to serve a useful purpose. I don’t trust its missionary efforts or its seminaries, so what is the point?
It isn’t just Russell Moore. He’s been allowed to romp around, stomping on other baptists, lying about other baptists, and NO ONE stopped him!
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