Posted on 03/11/2021 7:11:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Some things are rather coincidental and also predictable. For Beth Moore, leaving the SBC in a coordinated announcement with the help of the pagan Religious News Service is one of those things. The coincidence being that one year ago she gave a sermon on a Sunday morning at a Southern Baptist church.
In this video I do a walkthrough of the sermon that Beth Moore gives at the aptly named Progressive Baptist Church where Charlie Dates preached. The sermon is pack full of bad exegesis. In December 2020, Charlie Dates would leave the Southern Baptist Convention because it was not adopting Critical Race Theory fast enough. A move by Beth Moore has long been expected, as she has immersed herself in Critical Theory and will probably milk the opportunity to become an ordained pastor at an egalitarian church.
The way she did so involved a superfluous fluff piece written by Bob Smietana.
Because of her opposition to Trump and her outspokenness in confronting sexism and nationalism in the evangelical world, Moore has been labeled as “liberal” and “woke” and even as being a heretic for daring to give a message during a Sunday morning church service.
Finally, Moore had had enough. She told Religion News Service in an interview Friday (March 5) that she is “no longer a Southern Baptist.”
“I am still a Baptist, but I can no longer identify with Southern Baptists,” Moore said in the phone interview. “I love so many Southern Baptist people, so many Southern Baptist churches, but I don’t identify with some of the things in our heritage that haven’t remained in the past.”
The article makes several attempts to defend Beth Moore from critics, and paint her as far more influential among Christians than she actually is. Her influence was on the decline. The article notes that Living Proof Ministries was raking in millions of dollars before Trump:
When Moore spoke out about Trump, the pushback was fierce. Book sales plummeted as did ticket sales to her events. Her criticism of Trump was seen as an act of betrayal. From fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2019, Living Proof lost more than $1.8 million.
What’s left out is her embrace of Critical Race Theory and Feminism which has hemorrhaged the audience she cultivated over decades. In essence, Beth Moore’s exit is a career move to reach a different audience. Just as Colin Kaepernick saw protesting as an answer to a declining NFL career, Beth Moore is going to virtue signal on her way out of the door to attract the woke, pronouns in bio, audience she has been cultivating the last few years.
Beth Moore is a false teacher. Therefore the Southern Baptist Convention is better off without her. And the thing about false teachers I have observed is that they get progressively worse over time. What started out as mediocre exegesis turned into a different gospel rather quickly.
There may be hope for the SBC yet.
She is not an evangelist.
She’s a charlatan.
She was never a pastor in God’s eyes, just like I was never a firetruck.
She can take little Stanley with Her and the black guy
It saddens me that the SBC has spent so many years joined at the hip with this woman. They’ve published and promoted her, preferring “butts in pews” and good sales at Lifeway ( https://www.lifeway.com/en/contributors/b/beth-moore ) over sound teaching.
I’ve travelled a lot and frequently have joined a SBC church. I usually started my look for a church in a new area by checking out the local SBC one. But the denomination is drifting, and it is drifting because the “leadership” is pulling it away from the truth. Hate to see it happen, but I now view “SBC” as a negative instead of a positive.
I use to buy boatloads from Lifeway. Expressed my concern to them about Moore but their response was not acceptable.
[Beth Moore is a false teacher.
Therefore the Southern Baptist Convention is better off without her.]
2 Peter 2:1-2 King James Version
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
Beth Moore is a false teacher. Therefore the Southern Baptist Convention is better off without her.
Amen to that!
Exactly. Her daughter that lives in Oregon is a very very liberal person. She seems to hate being white
Beth made a ton of money off the SBC. They were good to her for a long time.
Btw, she was not a pastor. She taught Bible study to only women. I got annoyed with her the last few years. Very fast talking and wasn’t getting much from it.
LOL, when I was in the USN back in the Seventies, I knew a wiry good old boy from Mississippi, and he was the most debauched, yet hilarious good natured guy I saw!
His name was Patterson.
He always had a big thing of snuff in his lower lip that made it jut out, and when he laughed, which was often, his lower lip was pulled up over the bottom of his lower teeth to keep the snuff in place, which gave his mouth a hilarious appearance.
He also told me he was a preacher, and even had some kind of card he showed me!
I swear...when I hear “preacher” I think of him, and can only imagine...:)
For what it is worth, I didn’t believe him at all when he told me that, but the thought was a riot!
Yeah, the LS has largely supplanted the SBC.
"When the author and Bible teach Beth Moore announced she was leaving the southern Baptist Convention this week, she cited the 'staggering' disorientation of seeing its leaders support Donald J. Trump, and the racism and sexism revealed in her community by his presidency."
That first paragraph should be used in journalism courses as a classic example of sophistry. Actually, if you read it closely, it backfires on the Times, because if Trump's presidency revealed racism and sexism, then it's a good thing.
Of course it didn't, however. It revealed those who can be frightened that any such beliefs should be made to reflect on them, if any in her congregation even supported her at all.
The media one-world-religion types are now going after the evangelicals full speed ahead.
The most important thing for evangelicals to do right now might be to listen for true guidance from the Lord about how to carry out the last part of your ministry to others. He will lead you if you are sincere in asking. It may be more on a personal level, but maybe not. Speaking in public and opening yourself up to attack will still be the role of some.
By the way, the title of the hagiography of Moore was “For Evangelical Women, An Electrifying Presence With Biblical Authority.”
I guess the Times knows better than I do about Biblical authority. If it’s in a headline.
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