Posted on 09/15/2023 8:05:56 AM PDT by Morgana
In a move that should surprise no one, the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission board of trustees unanimously elected Pastor Kevin Smith as their Chairperson- a bold move given the disdain and contempt Smith has for so many Southern Baptists within his denomination. According to a press release from the ERLC “this is the first time a Black man has held the position in the history of the entity.”
You’ll recall during 9Mark’s 2022 ‘The State of the SBC‘ assessment on the first day of the SBC General Convention, Kevin Smith, former Executive director of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware and current teaching pastor at Family Church in Palm Beach spoke to Southern Baptists and accused some of them of “losing their minds” after a black man was elected president in 2012, on account of their racism, and further accused many Southern Baptists of bending over and presenting their proverbial behinds to “whore” themselves out over supporting and voting for Trump.
Smith, responding to a question about how he feels about the state of the SBC from 10 years ago to now:
I’d love to know what some white brothers think about this. White (unintelligible). You mentioned ten years as a window and I’m less hopeful ten years later. I think some Southern Baptists lost their minds when a black man was elected president. Not all, but some.
I think some Southern Baptists were unloving to black people beginning in 2012 with the killing of Trayvon Martin. I don’t mean agree about politics or policy…I just mean giving a darn that somebody else is hurting who is supposed to be your brother or sister in Christ.
And I think some Southern Baptists just bent over and became political whores with this whole Trump stuff. And if black innerrantists like Ralph West (Pastor of Houston’s The Church Without Walls who announced he left the SBC) feels alienated and black innerrantists like John Onwuchekwa (Pastor of Cornerstone Church in Atlanta who left the SBC) feels alienated and black innerrantists like Charlie Dates (Left the SBC) feels alienated, I just wonder if white brothers think this has been kind of crazy- black/white stuff going on, Asian, Hispanic. Just people who aren’t white feeling like they’re tolerated but not really embraced.
I’m not talking about me. I’ve been here thirty years so I got true friendships, but people in their twenties haven’t been here thirty years. So I just wanted to (unintelligible) what white brothers think the race thing is in the SBC?”
At the time, not one panelist (Mark Dever, Danny Akin, Aron Menikoff, Jonathan Leeman, Matt Chandler) rebuked him for his insults and incendiary statements. No one corrected him for suggesting that the “some” weren’t regulated to a handful of isolated yokel hillfolk, but rather make up a large and significant minority. He had no proof that the SBC is filled with this rampant, overt racism that rears its ugly head because of a black man getting in power, and not because Obama is a Democrat with awful policies. In a mark of true leadership, all stayed quiet and let that linger for the rest of the panel.
As far as becoming political whores and bending over so the bad orange man could impregnate us with racial ideologies, this is not the winsomeness that he was insisting we emulate during his later conference talk that he gave in front of the whole convention, making him quite the hypocrite.
But this is all par for the ERLC, so congrats, we guess?
“Pastors” are experts on “bending over”.
He thinks he is not a political whore for voting Democrat?
All I can say to Baptists, go ahead and present your proverbial behinds to the Democrats and see what it gets you.
Don’t complain when Democrats don’t pay for services rendered.
In the commercial world, as the hegemony of politics overwhelmed advertising, subscribers and buyers did the same simplest thing. They walked away.
The hegemony of politics of a certain ideological bent has believed that rising to positions of "choke points" will win the day have always been surprised that people leave. Or don't buy. Or enroll. Not all at once, But over time. Individually. Then....
Schisms. Collapses. Disinterest replacing interest. Non-involvement diluting involvement. Diminishing market share.
When everything is politics, politics will have won nothing.
and he’s got the biggest budget in the SBC
I’m sure he just loves himself some Andrew Gillum.
Remember that it wasn't just that one killing. The 24/7 Dim narrative then was that it represented a trend of much white-on-black violence. And it was a bigger lie than Obama's father telling his mother he'd support their son. See the data for yourself at https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2012.xls.
white-on-black: 193
black-on-white: 431
white-on-white:2,614
black-on-black:2,412
What kind of “mission” trips did he organize and what message did he deliver?
If it’s some food, blankets, medicine and drinking water - that’s not what Christ told us to do.
Too many “missionaries” claiming that this type of work without the True Gospel of Christ is their christian duty.
A well fed and clothed son of hell is just as damned as a starving one.
Guy sounds like a MAJOR clown!
I listened to the video Protestia linked to this story. When Kevin Smith began to speak, the video cut off before he said the stuff that Protestia quoted in this story.
Something fishy is going on here.
What kind of “mission” trips did he organize
and what message did he deliver?
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I have no idea, don’t care and not interested.
I’m so old I remember when a Southern Baptist preacher would never make references to buggery right up the ass.
He’s a hater.
The SBC is in the early process of joining the other protestant and Catholic denominations in the ash bin of liberal religious theology. There is nothing there but a hollowed out semblance of what was a religion and church once was and that is cursed by the new modern denomination.
They become social clubs where prosperity is the goal in church and life and God is mocked and His values are replaced by liberal Marxist theology and the worship of false gods and man.
The coming split in the SBC will be a nasty one because many SBC churches will rebel against the new religion and will be branded as bigots and white supremacist for upholding God’s Word.
Anyone with a functioning brain and an ounce of discernment knew bammy was a terrible choice for prez who stands opposed to pretty much everything the SBC claims to stand for.
SBC had pretty much the same reaction when Slick was elected.
AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
You're kidding. Every word of that comports with every single public utterance by this hoodoo, including complaining when he was initially elevated to SBC leadership!
So the previous guy was a political whore.
HOLD MY BEER.
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