CEO of SBC Compares Churches Who Withhold Funds From Certain SBC Entities to Transgender Children

Disntr ^ | September 23, 2025 | staff

[Morgana]

President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, Jeff Iorg, just gave Southern Baptists a masterclass in gaslighting. Standing before Southern Baptists, he literally wagged his finger at churches who refuse to hand over unrestricted Cooperative Program dollars and likened them to—brace yourself—children who think they can pick their own gender.

That’s right. If your church dares to say, “We’re not funding the ERLC’s leftist lobbying,” Iorg believes you’re drinking from the same poisoned well as drag queen story hour.

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CEO of SBC, Jeff Iorg, Compares Churches That Withhold Funds From Certain SBC Entities to Transgender Children

– Jeff Read on Substack

Let’s cut through the pious bluster. Southern Baptists aren’t designating funds because they’ve been bewitched by “expressive individualism.” They’re designating funds because the ERLC has been hijacked—turned into a progressive policy mill that pushes racialism, lobbies for open borders and gun control, and literally helps kill bills that would end abortion. Refusing to bankroll that isn’t rebellion, it’s duty.

And then there’s the North American Mission Board. NAMB burns through CP dollars on lavish leadership junkets, bankrolls woke pastors to plant woke churches, funds church plants with women pastors, and ships in loyal messengers to tip the scales at the annual meeting.

Zero accountability. Zero transparency. All on your dime.

This is why designated giving exists. It’s the safety valve against unchecked power, the one mechanism that says, “No, you don’t get to run wild with our money.” But in Iorg’s world, that’s not stewardship—it’s sin. He dresses it up with philosophical jargon, calling it “expressive individualism,” and then drives the dagger by equating it with the delusion that boys can be girls.

What he’s really saying is simple…stop asking questions, stop holding us accountable, and keep the cash flowing. Blind trust isn’t biblical. Blind trust isn’t Baptist. Blind trust is exactly how corrupt bureaucracies stay fat while the pews grow thin.

So no, Dr. Iorg. Refusing to bankroll rogue entities doesn’t put churches in league with the gender revolution. But demanding blind loyalty while comparing dissent to mutilating children? That sounds a whole lot like the very authoritarianism Baptists were born to resist.

[Zathras]

Advice is the same as to any church or org preaching the same nonsense.
Take your money elsewhere.
They are going to die anyway with or without your support.

[Morgana]

amen

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Walk away.

[PsyCon]

That's an interesting - but nonsensical analogy. Each SBC affiliated church congregation has always been free to determine the distribution of tithes and offerings it receives. More, the title of those SBC managed programs, is the “ Cooperative Programs” and they cannot be mandated. Each local church congregation then determines which of those programs we will support and how much we will give.

I often recall two different strategies from my childhood. For one “campaign” we received cardboard bananas to be passed out with the admonition, “take a banana and be one of the bunch” and during another - paper chains were constructed with the admonition, “don't be the missing link.” Now those were a long time ago, and that's how I remember those two.

[Battlestar]

SBC is a sick, leftist leaning organization that is helping hipster pastors like JD greer steal expensive land and buildings from local independent churches. The Summit in Raleigh has been involved in several of these. Search YouTube for “Church Reform Initiative” channel and watch their three part series on the unmasking of JD Greer of Summit Church. Also be sure to watch the deposition of Jason Little and see a lying pastor grinning and conveniently forgetting everything.

The Southern Baptist Convention has gone off the rails. It is no longer a trustworthy organization.

[ptsal]

Bkmk

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Fortunately, SBC churches are independent of the corrupt “leadership” of the Convention. They can call names and whine all they want.

[wild74]

Bring back Richard Land and get rid of the boobs in there now

[BDParrish]

It doesn’t work to designate.
The cooperative program will simply send funds where they want. If the children’s home for example got everything it wanted from designated giving then they would not receive from the CP.
Get out of the SBC!
Please correct me.
Thanks!

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Every religion leader says this when he wants to fund screwball groups.

We understand.

And no.

God bless you in your other efforts.