Beware of The Southern Baptist Convention
Once the shining light of Bible-belt Christianity, the SBC has clearly lost its way...
Editor’s note: Not all Baptist churches are members of the SBC. This post refers only to the Southern Baptist Convention organization currently located in Nashville, Tennessee.
In the face of mounting evidence, Southern Baptist Convention leaders continue to deny that the organization is moving ever closer to completely abandoning the Gospel in favor of Social Justice, Critical Race Theory, and support of unrepentant homosexuality. In other words, they appear to have let the sick culture of the world infiltrate their organization and dictate their policies.
What evidence?
Jeff Christopherson, the Southern Baptist SEND Leader says we need to abandon doctrinal precision and objective truth, in favor of “what truth works,” This is nothing less than an abandonment of Biblical truth in favor of subjectivity.
Lifeway, the publishing/bookstore arm of the Southern Baptist Convention continues to sell books by false teachers including Revoice "Gay Christianity" materials. Much of what you will find for sale at Lifeway is heresy including Jennie Allen, founder of the heretical IF Gathering, Beth Moore, Priscilla Shirer, Christine Caine, and Max Lucado, who endorsed the pro-homosexual Jen Hatmaker.
SBC's North American Mission Board has partnered with the gay-affirming Church for Caregiver Ministry. Ministering to gays is one thing, but affirming them is not Biblical.
Adam Greenway, the president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has unfavorably compared conservative Christians who don’t observe the SBC’s phony “Racial Reconciliation Sunday” to the segregationists of the 1960s.
The Southern Baptist Convention continues to promote Disney, a company that advocates LGBTQ child grooming. When The Southern Baptist Convention met in Anaheim, California this past June, the SBC encouraged, promoted, and offered discounts for families in attendance to visit Disneyland. When a group of conservative Southern Baptists took issue with this action, they were mocked by Jimmy Scroggins, a Southern Baptist Convention highbrow who once served on the board of LifeWay.
Russell Moore, who previously served as president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, has demanded that conservative Christians stop fighting the “culture wars” because it causes his progressive side to lose ground. (We should never stop contending for the Gospel.)
SBC member churches continue to promote women into positions of pastoral authority. Saddleback Church, the California-based SBC megachurch headed by Pastor Rick Warren, announced that they have ordained their first three female pastors. The SBC is apparently letting this stand. Warren has since announced his retirement. His named successor, Andy Wood, sadly believes that the Scriptures don’t really condemn homosexuality.
Guidepost Solutions, the law firm hired by the SBC to investigate alleged charges of sexual abuse on the part of SBS leadership has announced it will be celebrating Gay Pride Month. By doing this, Guidepost has rendered itself totally incapable of investigating these cases from a biblical perspective. Apparently, the firm’s intention is to promote sexual immorality, by in their words “creating an environment of inclusion and belonging for people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions.” This is clearly incompatible with advocating for objective Biblical truth.
The Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board, a spiritually bankrupt church planting organization has been using Southern Baptist tithe dollars to send “woke pastors” to their annual meeting who are likely to vote for progressive SBC candidates.
Last month, Bart Barber defeated conservative pastor, Tom Ascol, 61 percent to Ascol's 38 percent. Barber is one of the worst possible choices to lead the SBC. Barber’s election guarantees the SBC’s further descent into rank liberalism, wokeism, scandal, and feminism.
The SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) vice-chair of the trustee board and prominent Southern Baptist pastor, Kevin Smith, Trump voters as “whores.” during a panel discussion at this year’s SBC annual meeting. There was no pushback from Matt Chandler, Danny Akin, or Mark Dever who were on the same panel.
I could go on. The bottom line is this... The SBC has given up whatever spiritual authority it may have once had in favor of apostasy, heresy, foolishness, and subjective doctrine.
Is the SBC still even a Christian organization? Gospel writer John put it this way:
They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out so that it would be evident that they all are not of us. (1 John 2:19 NASB)
It is tragic to watch this unfold. Local churches that are currently part of the SBC need to seriously re-evaluate their continued membership.
How much longer can conservative Christians remain in this denomination without it actually being sinful to do so?
If you are in a church that won’t leave the SBC after all this, it’s way past time to leave that church immediately if not sooner!
Great piece. Thanks for sharing. This is unbelievable ... how quickly the descent has occurred. My family attended First Orlando for years, but eventually had to leave. It was once a truly inspiring & Biblically-based church--even their music (a hot button for me) used hymns & included congregational singing. But it became too painful for them to attend. Thanks again for shining your light!