David Rhoades

Follower of Christ and Pastor at specializing in helping people and churches live biblically.

[David Rhoades @DavidRhoades_t]

@DrFrankTurek Never apologize for it

[David Rhoades @DavidRhoades_t]

"Church" is literally the gathering.

If a church does not meet together, it is not a church, biblically.

If a church meets in multiple services or locations, they are multiple churches, biblically.

It's past time for our words and deeds to conform to the Bible.

[Protestia @Protestia]

Matt Chandler's The Village Church is going 'virtual' for the next three weeks on account of remodeling their sanctuary.

Should a church still try to gather together at another location, like at a park or someone's house or even in another church building, or is this an acceptable reason to not gather for a time?

[Joe Rigney @joe_rigney]

I’ve been thinking about the framing of this article about the SBC in Mother Jones.

“The Southern Baptist Convention Was Going Mainstream”

When a leftist secular magazine describes your trajectory over the last fifteen years as “going mainstream,” that’s another way of saying “going worldly.”

The world has indeed been watching, and they saw the SBC becoming more like them through soft wokeness, the faux-abuse crisis, and the push for female pastors.

Statements like that put the lie to the notion that “There’s no liberal drift in the SBC.”

Mother Jones thought there was.

They saw the direction that Respectables and Moderates like Moore, Greear, Litton, Iorg, and the Platform were steering the SBC: Onward into Mainstream Worldliness.

And they recognize that those raising the alarm for the last decade (like @BaptistLeaders and @Christ_OverAll) have won some significant victories in recent years that have arrested the slide into “mainstream.”

It’s a good reminder of the state of play.

And it’s a good reminder to not let up.

The World certainly won’t.

Victories are transient.

Vigilance is necessary.

Pursuit is essential.

Pray that the SBC (and the PCA) remember that.

Soli Deo Gloria.

[David Rhoades @DavidRhoades_t]

I like your term "The Inner Ring" for the SBC Platform. "The Citadel of Compromise" works too.

[Charles Johnson 🇺🇸⚓️ @soli_Jesum]

Socialists support the importing of worldviews harmful to Constitutional Republicanism in much the same way that the Inner Ring protects foreign ideologies from being removed from the SBC.

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@DennyBurk I'm surprised that they haven't said that Romans was actually written by Phoebe, who put Paul's name on it so that it would be accepted.

When one of them actually DOES get around to saying this, let it be known that I predicted they would say it first.

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@ZanderFearsYAH How might have the presence of Jesus and His disciples at the wedding at Cana contributed to the unexpected lack of wine, and what would have happened to the couple had Jesus not turned the water into wine? (Hint: See J. Duncan M. Derrett's article on the wedding at Cana)

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@coconservative7 @BaptistPress Dealing with copyright strikes:

https://t.co/X2F0tyA71p

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@WilliamWolfe He needs to write the verse reference in eye black under his face.

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"Baptist" Women in Ministry doesn't understand a key component of being Baptist: Every Baptist church is autonomous.

They also don't understand Baptist's source of authority: the Bible.

Maybe they're just Women in Ministry.

[Baptist Women in Ministry (BWIM) @BaptistWomen]

Today, the SBC voted again to further restrict women in pastoral roles in churches all across the country.

Baptist Women in Ministry laments this decision and the harmful messages it amplifies.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/fhKKTDx2ll

[David Rhoades @DavidRhoades_t]

@Protestia Disney World

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(Sarcasm alert) I hate it that those spontaneously careless Christians at Pentecost, on the road to Gaza, in Samaria, and at Cornelius's house gave us such a bad example to follow.

There comes a point where pastors on earth do not do God's will decided in heaven.

[Keith Foskey @YourCalvinist]

Last night I sat in for a few minutes on a 9 Marks event here at the SBC. They were talking about church membership, baptism and the Lord’s supper. This was one of the propositions regarding baptism. I tend to agree with this statement. What are your thoughts?

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@tomascol How long has spellcheck been around? Or just an actual reading of the resolution before it is printed?

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@BasedMikeLee Joseph Smith

[Charles Johnson 🇺🇸⚓️ @soli_Jesum]

NAMB/Ezell haven't been held accountable for slander, defamation, tortious interference, undermining Baptist polity, using egalitarian churches as training centers, lying in 5th Circuit and SCOTUS, etc.

Everything is an "interpretive issue" for them where sin is involved.

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@RepMikeKennedy LDS beliefs are heretical to the Christian faith on every single major point of theology.

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@DavidCFreeman @WilliamWolfe A primer:
Bible
biblical
Baptist
baptize

Sample: A biblical Baptist reads his Bible and baptizes new believers.

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@JoshuaBarzon Formal membership, yes. Covenantal membership, not necessarily.

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@WilliamWolfe Ironically, "Big Tent" SBC is one reason the SBC is shrinking.

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@coconservative7 @SamRainer Three problems here: "Certifying" women as pastors contrary to Scripture, "certifying" church work apart from and unaccountable to the local church, and selling the work of God for cash (biblical principle = freely received, freely give).

[David Rhoades @DavidRhoades_t]

@coconservative7 @marcminter FWIW, our church is a non-Calvinistic, plurality-male-elder-led, congregational Baptist church. And we have non-covenantal church membership.

But you're right: Reformed, elder-led Baptist churches are very unlikely to have female elders.