This proposal is wet cement and open to change on any number of fronts before June. The fact remains that even those of us who felt like the language of the Law Amendment wasn’t the right way to solve the problem, 90% of us (at least) see and agree that there *is* a problem. I’ve said so for as long as the conversation has been around. Even if the correct mechanism for language like this would be a constitutional amendment, the intent here was to address some of the gaping holes from the Law Amendment—chief among them being that it offered nothing in the way of restricting the preaching function.
One would think that the best strategy toward solving the issue would be to put our heads together—those who liked the language of Law and those who didn’t—so we can address this in a way that puts it to bed, cementing our complementarian convictions in our documents and allowing us to move on. Anyone who is on board with that, let’s work together. And if my opposition to the Law Amendment means you’re unable or unwilling to make an attempt at friendly cooperation among brothers who actually want to see the same end result, that’s too bad.
Is the Credentials Committee so bad that they have to be spoon fed explicit instructions to disfellowship churches in clear violation of the BF&M 2000?
And if the answer is yes, they should be vacated and replaced.
“ThE mEsSeNgErS aRe CaPaBlE oF hAnDlInG tHoSe ChUrChEs.”
Letting the messengers handle churches not in friendly cooperation with our beliefs w/o a credentials committee investigation and conversation into the matter is ungracious & condenses the process to a ~ten minute trial.
Having conservative church members is quite the dilemma for many pastors.
This will be such a helpful resource in church discipline and excommunication.
Jeff Iorg has proven himself unfit to lead. At every opportunity, he has berated & gaslit faithful Southern Baptists while refusing financial transparency.
This doubling-down, accusing those who were critical of his speech of editing the video, further proves how unfit he is.
🚨🚨 The president of the @SBCExecComm is using official channels to lie about fellow Southern Baptists. @Protestia did not publish an "edited version of clips" from @Jeff_Iorg - we published a long and transcribed portion of his report, along with our conclusion - a conclusion shared by many other SBC leaders, based entirely on the plain meaning and context of his statements. Dr. Iorg implies that the meaning of his statements in the clip would be altered by reviewing the full report, and implies that we materially changed what he said by not publishing the entire 21 minutes. We did not. Dr. Iorg is free to claim our analysis was "inaccurate" (he does, yet offers no evidence - even admitting "failing to communicate clearly"), but he is not free to lie about us to the entire Convention and smear our character by claiming we published "edited" clips. I am asking Dr. Iorg publicly to retract this claim, and I am asking Southern Baptists pastors/leaders who know this is a manifestly false claim to repudiate it as such.
🚨🚨 The president of the @SBCExecComm is using official channels to lie about fellow Southern Baptists. @Protestia did not publish an "edited version of clips" from @Jeff_Iorg - we published a long and transcribed portion of his report, along with our conclusion - a conclusion shared by many other SBC leaders, based entirely on the plain meaning and context of his statements. Dr. Iorg implies that the meaning of his statements in the clip would be altered by reviewing the full report, and implies that we materially changed what he said by not publishing the entire 21 minutes. We did not. Dr. Iorg is free to claim our analysis was "inaccurate" (he does, yet offers no evidence - even admitting "failing to communicate clearly"), but he is not free to lie about us to the entire Convention and smear our character by claiming we published "edited" clips. I am asking Dr. Iorg publicly to retract this claim, and I am asking Southern Baptists pastors/leaders who know this is a manifestly false claim to repudiate it as such.
SBC EC sending out damage control emails.
What, specifically, was inaccurate that we said, @Jeff_Iorg? Please name these inaccurate claims.
We know what we heard.