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The man at the microphone spoke at a white supremacist convention and tweeted sly "Hail Hitler" memes; the one on the right did business with a Nazi pornographer and called for a Protestant Franco, and they're not barred from the SBC.
I don't say this lightly. Saying cases in which the molestation of children and women within some SBC churches was a "hoax" is truly wicked and demonic stuff #SBC26
I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.
Why Cornerstone Church Will Continue To Partner With Women To Preach To The Gathered Assembly, Regardless of the Outcome of The Mohler Amendment!!!!
1. Joel and Peter prophesied that women would “prophesy” in the last days(Joel 2: 28; Acts 2: 17).
2. Phillip’s four daughters served the church as prophetess(Acts 21: 7-9).
3. Paul empowered women to prophesy in gathered assemblies(1 Corinthians 11: 4, 5).
4. Paul empowered Phoebe to address the gathered assembly, and told the men to show her hospitality, and to do whatever she asked them to do(Romans 16: 1, 2).
5. Paul affirmed Junia as an apostle(Romans 16: 7). Gifts are given without regard to gender(Eph. 4: 11, 12; 1 Corinthians 12).
6. Paul named Euoida and Syntecche as having “contended at my side in the cause of the gospel”(Phillipians 4: 2, 3). Paul also affirmed Nympha and the church in her house(Colossians 4).
7. Paul listed Priscilla’s name before Aquilla in Romans 16: 2, and acknowledged “the church that meets at their house.”
The only question remaining for me is, if the Mohler Amendment is ratified on its second reading, shall I await the disfellowship vote(which I will not appeal or contest)? Why would I await a vote to be disfellowshipped?
History would record that Cornerstone Church stood up for the word of God, and women who proclaimed his word. We’d rather not be disfellowshipped, but the tradition that I hail from suggests martyrdom leaves a mark in history for ancestors to track your trail, that they may be inspired to stand up for the truth of God’s word and his righteousness.
My only regret with regard to my time in the SBC is not allowing the SBC to disfellowship our church because of our continuationist theology, as Paige Patterson/& certain SWBTS trustees were once recommending. The IMB later abandoned their biblically indefensible cessationist policies forbidding their missionaries from praying according to the dictates of their conscience in private.
God may be giving Cornerstone a second opportunity to allow the SBC to disfellowship us, because we partner with Junia, Phoebe, Anna, Phillip’s four daughters and Lottie Moon, in empowering women to address the gathered assembly.
It took ten years for the SBC to correct the error of their ways in restricting the missionaries private prayers. Don’t know how long it will take them to get this women in ministry issue right. I may be in my grave when it happens, but I lean towards leaving a witness that every church didn’t follow Mohler off this cliff. Some churches stood up for biblical righteousness and examples, and were willing to pay the price of disfellowship in doing so.
It’s important to take a beat & say it out loud. This is the president of the United States. How undignified. How diminishing of our country. You wouldn’t let your kids talk like this, so why are you willing to tolerate it from the leader of your country?
Those in the SBC who think I no longer should have anything to say about the SBC profoundly underestimate the power of love. I’d served southern Baptist women for 40 years by the time I left. And when I left, I left directly on their behalf because it became disturbingly clear to me that the SBC as an entity was more interested in protecting shepherds than the sheep entrusted to their care. When protecting the pulpit from women becomes a far greater priority than protecting women (& children) from an abusive pulpit, something is wrong. Which has been the greater problem: women trying to become your senior pastors or pastors misusing or abusing women?
My biggest concern is that what happened with the CRT witch-hunt will happen now in regard to women. The overreach resulted in numerous pastors, teachers and professors dropping the immensely important biblical teachings against racism rather than risk being accused of CRT. I heard from pastors at that time who preached against racism and already had emails Monday morning from people in their congregation accusing them of CRT. Because the difference wasn’t clarified, they lumped all of it into the one category. The aim became: shut every mouth to shut some mouths.
I pled for SBC seminary presidents and leaders to please clarify to pastors and teachers and, thereby, to congregations & students what qualified as CRT and what indeed was the proper and deeply rooted and needed biblical approach to anti-gospel racism.
Crickets.
I see the same potential here. I have never once fought for SBC women to take over church pulpits. I have esteemed and supported the role of male senior pastors. My own pastors would tell you that. If you think I was in the SBC trying to lead a revolution against men, you are clearly not familiar with my materials. What I believed then and believe now is that God has called both men and women to serve their churches and communities and proclaim the gospel. He has poured out his Holy Spirit on men AND on women, calling them to broadcast the good news.
You have beaten the drum loudly about what women in SBC churches cannot do. So, what CAN they do? Clarity here is essential. What is a woman to do who has been gifted BY GOD to teach the Bible, especially if her church has moved to the community group model and there is no Sunday school to teach?
Here is what I see on the horizon. If you leave these matters involving women so vague that it becomes about pastoral roles/actions rather than the title of pastor, it will shift to the subjective rather than objective. I wish I was naïve enough to think that wasn’t the point to some of these leaders but, sadly, I’m not.
What if that senior pastor doesn’t allow a woman on the prayer team to pray over people at the end of the service because he deems she is acting pastorally? What if the pastor sees that a woman’s Sunday school class of WOMEN is getting, in his estimation, a little too big? Can he just decide she acting pastorally and remove her from the role? Can she counsel people with her God-given wisdom and knowledge or would she be acting pastorally? The examples could go on and on. And, of course, I realize many would not use their positions to disesteem women but surely you and I both know countless others would. God only knows how many unqualified, unloving, mean-spirited men are in pastoral positions but the obsession remains the women.
I have no desire to see SBC women leave the denomination. I loved and flourished in that denomination. I want them to be able to flourish in their spiritual gifts. I want them to be esteemed in their serving inside and outside their homes. I want them to be able to serve Jesus and proclaim his glorious gospel.
I know I’m going to get hit here. That’s fine. But you should know I will fight for them to the death. Because I love them. And, yes, whether they love me or not.
Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.
Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.
George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. https://t.co/yDqVXWfDgc
Sean Hannity: "Homicide, rape, sexual assault, sexual assault of minors..."
Justin Jones: "Are you going through Trump's charges?"
Absolutely brutal. Hannity walked right into it.
Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones; one of the Tennessee Three expelled from the legislature in 2023 for protesting gun violence.
This is what fearless looks like.