Ken Rucker

follower of Christ, husband, father, friend, pastor of NewBranch Community Church @newbranch

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

@Brad_Cone “such as” was better IMO, but less likely to pass

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

I’m on sabbatical, so I won’t be in Orlando. If I were, I’d heartily cast my vote in favor of this amendment. This is a no brainer. The pastoral office is more than preaching, but it’s not less than that. And it doesn’t violate autonomy; it draws a clear line for SBC fellowship.

[Albert Mohler @albertmohler]

An important update on the Truth & Unity Amendment to the SBC as we get ready to meet in Orlando. We need to get this done and affirm the convictional principles of the SBC.

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

Here’s why a “less than ideal” incremental approach to this issue is needed. Churches like this are obviously not in friendly cooperation with the faith and practice of the SBC and we need to instruct the CC with clarity to make those needed recommendations.

[Dwight McKissic @pastordmack]

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.

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

@merelyjwright It’s important to note that Mohler is not articulating what he believes to be the biblical ideal, but rather what he believes has the best chance of being approved by the broader SBC. We’ve attempted to pass an ideal amendment 3x. Why not pass one that gets us closer to it?

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

@PastorMikeStone That’s astounding. Way past time to codify this in the bylaws. Credentials Committee asked us for clarity a few years ago and we should’ve given it to them then.

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

@SamRainer If these statistics are true (which I find hard to believe), it only proves that the SBC should have codified their long held complementarian beliefs (which are clear and present in the BF&M) into their bylaws long ago. This amendment is long overdue.

[Albert Mohler @albertmohler]

It is for the cause of our unity in the truth that I intend to bring a motion to the Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando to amend the Constitution of the Southern Baptist Convention: “that the messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in June 2026 amend the Constitution of the SBC to add an enumerated 6th item, under Article 3, Paragraph 1, defining composition… (1/7)

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

@KarluskaP

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

@1zzyzyx1 Tell his mom to kick him out of her basement.

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

@NFL_DovKleiman

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

@Christ_like_ish @BlueSmokeLaddie @Bezner No, it’s categorically not an indictment against his church. It’s not loving to allow a gunman to enter your church building and murder its members. For a church to allow that is an indictment against its responsibility to protect the flock.

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

@Christ_like_ish @Bezner So churches shouldn’t be prepared to defend their flocks against wolves that would enter their church buildings armed and intent on killing them?! “Turn the other cheek” means no personal retaliation, not acquiesce our responsibility to protect the flock.

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

@HonestYPTweets One breaks laws. The other enforces them. Textbook non sequitor argument.

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

@JosiahHawthorne With your logic (which is laughable) no LEO or military officer in the country would be qualified to serve as an elder.

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

@kevinmyoung You’re equating what the Anti-ICE protesters did to a gathered church in MN to Jesus turning over tables in the temple. You’re laughable.

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

@TheBrianShapiro Not illegal until you’re trespassed. Until then, you’re just being an insufferable jerk.
Tough to follow?

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

@TheBrianShapiro Give me a break. All those who trespassed tha church should be prosecuted.

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

@EricLDaugh It’s past time for the insurrection act…it’s time for Marshall law.

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

Males demolishing female competitors in women’s sporting events is the very definition of patriarchy.

[REDUXX @reduxx]

🚨BREAKING🚨

A male student has just won gold in the Girls 400m Varsity race at the Portland Interscholastic League meet in Oregon.

Aayden "Ada" Gallagher of McDaniel High School set a season record after finishing over 7 seconds ahead of his female competitors.

[Ken Rucker @kenrucker]

Lord have mercy.

[George Christensen @NationFirstAust]

Christians are being massacred in Syria. Churches burned. Priests executed. Families wiped out. And the West is silent. This is the greatest Christian persecution of our time—and the media won’t tell you. Let’s expose the truth. 🧵👇 1/13