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.
Ben is Free!!!
I just got word that Reckless Ben's TRO has been removed and that we can expect part 3 of the Bricks and Minifigs video very soon.
Brick by Brick.
If you have a link to the lifted TRO order please share it.
Watching the timeline panic over A24 embracing "the slop machine" is hilarious.
Independent film has never been about the purity of the friction; it’s about punching above your weight class. A24 understands that generative tech is the ultimate force multiplier for taste and vision.
If you are mad that your favorite indie studio is adopting the most powerful creative engine in history, you don't love film. You love the velvet rope.
@PatAbendroth Fixed it…
If more professing christians maintained a category for law beyond its Mosaic expression, they would be more biblical, and we could have more beneficial conversations.
A form of discipline from God for breaking His law.
The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. (Deuteronomy 28:43, ESV)
Republicans should start moving now to enact legislation to prevent foreign born citizens from holding office. Because what has happened is that they have flooded the country with voters who have their own tribal and foreign interests that are opposed to American values and American culture.
We cannot have more Mamdanis and Ilhan Omars in office and expect the American experiment in liberty to survive. We can’t have judges who were just naturalized seven years ago overruling the will of the American electorate.
This is not 1910 and these are not European Catholics.
Bryan Johnson says this is the first generation that won’t die
“We are the first generation that won’t die, like actually won’t die, I don’t plan on dying”
“I’m chronologically 47, but biologically my cardiovascular abilities are age 18, my lung capacity is age 18, my telomeres are age 18, my body functions in many ways like an 18 year old”
“This is why I say make health your top priority, because the difference between being healthy and non healthy when you’re thinking is like night and day”
@TheMuppetPastor@Corbienest As a foster parent of many years, it’s because the system and the government are so jacked up it discourages anyone who actually cares about the children to be involved.
If Jesus prays for unity, Satan must hate it. That’s instructive when you look at X this weekend. Tx @megbasham for promoting and defending Christian unity.
I listen to less @albertmohler because of folks like @douglaswils, @HwsEleutheroi and organizations like @Ezra_Institute, but I’ll always deeply respect Dr. Mohler. Bro is a walking talking library, research institute, and synthesizer of history. What a great example of John 17 unity.
@BethCavete If anyone would consider taking a look at like one or two of this lady’s statements and compare them to the website below, you’d feel allot better about @megbasham and Mohler.
https://t.co/RjCymHV4uk
I was unverified for a while because I was just interesting in seeing what particular accounts had to say within the window of interests I had.
At some point, I noticed that I just came up as potential spam for folks, since I was not verified and also did not have a following.
In order to actually chime in/have conversation, I figured it was worth it to be verified.
Do with that info what you will.
I fixed it..
It’s disheartening to realize that there *were ever* people out there who think that waiting until they got to their table at a restaurant to take their mask off or following the arrows on the floor in the aisles of the grocery store during the COVID era saved lives.