SBC & Gender

14 September by Thom Hunter

This is No Place for Cowards

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I carry the past that each day I chose One step to another . . . now everyone knows. It isn’t the past I would have wanted to claim But it is my past . . .  it is mine just the same. I wonder sometimes about all of this Can there be no exchanging [...]

29 August by Thom Hunter

To Me or Not to Me?

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Yes . . . that’s me. Front and center on the merry-go-round, a fitting metaphor for much of my life, round and round he goes; where he’ll end up, nobody knows. For too long, it depended on who was pushing and how hard. Just keep smiling and whirling . . . until you fall off. [...]

7 August by Dave Miller

Are Churches with Female Pastors Southern Baptist?

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You do not have to be Southern Baptist to be a Baptist.  You do not have to be Baptist to be a Christian.  But there are some things you have to believe and do to be Southern Baptist. The seemingly eternal question is what that is.  What is a Southern Baptist?  I asked that question [...]

26 July by Thom Hunter

Note to Self: I Forgive You

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I read recently of a man who “threw in the towel,” so to speak. He gave up the good fight and surrendered to — no, accepted — as he might put it, his inner gayness . . . the “real me.” He fought the fight for decades, perhaps not as well as he would have [...]

6 July by Thom Hunter

The Devilish Debate Over Choice vs. Chance

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Don’t take credit for not falling into a sin that never tempted you in the first place. — Billy Graham The clash between pro-gay culture and the church is turning into a tragic comedy with about the air-time quality of a 20-year-old 2 a.m. TV-Land repeat. Snooze. Who loses? Truth loses. I think sometimes we [...]

27 May by Thom Hunter

Gay Culture: The Mouse that Keeps on Roaring

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I confess to having been a sinner my entire life, revealed by my own actions, always in danger of being smashed like a gnat by someone big enough to demand retribution . . . but always in hope of being picked up and set free again by someone big enough to forgive. I’ve often perched [...]

16 May by Thom Hunter

Stronger Than Hell

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I can’t remember ever doubting the existence of hell. As much as I believe “there is a God,” I believe “there is a hell.”  I don’t think I ever had an issue with the idea that “there is a judgment” either and that God decides who goes to hell, no matter how many times we [...]

6 May by Jared Moore

Evaluating the Arguments Concerning Women Teaching Men in the Local Church

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Introduction There has been much debate over the last fifty or sixty years concerning the roles of men and women in the local church.[1] The debate rages on, and I imagine that it will continue raging within evangelicalism until the Lord returns.[2] According to Scripture, although God has equipped both men and women to be [...]

3 May by Thom Hunter

Where Would We Be Without Doubt?

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(NOTE:  This post is taken from a chapter in my book, Surviving Sexual Brokenness: What Grace Can Do. With all the major events of recent days, this just seemed like an appropriate time to share it.) Lord, I crawled across the barrenness to you with my empty cup uncertain in asking for any small drop [...]

8 April by Thom Hunter

The Blessed Affliction of a Conflicted Heart

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What if the lines in the sand just keep shifting? What if the boundaries we set up keep slipping? What if the truth we’ve been seeking keeps drifting? What if we don’t make it through all of this sifting?   What if our reach leaves us grasping at air? What if our longing finds no [...]

28 March by Thom Hunter

The Bogeyman Myth of the Hateful Bigot

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  Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up his clothes by casting lots. Luke 23:34 I have been told the church was mostly silent on that day. Evidence of my ongoing struggle with homosexuality was presented, a vote was taken and I was declared [...]

24 February by Thom Hunter

Storing Up Stones in Places of Grace

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“I don’t need this.” “I don’t want this.” “I hate this.” “What is this?” Where did this come from?” Why do I have this? “Whose is this?” “This hurts.” “I remember this.” “I didn’t ask for this.” “Where should I put . . . this?” One thing is for certain: there really is a lot [...]

26 January by Dave Miller

The Eternal Subordination of the Son Is the Historic Doctrine of the Church

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A remarkable claim has been made by some egalitarian scholars, which has been parroted on this site in discussions of gender roles in the Bible.  It has been said that the doctrine of the Eternal Subordination of the Son (ESS) is a modern innovation, one which has been concocted by complementarians to give a theological [...]

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