SBC Issues

When the Conservative Baptist Network formed, it was widely known that at the center of its formation was the powerful hand of Dr. Paige Patterson, the recently dismissed president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He was present at Mid-American Seminary at the meeting where the CBN was formed. The introductory videos were filmed in his study. All the key leaders were "Pattersonian" - it had his handprints all over it. Yet, representatives of the CBN scoffed, tap-danced, and fell just short of outright denials of Patterson's involvement. When we made statements here that this was … [Read more...] about At the Risk of Saying “We Told You So…”

The SBC Annual Meeting will be off with a gavel slam in 15 days. I'll be there along with around 15,000 other messengers, guests, media, and protesters. Count me in the first group, a messenger from an SBC church. This is the unofficial SBC Voices guide to the Annual Meeting. Unofficial because I couldn't get the other guys to sign on to it. Sometimes they don't see the things I do. Here are some notes on the meeting. The annual meeting of Great Commission Baptists is at the same time, same place and has the same program. I welcome our colleagues who wish to be identified by a … [Read more...] about The unofficial Voices irreverent guide to #SBC21

I just spent nearly 2 weeks in Senegal with a member of this year's Resolutions Committee. We had adjoining rooms at a beachfront hotel for the Casamance men's conference, shared every meal, and spent a lot of time talking during that week. You'd think I would have some inside information on what the committee had planned. Alas, Bart Barber was closed-lipped and I gleaned no deep insights. I am toying with writing a resolution extolling the virtues and blessings of coffee just to aggravate Dr. Barber who virtue-signals constantly against those who drink the nectar of heaven. The apocryphal … [Read more...] about A Plea to the 2021 Resolutions Committee

This is a change that diminishes the ability of members of cooperating churches from knowing about the entities that they pay for. Better take a look at this.   Current Business and Financial Plan, (In the SBC Annual this sentence is in Article XIV. On SBCNet, which I have linked, the sentence is not in a numbered article but is on page 9 of the BFP.) Members of cooperating Southern Baptist churches shall have access to information from the records of Southern Baptist Convention entities regarding income, expenditures, debts, reserves, operating balances, and salary … [Read more...] about Why does the updated Business and Financial Plan make it harder for SBC members to get entity financial information?

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We love 2 Timothy 4:3-4 because it is a biblical prophecy we have seen come to fruition in our day and one that allows us to point our fingers at "them" - those outside our circles who have abandoned truth to embrace the spirit of the age.  For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear. They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths. We immediately think (and point fingers at) the Joel Osteens and other positive … [Read more...] about The SBC and Itching Ears

This isn't a sleeper item, it's been publicized by Baptist Press: Rewritten Business & Financial Plan awaits adoption by SBC messengers. It is a snoozer, though. Not one messenger in 100 will read it. Not one Southern Baptist in a thousand will care one whit about it, but it is an important item. The various entities are required to report certain things to the SBC Executive Committee so that the ultimate, though indirect, decision makers, individual Southern Baptist messengers attending an annual meeting, may be informed. The process is a mess, seems to me. Entities report a lot … [Read more...] about Perhaps the most important item in Nashville: updated Business & Financial Plan