Stephen Beavers

4. Of course, everyone knows the only restitution here comes from autonomous choices. The damages are a church judgment about the magnitude of the harms, based on evidence. Restitution judgments have happened in Baptist and reformed history. But discipline has been out of favor so long, the modern damages issues are hard to map directly. And now complicated by the courts saying so much has to be ecclesiastical. The decision that Dr. Ezell had not behaved consistent with ministerial fitness standards, however, is classic Baptist polity. That a cooperating church has said it deserves real consideration, not scorn.

I do hate NAMB something fierce. For the corruption they spread. This isn't a secret. Why would Kevin participate? Integrity. But he won't. For the same reason. He wants, and gets, no accountability. Sweet gig, for sure. No one should be excited about NAMB "churches", at least not anyone who subscribes to the BFM honestly.

There's a moment when smart Evangelical/Reformed guys in college or grad school go to a Sunday service and it hits them they're smarter and more sophisticated than the guy in the pulpit. They start thinking about Rome. I get it. Srsly DM me. Happy to talk. No judgement.

Can I decode this Platform Speak? "An outsider (Mike Law) addressed a problem WE denied existed. It didn't die. So now WE insiders, who haven't gotten anything right in a decade, get to choose how the problem is addressed (note: not fixed; addressed). Plebe. Aw shucks. Cows and stuff. "

What's happening right now with the question of pastoral qualifications in the SBC is, in my opinion, very healthy. The Law Amendment came out and people falsely conflated mechanism with objective—if you don't like this WAY of doing it, then I accuse you of not wanting to do it.

2000 Mohler and 2026 Mohler

Proud fundamentalist who believes the Genesis account of creation and that there was a literal Adam and Eve!! sorry to embarrass you intellectuals, but we’re not going to stop believing the text!

There was and is a snotty disdain for dispensationalism among Evangelical Elites; however, it was restrained before John MacArthur's death. The attack on dispensationalism mirrors the rise of Wokeness after the death of RC Sproul. Both are attacks of opportunity on the Church.

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