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@BrianZahnd @JonathanMerritt Buy the Lords grace, I hope you’re right.

Saddleback Church and Elevation are now out of the SBC over the crackdown over women pastors. They reportedly baptized 1,725 people in 2021. That’s ~2.5% of the baptisms for the entire SBC… baptiststandard.com/news/baptists/…

Just posted a photo instagram.com/p/CoxWWSaO6WR/…

We are all going to die. All of us. What a circus! That alone should cause us to love one another. But it doesn’t. (Charles Bukowski)

“Too many Christians are in denial. Most churches are scandal-free, they’ll say. Most pastors are men of integrity, they’ll argue. But how many bad apples must we pluck before we recognize that the orchard is diseased?” ⁦@DavidAFrench⁩ theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

For anyone who has never checked the context of the famous verse “Let justice roll down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream” (Amos 5:24), it is not a plea or a prayer. It is a judgment.

@anderson0730 Your mom is awesome

“I love you, I’m with you to the end, and you can do what you want, but if you’re still a Southern Baptist by summer you’ll be in an interfaith marriage.” - Maria Moore

@BethMooreLPM WHEW! Yes! Beth Moore taking no prisoners today and I’m here for it! 💕💕🙌🙌

If you still refuse to believe facts stacked Himalayan high before your eyes and insist the independent group hired to conduct the investigation is part of a (liberal!) human conspiracy or demonic attack, you’re not just deceived. You are part of the deception. If you can go on

@SBCExecComm Instead of asking for “continued prayers for wisdom”, you should be asking for FORGIVENESS. Wisdom came to you years ago and you ignored her. Now it’s time repent.

A statement from Rolland Slade, EC chairman, and Willie McLaurin, EC interim president/CEO, on the release of the Sex Abuse Task Force report.

@ArtRainer And to help them understand what you mean by power, just use their language: “leadership.” It’s a love affair with “leadership.” Conferences. Pipelines. Book deals. Leadership became their god bc it was so hard to call it by its real name: power.

@dontrunN2anout @ArtRainer Wow. Yes! Never have I ever put the word “power” into church speak.

Heartbreaking. The SBC has a serious problem with power. These women weren’t just victims of sexual assault, they were casualties of men’s longing to acquire and maintain power. We certainly need to fix the sexual abuse problem, but we also need to end our love affair with power.

Causes of the Sexual Abuse Crisis the SBC faces: It is a crisis caused by our failure to identify wolves. It is a crisis caused by our neglect for the sheep. It is a crisis caused by errant theologies of authority. It is NOT a crisis caused by the reporting of sexual abuse.

Jesus was King who came to reverse the order things. The moment we try to unreverse, the church of God becomes simply a constituency and a voting block. Then it’s game over.

We have Married people to the Bible, we have not married people to following Jesus. Deciding to follow Jesus means there’s no room for anyone to be choosing their side over one another. Choosing one another is at the epicenter-the soul and heart-of what following Jesus is: love

Might loose followers over this, but I’m tired of caring. Here goes:

The deep fear behind every loss is that we have been abandoned by the God who should have saved us.