by Sandy » Thu Mar 22, 2018 8:22 am
Here is the last sentence from the blog post about the Louisiana Baptist disaster relief meetings.
"May God raise up men in this state who will help us throw off the shackles of this ungodly and worldly tyrannical mindset. Will it ever change?"
So there's this kind of animosity surrounding the selection of who is going to serve as the next president of a Christian denomination? Just because someone within a state convention likes one of the candidates better than the other, and is organizing support among a particular group of individuals with whom he has immediate and personal contact, the Louisiana Baptist Convention is being run by an ungodly and worldly tyranny?
First of all, this kind of good-ole-boy, favor granting, personal use of church and denominational resources is a common M.O. among Southern Baptists in particular. It stems from the belief that "of course everyone thinks the way I think," and "nobody will mind if we have a political rally for Ken Hemphill while we are 'practicing' how to fire up our disaster relief kitchen and feed a few hundred people." Southern Baptist entities and groups make rules for themselves that not only allow this type of thing to happen, but which actually set it up, and require it to happen. It is a very ineffective and backward approach to organizing and efficiently conducting business, but the fact that it is suddenly an "ungodly and worldly" tyranny is related solely to the fact that this is being done for a candidate the critic doesn't like. I guarantee, if J.D. Greear were the beneficiary, you wouldn't hear a peep from this source.
Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace.