Has the SBC Turned a Corner away from Patterson, Pressler?
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 6:24 pm
Depends on who you ask.
I've read blogs from angry Patterson supporters who are blatantly ignoring facts, and from others who are almost giddy and tempted to sing "Ding, Dong the Witch....." well you get the attitude.
The messengers, who really represented any hope for Patterson supporters to override the trustees and for him to have his way once again, smacked down the motion brought to dismiss the 12 members of Southwestern's trustee executive committee. I didn't see an exact count, but one blogger said it was basically a 95 to 5 margin. That leaves the trustee board in full control, and Patterson with no recourse except, perhaps, to go to the secular courts.
It's probably time to remove the windows.
The messengers also voted to give a second term to an ERLC trustee who was not renominated by the committee on boards. There was an agenda, or at least a lot of talk, about angry right wing Trump supporting Southern Baptists using their authority as messengers to remove enough ERLC trustees to get at Russell Moore, and this trustee from the Kansas-Nebraska convention, who was a supporter of Moore, was left off the nomination list, making it look deliberate. However, the messengers voted him back on. And so, the trustee system won two victories, and Moore remains firmly in the ERLC saddle.
And a "young Calvinist" has been elected president, someone who would have been considered anathema by the Pattersonians. His margin was pretty substantial too.
https://cacoethisscribendiblog.wordpres ... ut-sbc-18/
I've read blogs from angry Patterson supporters who are blatantly ignoring facts, and from others who are almost giddy and tempted to sing "Ding, Dong the Witch....." well you get the attitude.
The messengers, who really represented any hope for Patterson supporters to override the trustees and for him to have his way once again, smacked down the motion brought to dismiss the 12 members of Southwestern's trustee executive committee. I didn't see an exact count, but one blogger said it was basically a 95 to 5 margin. That leaves the trustee board in full control, and Patterson with no recourse except, perhaps, to go to the secular courts.
It's probably time to remove the windows.
The messengers also voted to give a second term to an ERLC trustee who was not renominated by the committee on boards. There was an agenda, or at least a lot of talk, about angry right wing Trump supporting Southern Baptists using their authority as messengers to remove enough ERLC trustees to get at Russell Moore, and this trustee from the Kansas-Nebraska convention, who was a supporter of Moore, was left off the nomination list, making it look deliberate. However, the messengers voted him back on. And so, the trustee system won two victories, and Moore remains firmly in the ERLC saddle.
And a "young Calvinist" has been elected president, someone who would have been considered anathema by the Pattersonians. His margin was pretty substantial too.
https://cacoethisscribendiblog.wordpres ... ut-sbc-18/