AuditTheRhetoric 📚

I’m getting a chance to see how the SBC determined slavery, segregation, and opposition to the suffrage movement, were accepted and affirmed by the vast majority of their constituency. If they were authentically born again, internally, they had to know their positions on these matters were theologically and morally wrong. Yet, the dominant culture, internal politics, and peer pressure to support these wrong positions, loomed larger than the influence of the inerrant, infallible word of God, that they claim to love so much. We’re watching these historical realities play it self out again. Internally and intellectually, the SBC knows beyond the shadow of a doubt that if taken and applied literally, as written, Huldah, Miriam, Deborah, Junia, Phoebe, Lydia, the 1 Corinthian 11: 5 prophetess, Priscilla, Phillip four daughters, and others could not have performed in the manner that we see them performing in Scripture, sanctioned by God, and by Paul. Neither would Lottie Moon, and current IMB female missionaries be able to have performed their jobs. Nevertheless, because of the dominant culture of the SBC historically and currently, peer pressure, and internal politics, the only hurdle the SBC has to cross before repeating unbiblical, immoral, and horrible history, is a vote in Indianapolis in June ‘27, to ratify this blatant, unbiblical decision. I had a church history professor at SWBTS to say in class in about 2019, “Culture will eat theology for lunch, every time, on every occasion.” I had to process his statement. First time I’d heard that. But, now I see it, in real time, and again in the SBC: “culture is eating theology for lunch”, and it’s painful to watch it. Yet, I’ve seen God do miracles. Indianapolis presents that opportunity for a miracle. If SBC churches register, donate to the Cooperative program with at least $250 dollars, by July 30, of this year, that entitles them to have two messengers to go to Indianapolis and vote against the Mohler Amendment. I believe a $1000 donation may entitle a church to up to 10 messengers or votes. A church can start preparing now & budget towards expense money to send messengers to Indianapolis. The Indianapolis vote is not a vote for or against biblical fidelity. It’s a vote to determine will the SBC be able to place parameters for fellowship on local SBC churches that the Bible does not place on them, and that is to deny women to function within their giftedness in the same manner that God, and Paul, clearly allowed them to function in. Let’s not let culture eat theology for lunch ever again in the SBC. We can stop this in Indy, if churches prepare and commit to making sure they qualify and actually serve as messenger’s, and vote against an amendment that’s biblically indefensible. Let’s honor the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God by our vote, and by not acquiescing to SBC dominant culture, internal politics, and our need to be approved and thought well of by others-peer pressure.