Nathan A. Finn
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Professor @NGreenvilleUniv | Teaching Pastor @taylorsfbc | Senior Fellow for Religious Liberty @ERLC | Senior Fellow @TheLandCenter | Columnist @wngdotorg
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Many are saying that now Roe is overturned Christians need to care for pregnant women, foster and adopt children, provide counseling, etc. In other words, they are saying that now Roe is overturned Christians need to keep doing all the stuff they have been doing all along.
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You can be an evangelical who cares about social justice and not be a cultural marxist. You can be an evangelical who cares about personal holiness and not be a fundamentalist. You can be an evangelical who cares about patriotism and not be a Christian nationalist. 1/
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My fellow Southern Baptists, one of our entities has willfully gone rogue by continuing to reject the officially expressed will of the Convention. This is unprecedented. And if it is allowed to stand, it will lead to the fracturing of the SBC.
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In the Roman Empire, abortion and infanticide were common practices. Christians were known for their practice of rescuing abandoned infants and adopting them. When Jesus is King, the sanctity of every human life is valued—even the youngest and most vulnerable lives.
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Name at least one hymn or worship song that makes you cry every time you sing it. I have two: "It is Well With My Soul" and "Come to Jesus."
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Some guy is suing Texas Pete hot sauce because it isn't made in Texas. His life is going to be absolutely wrecked when he next turns his attention to Moon Pies.
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Sometimes when I'm in a worship service, I see teenaged boys who appear to be bored and uninterested. More often than not, they are sitting with unengaged fathers who never open their Bibles and refuse to sing. Dads, be the spiritual leader you want your sons to one day become.
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Baptists: “We don’t celebrate Advent because we're Baptists and we don’t observe the Christian calendar.”
Also Baptists: “Hope everyone enjoyed Disaster Relief Appreciation Day last month. Remember this is Global Missions Week. Also, January 9 is Sanctity of Human Life Sunday.”
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I’m a church historian and theologian who teaches leadership courses. Please indulge a general observation. Pastors who really enjoy theology should probably read a few more leadership books. And pastors who really enjoy leadership should probably read a few more theology books.
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I’m honored that Southern Baptists elected me as their next Recording Secretary. I’m excited to serve our Convention by recording our proceedings and telling our story. I love my SBC family.
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If your serious commitment to your theological convictions make you arrogant, mean-spirited, and combative, then you've missed the point of theology.
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This kid is going places.
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The Lord of the Rings film trilogy was released between 2001 and 2003. The special effects hold up remarkably well after all these years. The Hobbit film trilogy was released 10 years later, between 2012 and 2014. The special effects were awful at the time and are even worse now.
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Some of the all-time best Christmas albums were recorded by CCM artists like Amy Grant, Steven Curtis Chapman, Point of Grace, and 4-HIM in the 1990s. Those who know, know.
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Tributes to R.C. Sproul from folks who read his books or watched his series early in their Christian lives is a reminder of how much we need theologians who use their gifts & training to equip everyday Christians who will never earn a degree in biblical or theological studies.
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@paigelaurel
Ah, the old "100% platonic Zoom" routine. So pedestrian. At least he proved to be the marrying type. Congratulations, my friend.
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My dissertation was titled “The Development of Baptist Fundamentalism in the South, 1940-1980.” As a church historian and committed Southern Baptist, I thought I’d share some thoughts on our history and the current tensions within the SBC. 1/
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I once had breakfast with a pastor who was serving at a church in a small town in the Southeast. He spent a long time griping about how the town was uneducated, lacked culture, wasn’t growing, etc. He didn’t last. Pastors, you can’t hate your field and expect to reap a harvest.
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I can’t speak for other Christian traditions, but Christmas Eve services in Baptist churches are always playing with fire. No, seriously. Kids are given candles, the lights go down, and every parent prays Silent Night doesn’t become Siren Night.
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If you think that Baptists defending religious liberty in response to the MacArthur quote are just virtue signaling or posturing or caving to wokeness or whatever, then you don't understand the Baptist tradition. Defending religious liberty for all is what we do. Here we stand.
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The synthesis of public worship and political partisanship on display in Dallas yesterday doesn't represent historic Baptist views of church and state. Churches gather to worship the risen King, not to platform politicians. 1/
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Say it with me again: Southern Baptists need a Great Commandment Resurgence if there is to ever really be a Great Commission Resurgence.
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Juneteenth is also the birthday of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892), the great English Baptist pastor challenged Baptists in the American South to abandon their unbiblical commitment to human enslavement.
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We need to remember that even helpful abstractions are overly general, even trustworthy polls have limitations, and even seemingly predictable people can be quite complicated--including evangelicals. How we talk about other believers matters. Even on Twitter. 5/
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You can be an evangelical who is concerned about hidden agendas among those in power and not be a conspiracy theorist. You can be an evangelical who votes Democrat and not be a liberal. You can be an evangelical who votes Republican and not be a conservative. 2/
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There were more COVID cases at the SBC than there are Southern Baptists who actually affirm CRT.
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For those concerned that
@SBCCP
funds will be used to pay for the SBC’s response to the sex abuse scandal, please remember that for many years CP funds paid the salaries of some of the key leaders implicated in the scandal.
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Historically in the Baptist tradition, the church baptizes the believer. The church may designate whomever it wishes to administer the rite. That has most often been pastors. But countless evangelists, deacons, parents, and others have baptized believers on behalf of the church.
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I don't know if the new Italian prime minister is an extremist or not. I don't know enough about her. But this much I do know: these remarks are both spot-on and refreshing, and many of the pundits freaking out about her can't be trusted to call balls and strikes in such matters.
Why do they hate her?
Because she understands.
"Because when I am only a number. When I no longer have an identity or roots. Then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators. The perfect consumer."
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Many Baptists are lamenting that motions approved by messengers have been rendered functionally meaningless by today’s actions. That is a valid concern. But the far more troubling concern is the message sent to sex abuse survivors, even if unintentionally.
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You won’t fool me, Disney+. There are only two canonical Home Alone films. The rest are apocryphal books that are rejected by the orthodox.
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I’ve not attended the SBC Pastor’s Conference. However, I’m deeply troubled to learn about the organized attempt to steal an election in favor of a candidate who isn’t even a SBC pastor. “Changing the direction” to embrace situation ethics isn’t Christian, let alone conservative.
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A prayer request for 2022: that the US Supreme Court reverses Roe and Casey, thus ending the spurious constitutional "right" to murder pre-born children.
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The
#SBC17
voted by a 99%+ margin to denounce the demonic Alt-Right and all other forms of white supremacy. Praise the Lord!
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My dear Wormwood, the best way to get Southern Baptists distracted from their professed mission and to undermine their public witness is to get them to fight about all their stuff on Twitter.
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Ministry friends: what is the weirdest church music experience you've seen? Here is mine: years ago, I was the revival preacher at a church in a rural community. The "special music" before the sermon was a guy who played "Amazing Grace" on his saw by bending it in various ways.
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Joe Buck just referred to "Field of Dreams" as the most beloved baseball movie of all time. What a sad existence to be a professional broadcaster and be totally unfamiliar with "The Sandlot."
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Thankful for SBC President
@EdLitton
’s and
@FredLuter
’s emphasis on Christ-centered racial reconciliation. To be crystal clear, this isn’t “wokeness” or “CRT.” It’s a biblical imperative and an implication of the gospel. As so many have reminded us in Anaheim, we have a Book.
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You can be an evangelical who is deeply concerned about racism and not be a proponent of Critical Race Theory. You can be an evangelical who desires to show neighbor love to LGBTQ+ individuals and not hold to revisionist views of gender and sexuality. 3/
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A pastor who is pro-choice is like a fireman who is pro-arson or a medical doctor who is pro-poison. You may sincerely desire to good in a life-affirming vocation, but your professed principles are contrary to that calling and instead promote death and despair.
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A certain type of keyboard warrior likes to assume the worst of evangelicals in the abstract because of how some of them vote. Another type of keyboard warrior likes to pretend they speak for "real" evangelicals when they talk about their partisan political preferences. 1/
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If the President’s goal was to encourage more people to be vaccinated, he failed. A condescending scold-session and the threat of draconian requirements is a recipe for reinforcing the deepest concerns of many of the vaccine hesitant—and plenty of folks who have been vaccinated.
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I recently received a royalty check from a publisher. It covered about 40% of a nice dinner for my family of six at a moderately priced restaurant. The charmed life of an academic author.
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The
@SBCExecComm
needs to understand that the only appropriate course of action—to obey the directive of the Convention—is also the morally right course of action—to do right by sex abuse survivors. This *should* have been a unanimous vote supported by strong staff leadership.
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The SBC is technically a Convention of around 50,000 churches more than it is a denomination of 15 million people. The
@SBCExecComm
staff leadership needs to receive letters from thousands of pastors reminding them that the headquarters of our Convention is the local church.
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When you are an introvert, the worst words you can hear in a large gathering is, “break up into small groups with the total strangers around you to discuss this thing we’ve been learning about in this session.” I’d rather have my fingernails removed with pliers one by one.
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Join me in praying for the
@SBCExecComm
as they meet this afternoon. This is not a day for circling the wagons or protecting the brand. Rather, it's a day for courageous leadership, institutional transparency, and a renewed commitment to support sex abuse survivors in the SBC.
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A growing number of pastors are calling upon Southern Baptists to own the name Great Commission Baptists, which we approved as an alternate designation for the SBC in 2012. I thought I’d weigh in from the perspective of a Southern Baptist historian and theologian. 1/12
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🧵At the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting in Nashville, messengers overwhelmingly approved a motion that called for a task force to be appointed to oversee a third-party investigation into allegations that the
@SBCExecComm
mishandled sexual abuse allegations. 1/
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Cancel culture identifies alleged sins, but without offering a chance for forgiveness. It demands a blood sacrifice, but it doesn't bring atonement. It seeks to punish wrongdoers, but leaves no place for repentance & reconciliation. The bottom line: cancel culture a rival gospel.
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I want to offer some Twitter reminders as we begin a new year:
- The mute & block features are your friends
- You're not obligated to follow anyone
- You don't owe anyone a response
- Don't get dragged into other people's squabbles
- Don't given oxygen to jerks by retweeting them
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The woman in the checkout line at the bookstore thought I was funny. She told me I should write a book. I told her I have written several, but nobody reads them. She cracked up. I wasn’t laughing. Kids, if you become a professor then you, too, can write books that nobody reads.
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As a convictional Baptist, I don't believe America is, or ever was, a Christian nation. As a committed social conservative, I long for and labor towards America becoming more hospitable to Christian doctrine and ethics in the public square, as it most certainly was in the past.
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Praying for the
@SBCExecComm
as they meet this week. There are some really great folks serving on the EC. May they fear God rather than men. May they care for the hurting rather than circle the wagons. May they seek reformation rather than worry about reputation.
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This is just a glimpse of what the SBC really looks like. Our churches come in many shapes and sizes, but most all of them share a commitment to our confessional consensus and our cooperative mission. I'm grateful to God for our Great Commission Baptists family. 14/
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The year is 2024. The DNC is deeply divided over whether Biden should step aside for Michelle Obama. Trump and DeSantis are engaged in a pitched primary battle for the GOP nomination. Into the electoral chaos steps one man to unite a divided nation.
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You can be an evangelical who is committed to immigration reform and not be a proponent of amnesty for all undocumented migrants. You can be an evangelical who is anti-abortion and be in favor of the death penalty (and vice versa). 4/
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I just want us to remember the countless believers who spend their days being faithful parents, sharing their faith, serving the needy, and making a difference in their sphere of influence. That has always been what matters most. And it always will be. 6/
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First Baptist Church is a downtown church that runs 500 in worship. The church is affluent, which is reflected in their beautiful building. The worship service is traditional. There are lots of programs & committees. FBC is known for its generous Cooperative Program giving. 1/
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Globally, there are likely more Christians being persecuted for their faith today than at any previous point in history. When believers feign persecution, they may well score political points or rally their allies, but they also cheapen the real persecution others are suffering.
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I'm no foreign policy expert, so I won't say too much about what might have been because there is too much I just don't know. This much I do know: what has transpired in Afghanistan is a tragedy for religious freedom, the safety of women and girls, and basic human flourishing.
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🧵 I've spent most of my life in the Bible Belt. There are many things I appreciate about it. But as a Baptist who believes in the necessity of personal regeneration and a believer's church, one thing I don't love about the Bible Belt is southern fried cultural Christianity. 1/
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I want to give a shout-out this Sunday morning to bivocational pastors who labored hard in various fields during the week, but who will preach the Word today. Thank you for being a faithful shepherd to God’s people.
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What is the most overrated restaurant chain and why is it Chipotle?
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If you think Christian faithfulness means you need to out conservative, out Reformed, out complementarian, out egalitarian, out missional, out progressive, out relevant, or out fill-in-the-blank everyone else, then you’re in danger of making your ideals into idols.
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Thank you,
@LeatherwoodTN
and
@ERLC
, for consistently advocating for the mainstream pro-life position on behalf of Southern Baptists. Please keep speaking up for the unborn and don’t let the trolls or political opportunists distract you from your ministry assignment.
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Nostalgia isn't always a vice, but it isn't a Christian virtue. We aren't called to pine for the good old days or the way things used to be. Rather, we are called to long for the way things ought to be--and one day will be--when the King returns. This is the Christian's hope.
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The SBC Annual Meeting is almost ended. The messengers have overwhelmingly affirmed our conservative and cooperative consensus, accepted the recommendations of the Sex Abuse Task Force, and reaffirmed our pro-life convictions at every turn. I love my Southern Baptist family.
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Honestly, I don’t care if Mary knew or not. I want to know why more people aren’t questioning the claim that some kid was at the stable playing a drum *and* that Mary was okay with it *and* that said drumming made an infant smile.
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1. Today, I was announced as candidate to serve as part-time Teaching Pastor at
@taylorsfbc
. A congregational vote will be held on Jan 1. This will be a bivocational role, so my primary ministry will continue to be serving the wider church as Provost of
@NGreenvilleUniv
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I denounce, in no uncertain terms, what happened at First Baptist Dallas yesterday. I hope the backlash is significant and that most of the criticism comes from other conservative Southern Baptists. I pray that the pastor is teachable and publicly renounces his unwise actions. 4/
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Just heard
@KSPrior
say the words, “I’ve never read the book, but I saw the movie.” I will remember this moment fondly for all the rest of my days.
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And I hope all churches, and especially Baptist churches, will stop offering their pulpits to would-be caesars, thereby rendering unto them what rightly belongs to Christ alone. The gospel of the kingdom is the only political message that should be proclaimed from our pulpits. 5/
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I'm deeply grateful for the opportunity to serve as the next Provost and Dean of the University Faculty at
@ngucrusaders
, effective June 1.
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The
#SBC17
just voted overwhelmingly to allow the resolutions committee to bring a resolution tomorrow at 2:45 on the anti-gospel Alt-Right.
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Today there will be at least one, and perhaps two, efforts to defund or eliminate
@ERLC
. Messengers need to be in the room all morning. For my part, I strongly believe the SBC still needs a faithful witness for religious liberty and biblical ethics. I’m thankful for ERLC.
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If every SBC church baptized 12 new believers in 2017, we’d baptize about 558,000. That’s 113,000 more than we’ve ever baptized in 1 year.
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Trustees who cannot be trusted to enact the officially expressed will of the Southern Baptist Convention, but who serve some other movement or agenda, should not remain trustees. Southern Baptists should insist, in no uncertain terms, that bad actors resign from boards.
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Some pastors are called Marxists by folks who have been discipled by right-wing political propaganda. Other pastors are called white supremacists by folks who have been discipled by left-wing academic trendiness. Pastors, you will be slandered by someone. Matthew 5:11-12
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My senior pastor just announced he likes the chicken biscuits at a local gas station chain better than Chick-fil-A and now I’m having a crisis of faith.
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Yes, the politician said a bunch of unbiblical stuff. That bothers me, of course. But I'm far more troubled by the pastor that rolls out the red carpet, and the church that delights in the event, then I am the politician who is eager to speak to a large, sympathetic audience. 2/
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Nobody told me in college or seminary how much time pastors and professors spend helping sincere Christians unlearn some of the bizarre views they pick up from freelance radio, television, and internet Bible teachers. Not heresy, most of the time. But some really weird stuff.
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Southern Baptists: We’re divided by all the stuff and our convention will be a hot mess!
PCA: Hold my beer. But don’t drink it.
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Tomorrow I head to
#SBCAM18
. Unlike past years, I'll not offer humorous commentary about the event. I'm too burdened about our need for spiritual awakening to make light of the SBC. Join me in praying God brings widespread conviction, repentance, & renewal to Southern Baptists.
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If you don't have a group of friends with whom you can discuss theology, ministry, politics, sports, uniforms, and the best trashy fast-food restaurants, then you are missing out. If you can also regularly insult each other, playfully, without offense, then it's even better.
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If theological reflection doesn't lead you to grow in your love of God and neighbor, then you may know a lot of facts about theology, but you missed the point of the exercise.
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Did you hear about the Marxist who visited the SBC seminaries hoping to meet some comrades? He was bummed when he didn’t find a single one. Yet, he couldn’t help but respect the liars who sent him down this trail. Being a Marxist, he appreciated the value of political propaganda.
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First, please watch this explainer video from
@bartbarber
. Also, I make a motion that
@BHpub
pay Bart to write a short 50-page ebook on how the SBC works, make it available for free, and record a series of high-quality explainer videos to accompany the ebook. Can I get a second?
My latest video. This time about this week’s SBCEC events. M
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I’ve never been more burdened to pray for pastor friends. Being a pastor is the hardest job in the world in the best of times. These are not the best of times. 2020 is wreaking havoc in the lives of many pastors & the churches they're leading. It’s a jungle out there. 1/6
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Relationships really do matter in Baptist life. Trust is the currency of Baptist cooperation. The further removed you are from someone, the greater the temptation to assume the worst. We are all in this thing together. We can do more together than we can on our own. (3/3)
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I’m thankful for deviled eggs, even though I’m the only person in my family who eats them, and thus I must consume them at other people’s houses, church socials, etc.
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Thank God the SBC remains faithful to conservative Baptist orthodoxy. Join me in praying that God will pour out His blessings on the SBC as we cooperate together for the sake of missions, theological education, and Christ-centered cultural engagement—all for His glory. 17/
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