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"Johnson was a trustee at Southern Seminary from 1989 to 1998 and chaired the board from 1996 to 1998", "in 1990...[he] accused seminary President Roy Honeycutt of not believing the Bible. After Honeycutt retired and was replaced by Al Mohler — the pick of Johnson and other conservatives — Johnson earned a degree from the seminary and later worked there, ultimately serving as dean of Boyce College from 2002 to 2004. From 2004 to 2008, he was president of Criswell College in Dallas and again from 2010 to 2013. He left there to become president of National Religious Broadcasters from 2013 to 2019. In between his stints at Criswell College, Johnson served as vice president for academic development at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary."
"Thirty-five years after accusing Honeycutt of not believing the Bible, Johnson has abandoned his Baptist heritage to embrace Catholicism....Johnson says he 'read my way' into Catholicism", "began watching the Catholic TV channel EWTN...and 'felt drawn' to the faith."
"He explains his embrace of the Catholic teaching of transubstantiation — the belief that the bread and wine of Communion when blessed by the priest become the literal body and blood of Christ. 'The consecration of the bread and the wine of the host — and that through a miracle it becomes what Jesus said it was, the body and blood of Christ".
"So it’s the real presence of Christ." "By contrast, he says, 'Baptists believe in the real absence of Christ...they believe it’s a memorial'." He recalls being "given a 'cuplet' with a cheap cracker and juice. What he was given was...'grace free', he says. 'It’s alcohol free and it’s atonement free'....if you don’t believe this is the body and blood of the Lord, it ceases to be very important'."
"Johnson was a trustee at Southern Seminary from 1989 to 1998 and chaired the board from 1996 to 1998", "in 1990...[he] accused seminary President Roy Honeycutt of not believing the Bible. After Honeycutt retired and was replaced by Al Mohler — the pick of Johnson and other conservatives — Johnson earned a degree from the seminary and later worked there, ultimately serving as dean of Boyce College from 2002 to 2004. From 2004 to 2008, he was president of Criswell College in Dallas and again from 2010 to 2013. He left there to become president of National Religious Broadcasters from 2013 to 2019. In between his stints at Criswell College, Johnson served as vice president for academic development at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary."
"Thirty-five years after accusing Honeycutt of not believing the Bible, Johnson has abandoned his Baptist heritage to embrace Catholicism....Johnson says he 'read my way' into Catholicism", "began watching the Catholic TV channel EWTN...and 'felt drawn' to the faith."
"He explains his embrace of the Catholic teaching of transubstantiation — the belief that the bread and wine of Communion when blessed by the priest become the literal body and blood of Christ. 'The consecration of the bread and the wine of the host — and that through a miracle it becomes what Jesus said it was, the body and blood of Christ".
"So it’s the real presence of Christ." "By contrast, he says, 'Baptists believe in the real absence of Christ...they believe it’s a memorial'." He recalls being "given a 'cuplet' with a cheap cracker and juice. What he was given was...'grace free', he says. 'It’s alcohol free and it’s atonement free'....if you don’t believe this is the body and blood of the Lord, it ceases to be very important'."
