SBC Disfellowships 2 Churches at February Executive Committee Meeting for Appointing Women as Pastors

[Salty]

Then you'd better require your women to wear a head covering in church.

and that head covering is her hair.

 

[Ascetic X]

I was ordained in an IFB church and the pastor was a Hyles-Anderson grad and was a bully and not very sound. I think he listened to his tapes from Hyles and just adapted them a bit. He would speak of hours of study, but one message I remember I went home and in twenty minutes proved he was mistaken. He was very much the "touch not God's anointed" or "don't go up against God's man" type. He was a bit paranoid with Napoleon syndrome…..

I am of Hyles! I am of Jones! I am of ____.


After all, the plan of God was one church per city. When the Baptists start merging instead of splitting we may see a revival unrivaled in the past outside of Acts 2. ….. God ordained one temple for a whole nation and we build a myriad of Taj Mahals dedicated to some man or school. Not cool. We will lose many rewards over our unwarranted division. Just saying!

My wife and I enjoyed listening to Jack Hyles sermons from websites that collected them. His style was to quote a little bit of scripture, then go off on a rollicking commentary, interspersed with yelling at unruly pew sitters. Later I discovered some things about Hyles, his son, and successor that made me stop listening to him.

The “touch not God’s anointed” attitude has resulted in so many pastors being beyond scrutiny, thus enabling them to get away with sexual crimes.

Why do you say that God wants only one church in a city? If that one church is led by a bad pastor, then people in that city will have nowhere to go. Multiple churches in a large city enable those without cars to easily walk to a nearby church. And if only one church in a city, that means it might grow into a mega church, where the pastor cannot really minister to or personally know each member.