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Southern Baptists Call Off the Culture War

KenH

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“For more than a decade, the denomination has been experiencing precipitous decline by almost every metric. Baptisms are at a 70-year low, and Sunday attendance is at a 20-year low. Southern Baptist churches lost almost 80,000 members from 2016 to 2017 and they have hemorrhaged a whopping one million members since 2003. For years, Southern Baptists have criticized more liberal denominations for their declines, but their own trends are now running parallel. The next crop of leaders knows something must be done.”

Southern Baptists Call Off the Culture War - The Atlantic
 

KenH

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More from the article:

“Though most Southern Baptists remain politically conservative, it seems that some are now less willing to have their denomination serve as a handmaiden to the GOP, especially in the current political moment. They appear to recognize that tethering themselves to Donald Trump—a thrice-married man who has bragged about committing adultery, lies with impunity, allegedly paid hush money to a porn star with whom he had an affair, and says he has never asked God for forgiveness—places the moral credibility of the Southern Baptist Convention at risk.”
 

Wingman68

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“For more than a decade, the denomination has been experiencing precipitous decline by almost every metric. Baptisms are at a 70-year low, and Sunday attendance is at a 20-year low. Southern Baptist churches lost almost 80,000 members from 2016 to 2017 and they have hemorrhaged a whopping one million members since 2003. For years, Southern Baptists have criticized more liberal denominations for their declines, but their own trends are now running parallel. The next crop of leaders knows something must be done.”

Southern Baptists Call Off the Culture War - The Atlantic
Their own declines will accelerate faster as they rush to catch up with the others who have already turned off church seekers with their liberal ways. The congressional church that the local radio station broadcasts has nothing close to a sermon, it is all a political rant for whatever the cause of the day is. Racism, homophobes, white privelege, & all things pc. You could listen for a good twenty minutes without hearing any religious reference. Perhaps the word God may offend someone. Pretty soon there will be no true houses of worship left as they pander to the world & the dollar.
 

rsr

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The congressional church that the local radio station broadcasts has nothing close to a sermon, it is all a political rant for whatever the cause of the day is.

What's a congressional church?
 

Jerome

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This is something Southern Baptist bureaucrat Russell Moore, who was once a Democrat congressional staffer, has been pushing for years:

Russell Moore: Young Evangelicals Prefer to Be Freakish
"Younger Evangelicals are rejecting the style and methods of the Christian Right....they are embracing a counter-cultural, "freakish" message tied to the Gospel"....The style of young Evangelicals can sometimes confuse outsiders, Moore explained. They may have tattoos or nose rings, for instance, which may lead some to assume they are liberal.
Moore believes their activities....will be narrower because they will be less likely to claim there is a biblical position for specific political positions....they are concerned about issues beyond life and marriage, such as human trafficking, orphan care, domestic abuse and creation stewardship.
Moore believes today's young Evangelicals will embrace their freakishness. For Moore, this is both a prediction and a prescription...."We should embrace the freakishness of Christianity because it enables us to talk clearly about what really matters," he said.
 

Matt Black

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You said "partisan." Explain.
Party-political. Supporting one political party over another. Of course they are not allowed to do it officially, but they have done, and this change looks like the first crack in that edifice
 

Rob_BW

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This is something Southern Baptist bureaucrat Russell Moore, who was once a Democrat congressional staffer, has been pushing for years:

Russell Moore: Young Evangelicals Prefer to Be Freakish
I think Moore does not understand what "counterculture" means. When the universities and entertainment industry, among other institutions, are pushing so many of these "inclusivity" issues, they aren't counterculture anymore. They're culture.
 

Aaron

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Party-political. Supporting one political party over another. Of course they are not allowed to do it officially, but they have done, and this change looks like the first crack in that edifice
Duh.

I know what the word means.

I'm asking you to explain how the SBC has been partisan. Are you saying support for marriage, religious liberty, policies that enable and strengthen families and that protect unborn children is partisan politics?

Just so you know: when I say marriage and family, I'm not talking about queers. Tho't I should mention that since you're subject to rulers that seem to be in bed with Sodom. ;)
 

Aaron

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How many have voted Democrat or endorsed Democrat policies?
In other words, yes, you're saying support for marriage, religious liberty, policies that enable and strengthen families and that protect unborn children is partisan politics. If the Dems weren't pro Sodom, they would probably have garnered some SBC votes, but then, if the Dems weren't pro Sodom, they would be Republicans.

As long as Republican policies are pro-life, pro-religious liberty, pro-family and pro marriage, they will get the believers' votes. That's not partisan politics, that's Christianity.
 
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