“I was in seminary in the early 80s where you could hardly find an inerrantist even at the most conservative of our seminaries,” Akin said. Akin, who is president of Southeastern Seminary, more properly framed the charge as liberal drift, but he dismissed the accusation as “nonsense.” On the evening of the first day of the annual meeting, Mark Dever’s ministry 9 Marks hosted a panel that included Jonathan Leeman as the emcee, Danny Akin, Matt Chandler, Kevin Smith, and a couple others. The main concern is not that the SBC is liberal but that it is becoming liberal. While there are people saying the Southern Baptist Convention is now liberal (I heard one say so yesterday), that’s not really the central argument made by most conservatives. ![]() The new liberalism speaks more to how Christians engage with the world than anything else.” Those claiming we have gone ‘liberal’ have a very different definition of ‘liberal’ than theological liberalism. “All four of our presidential candidates affirm inspiration and inerrancy, deity of Christ, biblical miracles, bodily resurrection, virgin birth. Of course the answer to this question is no! What church denomination would ever “go liberal” after a two-day meeting? Brooks’ question comes across as disingenuous, as if he and everyone who agreed with his 7-question thread have never actually listened to the arguments made by conservatives.īrooks argued that the Southern Baptist Convention is not liberal: “All six of our seminaries affirm inspiration and inerrancy” of Scripture, he said. Then next week, God willing, I’ll present Part 2 responding to the next four questions. For Part 1, I’ll be covering only the first three questions. The details I’ll be giving into the current state of the Southern Baptist Convention will be much lengthier, so I will need to break up this review into two parts. I’ll present each of Brooks’ questions and the answers he gave followed by my response. Did the SBC elect a “woke extremist” as president?īrooks said it did, and I will argue that it did not.Greear, Send Network President Vance Pitman, and SBC Recording Secretary Nathan Finn, in addition to Dwight McKissic, Daniel Darling, Grant Gaines, Josh King, Todd Benkert, Scott Coley, Jennifer Greenberg, and dozens of other professors, preachers, and parishioners. I’m going to give contrasting answers.īrooks’ Q&A was liked and shared by influential Southern Baptists including former president J.D. Brooks presented a thread of questions and answers on Twitter to positively frame the outcome of the Baptist Meeting for his Presbyterian friends, though many baptists loved his thread as well. Nate Brooks, professor of Christian Counseling at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, NC. I’m going to offer my review of the annual meeting and the current state of the SBC by responding to seven questions asked by Dr. What are the signs of this liberal drift? Can the Southern Baptist Convention change course, or are they doomed to be shipwrecked? ![]() But the convention is not going to try and change direction if they cannot see that they are going the wrong way. Getting a ship this big turned around will take a lot of time, effort, and money. The SBC is a large vessel-considered the largest protestant denomination in the world, made up of nearly 50,000 autonomous baptist churches. Many have called this a liberal drift or progressivism. It was evident from what I saw and gleaned from witnesses who were there that the SBC continues to turn from sound doctrine, following the course of teachers who tickle their ears. I was not able to attend, but we sent messengers from our church and I watched the live feed online. The annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention was held in Anaheim, CA, last week. In verses 3-4, Paul went on to say, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.” ![]() ![]() Reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with great patience and teaching.” In 2 Timothy 4:1-2, the Apostle Paul wrote to his protege Timothy, “I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word.
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