NAMB Training Manual Might Be the Most Brazen Demonstration of Wokeness in the SBC Yet

Even though we all know the Southern Baptist Convention is woke, it seems like every day we see another example of just how pervasive this evil is in these churches. Over the years, we’ve uncovered garbage from SBC pastors like David Platt, Matt Chandler, and many others pushing various forms of critical theory and woke social justice tripe. But most of that simply demonstrates just how feeble-minded and non-thinking most pastors and church leaders who buy into this stuff really are.

However, in the document below, you would not believe the extent to which supposedly Bible-believing congregations are now funding what can only be described as a baptized brand of Marxism.

Over the last several years, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has increasingly embraced woke ideologies, despite many of its leaders continuing to stick their heads in the sand over this. This creeping influence is most brazenly evident in a training manual recently uncovered from the North American Mission Board’s “Send Philly” event in 2019. What’s particularly alarming is that these ideologies are being funded by the tithes and offerings of mostly unknowing churchgoers who are being deliberately lied to—dollars that should go towards spreading the gospel, not social theories.

The “Send Philly” curriculum typifies this new direction. Wrapped in the language of urban ministry and outreach, the content is steeped in concepts drawn straight from Critical Race Theory and social justice narratives. These are ideologies that are in direct conflict with  the Bible, focusing on societal structures and collective guilt rather than individual sin and redemption.

One of the central themes of this curriculum is an obsession with the “marginalized.” While  the Bible does call Christians to care for the oppressed and the needy, this manual shifts the focus toward a secular understanding of oppression. It categorizes individuals not by their spiritual needs or their common identity in Christ but by their socio-economic status, ethnicity, and other worldly metrics. The document dilutes the message of salvation and individual transformation to a message of social reform and systemic restructuring.

In one section, the material discusses “marginalized peoples” in the context of Matthew 25:31-46, twisting  Scripture to support a narrative that prioritizes social identity and earthly justice over spiritual regeneration and heavenly justice. It portrays Jesus not primarily as the Savior from sin but as a social reformer, which is a misrepresentation of His mission and the Gospel.

Worse, this manual ventures into areas like systemic racism, environmental oppression, and modern-day slavery—terms loaded with political connotations and underpinned by a worldview that sees “systemic sin” as the root of all societal evils. The curriculum advocates for a form of activism that aligns more closely with leftist political thought than with pastoral ministry or evangelism.

To see tithes being used for promoting such views is distressing as Christians should see their contributions not as just financial gifts but as offerings to God for the purpose of furthering His kingdom—not for advancing a secular agenda cloaked in Christian rhetoric. The misalignment between the financial stewardship of these resources and the theological direction being pursued raises serious questions about accountability and the future direction of the SBC.

Yet, this is where Southern Baptists continue to spend their hard-earned money. What is the return? Are we winning souls or simply appeasing the culture—the far left pagan culture? The infiltration of woke ideology into the SBC through training programs like “Send Philly” reveals a troubling trend. It’s not just about a theological mission drift but about a fundamental restructuring in how the church understands and carries out its mission.

Here are some pages from the manual:

The Coming Judgment of God on the Modern American Church

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for moreThe Coming Judgment of God on the Modern American ChurchJEFFMAR 6 READ IN APP All throughout the History of the Church, the Bride of Christ, has stood a harlot who masquerades as the elect but lures people into the depths of darkness with seductive words and practices. But in modern times, Christianity has witnessed the emergence of a progressive American “Church” movement that surpasses anything we’ve seen before. This movement, under the guise of adapting to contemporary standards, has embraced such an idolatrous path that it has abandoned the gospel altogether for such causes as the LGBTQ movement, social justice and Critical theory, and feminism. This movement isn’t limited to the obviously apostate mainline denominations but its tentacles have a grip on even the most “traditional” and “conservative” churches and denominations in our nation. By professing allegiance to Christ while simultaneously contravening His commandments and compromising the gospel to maintain superficial peace with the world, this movement exemplifies a profound disconnect between confession and conduct, invoking God’s name in vain. The Holy Scriptures, unambiguous in their denunciation of sin, offer stark illustrations of God’s wrath against apostasy and disobedience. The verses from Jeremiah 19:9, Leviticus 26:29, Ezekiel 5:10, and Lamentations 4:10 serve not merely as historical records of divine judgment but also as metaphors for God’s enduring abhorrence of sin. These passages depict a horrifying scenario where, under the severe duress of a siege—both literal and spiritual—the people of God resort to cannibalism, a graphic emblem of the depths to which humanity can fall when it turns away from the Lord. In the time of Jeremiah, the people of Israel faced such dire punishment because of their steadfast refusal to heed God’s commands, engaging in idolatry and social injustices that mirrored the actions of the nations around them. In Jeremiah 19:9, God warns, “And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.” This prophecy was a literal unfolding of events during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem, but it also symbolizes the self-destructive consequences of abandoning God’s law—the prophet laments this destruction of the imago dei in Lamentations 4:10. Similarly, Leviticus warns of the ultimate degradation of moral fiber, illustrating the extreme measures to which God is willing to go in order to cleanse His people of their sinfulness. “You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.” —Leviticus 26:29 Ezekiel’s grim portrayal further accentuates the inevitability of divine retribution within the community, where the familial bond is shattered under the weight of God’s judgment. “Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds,” the prophet writes in Ezekiel 5:10. This is a graphic reminder that sin not only estranges us from God but also corrodes the social and familial structures He ordained. Lamentations mourns the unspeakable acts of a besieged Jerusalem, where even the most seemingly “compassionate” hearts are driven to desperation. These historical accounts mirror the spiritual desolation that ensues when those who profess the name of Christ forsake His commandments. The application of these scriptures to the modern false church movement is both fitting and foreboding. Just as Israel and Judah faced severe consequences for their unfaithfulness, so too will contemporary “churches” that distort the gospel for societal approval, political correctness, or personal gain. The false church, by embracing doctrines and practices contrary to the Bible, invites upon itself a judgment as severe as that which befell the unfaithful in ancient times. God’s historic judgments, ranging from the flood in Noah’s time to the fiery destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, to the severe penalties inflicted on His people for their idolatry and faithlessness, serve as solemn reminders. We can conclude from these events that nothing is off the table when it comes to God’s judgment—these are not mere anecdotes from a bygone era but are indicative of God’s immutable nature. His holiness demands justice, and His justice will not spare those who, under the banner of Christ, propagate falsehoods and lead many astray. In our modern church age, the warning is clear and urgent. The modern American “Church,” by diluting the gospel’s power with human ideologies and rejecting the clear teachings of Scripture, stands on precarious ground. The call to repentance is not just a plea but a mandate for survival. For the true bride of Christ, the path forward is one of separation and sanctification—to disentangle from the deception that pervades these false assemblies and to stand firm in the truth of God’s Word. As we face an increasingly hostile world, we must heed the dire warnings of Scripture with both fear and reverence. Remember that our God, who is loving and merciful, is also a consuming fire, intolerant of sin and compromise. May this reflection inspire a return to the unadulterated gospel, prompting a revival within the church that aligns with God’s sovereign will and eternal statutes. The stakes are eternal, and the time for discernment and decisive action is now. The Dissenter is primarily supported by its readers. The best way to support us is to subscribe to our members-only site where you will receive all of our content ad-free, plus you will get member-only exclusive content.   Subscribe to The Dissenter

SBC State Director of Evangelism Says Eternal Salvation Can Only Come After Social Justice

The Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) leadership is enamored with social justice and critical race theory, rather than the Bible. I identify with old fashioned, old school, rank and file, salt of the earth Baptists and other like minded Christians, hence our exit from the SBC one year ago. I enjoy worship and fellowship with Bible believing, Christ exalting Christians, not religious bureaucrats who place culture before truth. In Christ, Pastor Steve <><

In the midst of a progressive shift and growing divide within the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), social justice has become the dividing line that some are not willing to cross and others are not willing to go without. The social justice movement in the SBC has caused quite a bit of turmoil and has led to the denomination passing resolutions affirming Critical Race Theory and other anti-biblical ideologies. But until recent months, the rejection of sound biblical theology in favor of such worldly ideologies hasn’t been quite so brazen.

It seems like every week, the SBC takes up a new pet issue. If it wasn’t softening its stance on homosexuality, it became about the #churchtoo “believe women” movement, or the “racial reconciliation movement,” or women pastors. Now it seems like gun control is on the table—and some of its top leaders are spending your tithe dollars to promote it.

In fact, after the Covenant School shooting in TN by a transvestite several weeks ago, Brent Leatherwood, who has three children enrolled in this school, has become one of the state’s top advocates for stricter gun control. Not to get into the politics of why stricter gun control is such a ludicrous policy, but Leatherwood has become a rogue agent in this movement clearly not representing the consensus of Southern Baptists as a whole.

But it isn’t just Leatherwood—the Baptist Press, the propaganda arm of the Southern Baptist Convention also known as the Baptist Pravda, is now promoting a gun-control ministry that teaches that young men caught up in violent lifestyles cannot be eternally saved until we as a nation enact laws and policies that save their lives in the present.

In an article titled Exegete the Culture, Philadelphia pastor of Great Commission Church which runs a ministry called ManUpPHL (Man Up Philadelphia) explains:

“When you’ve got kids getting killed around you that’s 13 and 15 years old, your life expectancy is not, ‘I’m going to have a wife and a few kids and a house with a picket fence…all of a sudden the trajectory minimizes and shortens, and all of a sudden you’re starting to think, ‘Hey, I’ve got to do all I’m going to do now. So, I’ve got to get a car now. I’ve got to have a child now. If I want this jewelry, I’ve got to get that now.”

“And most of them don’t have the jobs or the income to get it, so what do they do? ‘Ah, I’ve got to get a gun. And if I get a gun I can get it, because he got it and I’ll just take his.’”

According to a testimony during a public hearing in front of the Philadelphia city council, ManUpPHL pays its mentees 15 dollars an hour not to engage in gun violence. Let that sink in for a moment and imagine how that might turn out.

Anderson, who is also the State Director of Evangelism for the SBC in PA, however, continues to explain in his article at the Baptist Press that all of this social justice is necessary because they can’t be saved eternally without it. “There’s a psychological warfare that’s eating them alive,” he said, referencing peer pressure, social media and a lack of communication skills according to the article. “We’ve got to save their life in the present before we can save their life eternally.”

Make no mistake about it, this is the kind of ideology that has taken over the Southern Baptist Convention and when you send money to the cooperative program, you’re paying for this kind of propaganda to be spread throughout your churches.

Another Conservative Church Eighty-Sixes its Relationship With the Southern Baptist Convention

by Publisher | Dec 12, 2022

It seems that a conservative Southern Baptist Convention is quickly becoming a thing of the past. More and more churches are leaving the denomination, citing its descent into theological “moderate-ism” and its tolerance of liberalism and social justice as the primary reasons for their departure.

At the heart of the issue is the SBC’s embrace of social justice, a dangerous and heretical ideology that seeks to water down the teachings of the Bible, pervert the gospel, and cater to the whims of a progressive, secular society. This is evidenced by many Southern Baptist churches that have added works of social justice to the gospel and involve the inclusion of these non-Christian beliefs and practices in their religion.

But the SBC’s slide into what seems to be a true apostasy doesn’t stop there. The denomination has also embraced the dangerous and divisive ideology of critical race theory (CRT-I), which seeks to divide people along racial lines and pit them against each other. This toxic ideology has no place in the Church, and yet much of the SBC has embraced it wholeheartedly while the rest seems to be at least well-tolerating it.

And if all of that weren’t bad enough, the SBC has also been plagued by financial mismanagement and a lack of transparency when it comes to their expenditures, particularly from non-transparent and nearly unaccountable entities like the North American Missions Board (NAMB) and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). This has led to widespread misuse of funds with many church leaders and members calling for greater accountability and transparency from the SBC leadership, but seemingly unable to get it.

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In the end, it’s no wonder that more and more churches are choosing to leave the Southern Baptist Convention. We’ve reported on many over the last few years, but here’s another one. Gracepoint Fellowship, a Southern Baptist congregation just outside of Houston, TX, just voted this past Sunday to withdraw from the Southern Baptist Convention. In an email obtained by The Dissenter, the pastor, Gary Ladd, urged the congregation to vote this way citing the usual liberal drift. Addressing the church in the email, Ladd wrote:

In brief that letter shared our disheartenment of the fall of our convention into moderate-ism, Liberalism, Toleration of untruth, Jesus + practices, Woke-ism, CRT-I, Social Justice, misuse of funds and an outright refusal to be transparent about their expenditures. Those and other factors led us (The investigation Committee, Staff, Trustees, Deacons and pastor) to recommend that we (GracePoint) should withdraw from the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).

In this letter, which was also obtained by The Dissenter, Ladd wrote to the congregation:

After 3 years of prayer, seeking the heart of God, and much research, I and our committee have come to the conclusion that, The SBC shift is headed in the wrong direction, and it has too small a rudder to turn itself around. With a deeply saddened heart over the decline of our once great and conservative convention, we feel we must recommend that we (GPFBC) remove our fellowship from the SBC. Perhaps one day (I pray in our near future) the leaders of this once great convention will repent and show a real desire to return to biblical conservatism and truth.

Ladd said that his “greatest regret in leaving the SBC is losing the mission factor of the Cooperative Program.”

“God’s Word tells us we are responsible with whom we affiliate (Psalm 1; 1 Corinthians 5:11, 15:33); it is time for a
change,” Ladd wrote, “I feel the liberal element is so ingrained in the SBC that we can no longer make enough difference to change it. The moderates have taken over and outright liberalism will follow and grow worse.”

Southern Baptist Seminary Head, Adam Greenway, Continues to Argue for Women Pastors

by Publisher | Jul 27, 2022

One of the highlights of the 2022 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting was when Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, one of the largest Southern Baptist congregations in history, was brought to the floor for a debate on disfellowshipping. Rick Warren made headlines last year when he ordained three women to the pastorate of his church—a direct violation of both Scripture and the Southern Baptist Convention’s official statement of faith.

Warren then attempted to justify his actions by pointing to Acts 2:17-18. This passage, which has nothing at all to do with the office or the function of a pastor or elder in a local church, Warren used to justify his church’s rebellion against God and his roles for women and men in the Church. By Warren’s logic, the use of this passage to justify women pastors would also justify little kids into the pastorate. It’s simply absurd.

Acts 2:17-18 NKJV

‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy.’

Leave it to Rick Warren to interpret this passage to suggest ladies should be pastors, and leave it to the egalitarian Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) to abandon the Bible and for their Credentials Committee to ratify this apostasy. I believe the Southern Baptist Convention is every bit as apostate as the United Methodist Church, and I am exceedingly glad that our church unanimously left this heresy. Pastor Steve <><

But no fear, Adam Greenway is near. Adam Greenway, the president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, has been on a mission since the annual meeting to undermine Scripture, defend Rick Warren, and argue in favor of women pastors.

Greenway, who says you must be a Marxist in order to be fully pro-life, who compares conservatives to 1965 segregationists, and spent most of the 2021-22 SBC fiscal year defending former Southern Baptist president and serial plagiarist, Ed Litton, has now gone head-over-heels twisting the meaning of Scripture and the creeds of the denomination to defend ordaining women to the pastorate.

As we wrote previously, after the SBC Credentials Committee, which is led by a woman, opted against recommending disfellowshipping Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church for ordaining women pastors, Greenway went out of his way to defend that decision.

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He then went on to double down on that and take it even further by arguing that the Southern Baptist Convention’s statement of faith actually prohibits requiring member churches to adhere to the statement of faith. After a social media user suggested amending the SBC Constitution to require churches to adhere, he posted:

Over a month later, he’s still on Twitter trying to make his case for women pastors. Today, he published the following tweet pointing to a Lifeway “study guide” on the Southern Baptist Convention’s Baptist Faith and Message 2000 (BFM2K) arguing that the definition of “pastor” in the BFM2K is limited to the office of “senior pastor.”

First and foremost, one of the original authors of the BFM2K, Al Mohler, has already emphatically stated that Greenway’s interpretation is incorrect. You can watch that rebuke below if you haven’t already, but in short, he clearly states that ordaining women to the pastorate is a violation of the BFM2K.

That should be enough to put to rest the idea that the Southern Baptist Convention should be open to fellowshipping with churches that violate the Scriptures and rebel against biblical doctrine, but it isn’t. Greenway, and a growing number of vocal advocates for this kind of rebellion, are creating a movement and gaining ground.

These people don’t care about sound doctrine or even the souls of the people they are charged with guarding—they are man-pleasers and concern themselves with one thing: pleasing man in accordance with the whims of the pagan culture. Never mind that God has already defined what it means to be a pastor, the qualifications a pastor must meet, and the role of both men and women in the church.

The world demands we move into the 21st century, and men like Adam Greenway are hell-bent on carrying the Southern Baptist Convention into it—and Hell—in a handbasket. How much longer do we have to tolerate him before we recognize that he has no business training up pastors for the future generation of the Church?

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Newly-Elected Southern Baptist President Says Serial Homosexual Practice Won’t Send You to Hell

Why am I not surprised? Of course, Bart Barber believes repentance is not necessary and that “grace” covers the abomination. Bart does not believe God’s Holy Writ: Jude 4 “For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.” Romans 6:1-2 “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”

What else is there to say except I am glad that our church voted unanimously to leave the Southern Baptist Convention Wednesday evening. Maranatha, Pastor Steve <><

by Publisher | Jun 24, 2022 

In the words of James Merritt, “there is no leftward drift. None.” Obviously, that statement is absurd. The Southern Baptist Convention has now elected the third president in a row who has downplayed the sin of homosexuality.

In 2019, JD Greear—who was elected president in 2018—preached a sermon on Romans 1 and concluded that God believes other sins, such as boasting, are more egregious than homosexuality. In 2021, we revealed that his successor, Ed Litton, had been plagiarizing all of his sermons and taught this same, unbiblical teaching. For Greear and Litton, the Bible only “whispers” about homosexuality.

Now, some tweets from 2014 have surfaced and revealed that the newly-elected president, Bart Barber, believes that one can be saved and still practice unrepentant, serial homosexuality.

During a 2014 Twitter thread, Barber asserted that he believes that everyone at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, which was headed by Russell Moore at the time, believed this:

When pressed, he doubled down and compared homosexuality to boasting and said that practicing serial, unrepentant sin is not enough to send you to Hell if you are “saved by grace.”

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But the Scriptures do not teach this. The Scriptures teach that those who have been saved by grace cease to practice serial unrepentant sin and it is not ambiguous on this point.

⁴ Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. ⁵ You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. ⁶ No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. ⁷ Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. ⁸ Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. ⁹ No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. ¹⁰ By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother. —1 John 3:4-10

And:

⁹ Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. —1 Corinthians 6:9-11

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“I Would Rather Be Right…

….than President.”  Henry Clay

I agree, and have a wellspring of joy for our church’s unanimous decision this past Wednesday night to leave the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Denominations are good, only insofar that they stand on the Word of God. Once ANY denomination leaves God’s truth, Bible believing and Christ exalting Christians should all say: “Bye bye.” I was always a 1)Born Again Christian number one, and 2)a Southern Baptist number two. Number 2 is always subject to change if/when they leave God’s truth. [Adding icing to the cake is watching a current news flash: the overturning of Roe Vs. Wade, as I write this.] The SBC just elected their third consecutive president who is soft on the sin of sodomy. The new president, Bart Barber, believes that unrepentant, serial homosexuals, will go to heaven. Furthermore, the SBC totally ignored their own by-laws, and sanctified Rick Warren and Saddleback Church’s ordination of three women into the Gospel ministry one year ago this past Mother’s Day. The SBC has been hijacked by proponents of egalitarianism, Critical Race Theory, Black Lives Matter, the WOKE movement, Social Justice, etc., etc. The Conservative Baptist Network (CBN), although noble in our Biblical stance, has made no difference in the denouement of the SBC. There are some causes that are greater than our lives, and Jesus Christ / truth is one of them. As a pastor, I now have the monkey off of my back, and if today was my “day of visitation,” I would be ready to go home with a clear conscience. Yes, I was burdened about His judgment upon me for remaining in a sinful camp – especially as an under shepherd of the Great Shepherd. One can make all the excuses they want to; nonetheless God will judge us for what we do, and who we serve with. We sacrificed working with good local associates in ministry, in order to not hold hands with apostates. In Christ, Pastor Steve <><

Anti-Social Justice Pastor Tom Buck: “No Doubt in My Mind” There Will be a Split in the Southern Baptist Conventi…

…aberrant doctrines and teachings. He also commands us to purge those who persist in unrepentant sin from the ranks of our churches. There are at least three issues brewing in the Southern Baptist Convention that, if dealt with biblically, should ultimately lead to a separation and purge.

Over the years, we have documented heavily the leftward drift of the Southern Baptist Convention and its desperate need for either top-to-bottom reform or for faithful churches to leave the denomination altogether. While there have been good arguments from some like Rod Martin for staying to fight rather than handing over control of all of the institutions to the leftists, it is becoming increasingly clear that there is no winning this fight for conservatives.

Three of the primary controversies brewing in the Southern Baptist Convention that are causing division include…

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The call for division in the Church is sometimes biblically necessary as the Bible calls for unity among the brethren, to be of one mind and of one accord. The Bible calls us to be united around the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ — which is the most important message in the world. We are to be salt and light in a world overwhelmed with darkness. However, there are certain things where a division in the Church actually becomes a defining of the Church.

Paul commands Churches and Christians to separate from false teachers — those who hold to and promote aberrant doctrines and teachings. He also commands us to purge those who persist in unrepentant sin from the ranks of our churches. There are at least three issues brewing in the Southern Baptist Convention that, if dealt with biblically, should ultimately lead to a separation and purge.

Over the years, we have documented heavily the leftward drift of the Southern Baptist Convention and its desperate need for either top-to-bottom reform or for faithful churches to leave the denomination altogether. While there have been good arguments from some like Rod Martin for staying to fight rather than handing over control of all of the institutions to the leftists, it is becoming increasingly clear that there is no winning this fight for conservatives.

Three of the primary controversies brewing in the Southern Baptist Convention that are causing division include various factions of feminism, which manifests as egalitarianism in the Church. Also the growing influence of the LGBTQ movement and, most of all, the social justice movement. And there is an ever-dwindling tolerance among the leftist elites for the rank-and-file conservative Southern Baptists. Just this past week, the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution denouncing any effort to seek criminal penalties for women who willingly choose to have an abortion and instead suggesting that abortion is currently necessary and it is our job to provide social services to bribe mothers into keeping their children.

A prominent false teacher, Rick Warren, who pastors(ed) the second largest church in the Southern Baptist Convention, ordained three women to the pastorate last year in contradiction to the denomination’s stated beliefs. He was then given unlimited mic time at the annual meeting to give himself grand accolades on all of his accomplishments which led to the convention’s refusal to disfellowship the apostate church.

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Further, the Southern Baptist Convention just elected a radical Obama-supporting dunce to one of its highest offices as Tony Evans took the stage to deny the orthodox view of the Trinity—uncontested.

And not only did the Southern Baptist Convention’s sex abuse task force hire a pro-LGBTQ law firm to represent them during the sex abuse investigation, but they also hired a pro-LGBTQ firm to carry out the investigation and judge rather or not the SBC is acting in a righteous manner.

But at the forefront of the SBC’s slide to the left is its embrace of Critical Race Theory. In 2019, the SBC passed resolution 9 declaring that Critical Race Theory is a useful analytical tool for deciding whether or not white people are racist and how to deal with them effectively.

It should come as no surprise, then, that conservatives are growing increasingly fed up with the leftward drift and are ready to bail. And that’s exactly what Texas pastor, Tom Buck, predicts:

It’s coming. And it’s going to send shockwaves.#LeaveItToTheGoats pic.twitter.com/MS9FqOBoUK

— M a t t E s t e s (@Matt_Estes_) June 16, 2022

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Meet the New Southern Baptist Convention President, Bart Barber

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If you’ve been paying attention, you’re aware by now that this week’s Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting resulted in a blow to conservatives in a roughly 60-40 vote for the presidential office for Bart Barber against his conservative opponent, Tom Ascol. As we’ve been documenting, the Southern Baptist Convention has experienced severe liberal drift over the past decade which the liberals, themselves, have completely denied.

One prominent Southern Baptist pastor and former president proclaimed that “there is NO DRIFT. NONE.”

Of course, this comes from the same pastor who resigned from his post at Southeastern Seminary after backlash stemming from his promotion of his openly homosexual son’s “sermon” as “faithful to the gospel.” To be sure, there is no liberal drift. None. Right. Men like James Merritt are exactly who Jude warns about in Jude 1:4:

For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

The Southern Baptist Convention today looks absolutely nothing like the Southern Baptist Convention of 10, 15, 20 years ago. The drift has been so slow that nobody, not even James Merritt—who is one of the primogenitors of the drift—has noticed.

https://disntr.com/2022/06/17/meet-the-new-southern-baptist-convention-president-bart-barber/

To pretty much sum up the entire problem with the Southern Baptist Convention in one tweet, Nate Brooks, a professor at Reformed Theological Seminary, says he voted for Bart Barber not because of his commitment to Scripture, but because of his “winsomeness.”

What exactly is winsome? Google dictionary defines it as “attractive or appealing in appearance or character.” Do you know who else fits that definition of winsome? Satan. That’s right. Satan is winsome—his attractive and appealing character deceived Adam and Eve into disobeying God.

Winsome is not a biblical virtue, it is a tool of Satan.

So who exactly is this “winsome” Bart Barber?

Well, he is the perfect establishment marionette—he had all the SBC money-changers behind him. Our last SBC president, who is a serial plagiarist and has relentlessly insisted that he’s done nothing wrong, was relentlessly defended by Bart Barber.

The SBC has a public policy arm, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, that calls for lax abortion laws and decriminalizing mothers seeking abortions while arguing that she isn’t guilty of killing her child—Bart Barber agrees with them.

And he’s a fierce and implacable defender of one of the most apostate pastors to ever masquerade as a shepherd of God’s people in the Southern Baptist Convention, Dwight McKissic. McKissic has been divisive, race-baiting, and a promoter of pro-homosexual, pro-abortion political and judicial candidates around the nation for years while vilifying pro-life conservatives. McKissic, a pastor, even recently called for some abortions to remain legal in the wake of the expected Supreme Court Roe decision.

Bart Barber is primarily interested in “unity”—and right now, the Southern Baptist Convention has a superficial unity like never before seen.

Barber isn’t serious about doing what it takes to bring the Southern Baptist Convention back into a right relationship with God or honoring the covenant that Christ has with the Church. He isn’t interested in following the Apostle Paul’s commands to purge the unrepentant sinners, heretics, and false teachers from among us. He isn’t interested in defending the sheep from the insatiable appetites of the wolves seeking to devour us all. He’s only interested in maintaining that superficial unity at whatever cost—including the gospel itself.

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Southern Baptist Sex Abuse Investigation Firm Comes Out in Full Support of Homosexuality and Sexual Immorality

The Southern Baptist Convention has been embroiled in scandal after scandal over the past year since Ed Litton, the current Southern Baptist Convention president took office at the convention last year. Embroiled in his own plagiarism scandal, Litton was elected to implement and oversee an investigation into an alleged mass cover-up scheme of sex abuse within the Southern Baptist Convention.

The Dissenter has been covering the story of the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) political hit job perpetrated by Russell Moore, an ex-employee of the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. After he departed the denomination to join the staff at the apostate “Christian” publication, Christianity Today, to continue his liberal agenda, Moore leaked a letter to the press claiming he had knowledge of sex abuse involving women and children dating back nearly two years and alleged that SBC leaders pressured him to cover up these abuses.

To this day, Moore–a mandatory reporter–has not reported these allegations to the police, leaving only two possible conclusions: either Moore is committing a serious crime by not reporting these to the police, or is an unrepentant liar who is trying to smear the names of innocent people for political reasons.

So it should come as no surprise that after the investigation finally concluded and the report that came out was primarily a report of already publicly available information, that the investigation firm that these Southern Baptist leftists smear-hacks hired to carry out the investigation was a pro-LGBTQ feminist activist group.

The firm, Guidepost Solutions, broadcasts on its website that they “understand the challenges that faith-based organizations face in identifying, addressing and preventing issues such as sexual harassment and abuse” and bolster themselves as “experts in assessing cultural and organizational risks and providing concrete steps to facilitate change.”

https://disntr.com/2022/06/06/southern-baptist-sex-abuse-investigation-firm-comes-out-in-full-support-of-homosexuality-and-sexual-immorality/

What they didn’t tell us, at least up front, was that they actually hate the Church, hate God, and hate biblical doctrine. So, who is Guidepost Solutions really? Well, according to a recent social media post, they are “proud to be an ally to our LGBTQ+ community.”

Guidepost Solutions

@GuidepostGlobal

Guidepost is committed to strengthening diversity, equity and inclusion and strives to be an organization where our team can bring their authentic selves to work. We celebrate our collective progress toward equality for all and are proud to be an ally to our LGBTQ+ community.

Keep in mind, these are the people that the Southern Baptist Convention spent your tithe dollars on lead an investigation into alleged sex abuse and then report on it and make recommendations on how to fix it. And these recommendations, which Southern Baptist pastors like Bruce Frank and Ed Litton seem to be on board with, are not supported by Scripture and basically call for an end to “innocent until proven guilty” in the SBC.

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