Thread by @nc_clair

I'm gonna pray for #SBC19 that the Spirit brings a kind of #Pentecost to them that breaks off their arrogance, factionalism, authoritarianism. They only know how to tantrum, power up, and purge. Their deep work is to heal their love of power. #SBC

It's a love of power that uses Baptist distinctives to avoid real solutions to #SBCtoo it's a love of power for @albertmohler to say that the real crisis in #SBC is women preaching.
It's love of power that ignores Baptist distinctives to punish churches over adiaphora.

It's love of power that turns women preaching into a litmus test on orthodoxy. It's love of power that seeks to punish @drmoore for speaking truth to power. It's love of power to constantly need men to be warrior-kings, and to hold heresy about the Trinity to justify it. #SBC19

It's love of power that uses Gal. 3:28 to give cover to politics that actually harm BIPOC, but ignore it when it comes to the image of God in women and children. #SBC19 #SBCtoo #SBC

It's love of power that won't make a clear stand about leaders and churches that actually orphan our witness with their coziness with white nationalists, and with earthly power that is killing brown children at the border. #SBC19 #SBC

It's love of power when a panel of exclusively white men gather to essentially tell their brothers and sisters of color their concerns and experiences are not real nor biblical. #SBC19 #SBC