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Allen S. Nelson IV

2 Feb, 10 tweets, 2 min read

It is going to be a volatile few months leading up to the SBC meeting in Nashville. And I’m saddened. I’m saddened as look at the SBC landscape and I see men lining up on a different side than me that I once greatly admired and respected.

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I’m saddened at seemingly well meaning brothers and sisters who have completely capitulated on women’s roles in the church and have allowed and promoted the preaching of women and even approved of women serving as pastors as long as it’s not a “lead pastor”

I’m saddened that our SBC President canceled church for so long in 2020. And that many in the SBC do not seem to understand and appreciate the essentialness of the local church and it’s nature: regenerate church membership, biblical worship, etc.

I’m saddened by our move away in some areas from the sufficiency of the gospel for reconciliation with God and men and our departure from the sufficiency of scripture.

I’m saddened that instead of men seeking to understand why the CBN exists they just complain about Paige Patterson.

I’m saddened that so many rail on Founders which has only sought to uphold sound and historic southern baptist theology and bring glory to Christ.

I am saddened by all this and more. And I am saddened that we have to fight. But here’s the deal: I have chosen to remain southern baptist so that I can fight. Not because I want to fight. But because the day and hour have come.

If you relish conflict, I ask you to bow out now. This isn’t fighting for the sake of fighting. The SBC is drifting and there are multiple options for us. Some are abandoning ship. Fine. Others want to burn it down. I don’t. I want to take it.

I want to see the banner of Christ lifted high above the SBC as we seek to trust His Word and live His ways and honor our commitment to what we’ve said the Bible says (that’s the BFM 2000).

I understand there may come a day when I no longer can stay in the SBC. But while I remain I will contend for truth. The next few months will be tumultuous as more comes out. And I am burdened. But I am also resolved. If the SBC sinks it won’t be because some of us didn’t try.

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Allen S. Nelson IV

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22 Jan

In CRT the only way not to be a racist is to agree with the tenets of CRT regarding power structures and oppression. What some Southern Baptists are trying to do is say “hey we can use the ‘good’ parts of crt to help identify sin areas.”

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Btw, that’s at best. And I always appreciate the humble brothers and sisters who genuinely want to identify and fight sin.

However, they are wrong. First, because there is nothing necessary that CRT brings that helps identify sin issues that cannot be identified w/ Scripture.

2ndly, what CRT identifies as problems are not even biblical categories for sin: such as just being white or a white male or a white housewife or whatever. Those are not sin issues.

3rdly, CRT wrongly emphasizes that man’s problem is first w/ man, and not God. 1000x wrong.

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Allen S. Nelson IV

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18 Dec 20

https://twitter.com/daddy0306/status/1339970700891832322

I just read these statements. A few reactions:

1. I’m not sure how many times the SBC can repent for its being founded on slavery.

2. The original statement is so laden with CRT categories like “power” and “influence” that it is either done in blatant ignorance or maliciously

https://twitter.com/daddy0306/status/1339970700891832322

3. To accuse brothers, like me, who rightly hate CRT of only caring about “winning” is the height of uncharitableness.

4. JD said “I, for one, remain committed to a posture of humility.” I have a 4a and 4b to that:

4a. JD could have shown this by stepping down as president and giving his position to a minority person. That is, if he *actually* believed what he is writing. But it appears to me he does not. 4b. why is pro CRT the “humble” position? This seems like virtue signaling to the max

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Allen S. Nelson IV

@cuatronelson

23 Nov 20

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Here’s a long thread for your Monday!

For the United States: In 1820 the avg life expectancy was 40. In 1920 it was 60. In 2020 it is 80.

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I’ve said this for a few years now but I think longer life expectancy has actually caused us to handle the reality of death even worse. Billions of dollars are spent every year just on fighting the appearance of aging!

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Though we now live twice as many years on average as Americans 200 years ago, I’m not sure we are living twice the life as so much time, energy, and money is spent on avoiding the inevitable.

The covid-19 crisis has only illuminated this issue.

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Allen S. Nelson IV

@cuatronelson

11 Aug 20

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It’s ok to have diff ideas on what our weekly physical assembly in local church looks like during COVID-19. We ought to be charitable in this.

However one of the biggest things I’m seeing since March is we have a rather weak ecclesiology in “conservative” Christianity

Actually, this was evident before Covid-19. Take for example the lineup for our SBC 2020 PC and the worship practices of pastors invited to preach.

But Covid has only shined a brighter light on a big problem in evangelicalism. We don’t understand the church.

We think we can participate in the Lord’s Supper “virtually”. We think we can “be” the church apart from regular assembly with the church. We think we can dispense with pastors preaching and replace it with small groups. Not to mention many think women preaching is okay.

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Allen S. Nelson IV

@cuatronelson

9 Aug 20

For a couple of different reasons I think we need to not think of Sunday as part of the “weekend”. First, it’s not accurate. Sunday is the beginning of the week, not the end. It is literally the first day of the week.

Secondly, the “weekend” makes us think of time to ourselves or perhaps for recreation, sports, extra projects, hobbies, etc. but Sunday is not “our day”. It is the Lord’s Day. The day Christ rose from the dead.

The day, as the Baptist Faith and Message rightly states, is to “include exercises of worship and spiritual devotion, both public and private.”

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Allen S. Nelson IV

@cuatronelson

6 Jul 20

When 21st century evangelicals look down from their ivory towers to judge the sins of our forefathers saying “farewell” to Edwards, or throwing away gavels, or generally just dismissing the orthodoxy of faithful men it reveals 3 things:

1. They are caught up in the current cultural revolution. This revolution has no atonement. It’s end is death.
2. They have no concept of the pervasiveness of their own remaining sin. They don’t accept simul justus et peccator

3. They have no concept of the magnitude of God’s Grace. They can’t explain, for example, David’s life. How he had multiple wives and concubines and yet how we also rightly learn from him in so many other areas. This doesn’t condone his wrongs.

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