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Jimmy Scroggins

28 Jun, 11 tweets, 3 min read

SBC Thread. 1. Last night I spent 20 minutes after a congregational business meeting defending our church connection to the #SBC.

@drjamesmerritt

2. These are relatively new believers who somehow went down the rabbit hole of SBC Twitter. Mind you - they don’t know the difference between @drjamesmerritt and @HunterCrowder6, @drmoore or @BethMooreLPM.

3. They said “Why in the world are we affiliated with a group that treats one another like that!?!” They were appalled at the vitriol, meanness, snark and “gotcha” attitude.

4. Then they told me they hosted a zoom Bible study for seekers on the weekends, and that one guy (not a believer) said “Please tell me you guys are involved with that Southern Baptist group. They are awful!” He was referring to what he had read on social media.

5. Our church is a legacy, downtown, First Baptist Church. SBC for the past 120 years. Charter members of our local Baptist Association. And now I’m having to defend our relationship.

6. Of course I’m happy to explain why we are SBC. Over 3000 fully funded missionaries. 100’s of church plants every year. Disaster relief. The 6 best seminaries in the world. All guided by our common confession of faith. It’s the best thing going.

7. Plus we love Florida Baptists. Our State Convention is phenomenal. I would network with the Florida Baptist Convention even if the rest of the SBC quit.

8. I just think the level of attack mentality on here hurts our witness with outsiders. BUT it also wounds the enthusiasm for our cooperative work with people INSIDE our churches.

9. Maybe instead of trying to own each other on Twitter we could do the hard work of picking up the phone, having some face to face meetings, and working this stuff out.

10. “We already tried that and it didn’t work - the other side are all dishonest.” Some people ARE dishonest.

11. But I believe our SBC is MOSTLY good people, trying to do good things, with a good heart. We need more kind people on here speaking more generously and more kindly. Or else the mean people will speak for all the people. I’m afraid that’s what’s happening now.

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