Thread by @BethMooreLPM

I hope to speak calmly this AM. In my estimation, the handwriting was on the wall that this witch-hunt was tragically inevitable when the 6 SBC seminary presidents signed the statement declaring CRT incomparable with the Baptist Faith & Message BECAUSE 1) It wasn’t

made clear to many what qualifies as CRT & what does NOT. 2) Many people aren’t going to do the homework on how to differentiate between CRT & BIBLICAL priorities of justice & BIBLICAL mandates against injustice. If you don’t think God frowns on injustices committed or blessed by

people who claim to belong to him, you simply aren’t reading your Bible. I don’t have to be a seminary president to suggest reading the prophets if you want to know what kind of hell there can be to pay when we, the people of God, deal unjustly or stand by silently in its midst.

3) Because of 1 & 2, the moment someone preaches, teaches or speaks against racism or injustice, many church congregations, Christian organizations, students & faculty members of Christian universities & seminaries are now primed to see devils behind every bush and holler “CRT!!”

I beg you to hear me here: godly people are losing their jobs and WILL lose their jobs by the hundreds over this witchhunt for simply teaching Biblical righteousness. They are no more proponents of CRT than they are horned toads. I am not a proponent of CRT but I will not for

one second relent on stating as obvious fact that systemic injustice thrives in America. You have to have a blindfold on not to see it. Believing there is such a thing as systemic injustice does not equal CRT. Brothers & sisters, we are spreading lies and it is harmful & sinful.

And there is no lie as binding as the one we’re willing to tell ourselves in order to protect our positions & power structures. When the church is driven by fear & lies rather than by love & truth, it may be some kind of church but it is not Christ’s. I write in lay-person terms.

I’m not an academic. I’m a Bible studying Jesus freak who loves the church. I’ll inevitably have said some of this poorly. I require a lot of grace and I ask you to look to the heart of it and test the spirit. I have written these things in love and deep concern.

Incompatible! (1st tweet of the thread) Not incomparable. Good grief. Sorry, y’all. I didn’t catch that auto correct.