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27 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Like 10’s of thousands of the rural southern Baptist pastors, I missed a couple days in the study this week because of Thanksgiving. On top of that, I’m sure like thousands of others, I had pastoral visits, hospital visits, and a Saturday funeral to preach.

Why mention this?
I mention this not to brag nor to complain but to simply say, no matter what the week may bring, we dare not “subcontract” our great privilege and duty of preaching God’s Word to our people on this coming Lord’s Day. No sermon team. No copying others’ work.

Instead,
Studying to show ourselves approved. Breaking open the Word of God with the fruits of our own study, own illustrations, and preaching to our own people, Thus saith the Lord.

Preaching God’s Word week in and week out is a sacred duty. May we dare not neglect it or minimize it!
Shame on any that would treat this task trivially

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30 Nov
I appreciate Dr. Merritt stepping down from SEBTS. He should. I also appreciate Dr. Akin honoring that request to resign. A gracious departure is okay.

But, a big BUT, what’s not okay is the silence over *the* issue at hand.

Reminds me of:
When @BethMooreLPM left SBC. She *should have* left SBC as she wasn’t southern baptist for a long time. And we didn’t need blog posts lamenting her departure. She left because she wasn’t southern Baptist. And it’s sad that wasn’t addressed by many in leadership positions.

BUT:
Dr. Merritt’s situation is different. He has declined an SBC seminary professorship *b/c* he has endorsed the preaching of an openly gay man and a sermon that was gospel-less calling it faithful.

(This is all the more sad since the gay man is his son.)
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1 Oct
I’ve seen some states, including Arkansas, posting open letters to the @SBCExecComm urging them to waive attorney client privilege. I have a few thoughts about this:
First, it seems to me that the SBC is unequivocally on the same page about standing against sexual abuse. Let’s put that out there. I don’t know of a single Southern baptist that isn’t against abuse.
Secondly, just because a brother or sister is against waiving attorney client privilege does NOT mean they are pro abuse or even anti baptist polity btw. We need to be more charitable there.
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2 Jul
Ok. I just finished the @EdLitton interview from @SBCthisWeek. The following are some initial thoughts. I don't feel like writing a blog today, so you'll have to deal with a twitter thread.

Here we go:
1. @Jonathan_Howe had an opportunity on behalf of southern Baptists to ask gracious and yet forthright and pointed questions to Pastor Ed. What about the horse joke, driver's ed, Augustine comment - what about these minute details here? How did that play into the "research"?
I don't know Jonathan. But he failed here in a big way. He did not serve Pastor Ed, southern baptists, or the "watching world" helpfully by glossing over these issues.

Further,
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30 Jun
I am thankful for people thinking through these issues. What @howertonjosh does not address is:

1. Litton is not a church planter. He’s a mega church pastor. His most important tasks are prayer and ministry of the Word. What’s he doing with all his time?
2. This isn’t Litton borrowing a bullet for his gun. It’s him showing JD’s shooting range target score as if he’s the one that shot it.

3. This didn’t happen one time. There are 4 documented cases.

4. This isn’t borrowing thoughts or ideas but repeated verbatim verbiage.
5. Teaching in school and preaching are simply not analogous here. Poll any southern baptist congregation and ask if they think they are hearing their pastor’s sermon or him preaching someone else’s on Sunday morning?
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9 Apr
Regeneration is a total change. It’s not a change into perfection of course. But it frees our will, changes our heart, gives us a new nature,
new affections, new desires. WE ARE MADE ALIVE!!! (Eph 2:5)
Before regeneration we are the walking dead. Loving sin. Haters of God. Loving our own self. We think the world revolves around us. We are slaves to our passions. We follow Satan. We chase after the world.

BUT GOD.
When God makes us alive we go from hating God to loving Him. We love the Scriptures. We love the Church. We love to pray.

If these are not true of a person, that person has not been made alive.
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8 Apr
A Thread (and a resolve): (11 tweets)

1/

A defining issue for #SBC21 will be this: Can women, in *any* context, preach to men - with preaching defined as expositing a text of Scripture with "logic on fire" (DMLJ)?
2/ Maybe we can frame the question a little better but it needs to be asked to entity heads and perhaps written up in a resolution. And we probably need to affix it to the BFM but that will take two meetings.
3/ Are there more important theological issues than women preaching to men? Yes, of course. But in the SBC this is an important dividing line because it reveals differences about gender roles, sufficiency of Scripture, ecclesiology, and even in some cases CRT...
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