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Jun 15 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
Again just to put this in perspective:

Saddleback church ordains women pastors. Our BFM 2000 says only men are pastors.

1. The credentials committee wouldn’t touch it. Lady said some ppl define pastor as a gift for many persons. Floor said “Nooo!” @EdLitton reprimanded them.
2. The president of @swbts, @AdamGreenway, worked to keep the door open for Saddleback & women pastors by speaking aggressively against @albertmohler

3. @bartbarber & resolutions committee rejected an amendment to a resolution that said only qualified men can preach.
4. While messengers were castigated and cut off by the Platform all day, Rick Warren was allowed a free full 5 min or more to exalt the glories of Rick Warren and applauded by the stage and many messengers.

This isn’t “drift”. It’s full speed departure. #sbc22

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Jun 13
Today is my 36th birthday. Given we are waking up in Anaheim, CA on eve of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, a crucial meeting for southern baptists, I thought I'd write a 🧵 a/b how my birthday has put @tomascol’s faithfulness as a pastor into perspective…

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You see, in June 1986, in His providence, the Lord was coordinating two events that are quite important to me! One was my own healthy delivery in Killeen, TX. The other i wouldn’t know until a couple decades later: Tom Ascol becoming pastor at Grace Baptist in Cape Coral, FL.
So while I was learning to walk and talk and as I traveled around as a young boy with my mom and dad doing rodeos, Tom Ascol was faithfully shepherding God’s people.
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Apr 26
As a pastor of a normative size SBC congregation, I can assure you that what those in the pew want more than anything else when it comes to the SBC is trust. They want to be able to trust that the money they give is being stewarded well according to conservative theology.
They want to trust Lifeway and NAMB and the IMB and our 6 seminaries. They want to be able to trust that the churches we plant and the missionaries we send and the partnerships we have and the curriculum we us is all actually conservative in theology AND practice.
They want to trust that the ERLC isn’t supporting those who are pro abortion or helping Christians vote for those who are pro abortion in anyway.

But in all of these things and more there is such a culture of mistrust.
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Jan 6
A🧵 for clarity:

When I say “liberal drift” I mean setting a course in a direction (intentional or not) that ends up denying the authority & inerrancy of the Scriptures altogether. Anytime we abandon the sufficiency of the scriptures we move that way, intentional or not.
So, one says “well its okay to be on different sides about whether or not SSA is a sin.”

But if one denies the sinfulness of SSA, they are denying the Scriptures sufficiency to speak to the issue. And they are (intentional or not) moving in the direction of outright liberalism.
One says “well plagiarism is wrong but it’s not liberalism.”

But when one denies the sacred duty of proclaiming the truth of God in shepherding his people he is denying the scriptures sufficiency (& also denying it in its qualifications for pastoral ministry)
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Jan 4
Last night our little Ella came up to me and said she has been converted to Christ after reading a short fictional book on John Bunyan's blind daughter, Mary.
Ella can answer all the typical salvation questions correctly (which any child in a Christian home ought to be able to do). We do hold out great hope that she has been born again! At the same time, since she is still so young (10), it is prudent for us
to continue to counsel her, observe her, and point her to Christ before we baptize her. There needs to be balance here of course, but I believe conservative evangelicalism has been greatly harmed by hasty baptisms of young children
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Dec 14, 2021
Was the coming of Jesus into the world good? Absolutely.

Yet, there also was tremendous tragedy accompanying his arrival. Herod murdered children under 2 in Bethlehem trying to kill Jesus (Matt. 2:16).

Commentator Daniel Doriani notes,
“Bethlehem and its environs had a modest population, so that perhaps no more than twenty boys were slain. Still, it was a great tragedy for those families and that town.”

In one sense it’s *because* Jesus entered the world that led to the murder of these children.
*Because* Jesus came, Herod ordered this horrendous deed that affected many families. Herod is to blame of course. But it doesn’t take away this point:

Experientially, I’ve seen people come to Christ and the physical aspects of their lives doesn’t get better at all.
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Nov 30, 2021
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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