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Feb 21 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Dear SBC pastors & church members: This is the company that your #ARITF selected to administer the Ministry Check Website with your Cooperative Program gifts. If SBC "headquarters is the local church," then it is time for headquarters to stop this madness. 1/
The #ARITF admits that they know Guidepost supports "causes contrary to Southern Baptist beliefs" as an "ally" to LGBTQ+ activists, but they choose this organization anyway. Are you satisfied with this? Are you content to have millions of CP dollars go to this organization? 2/
If not, then let those who work for you hear from you & demand a change. Otherwise, prepare to explain to the members of your church that their offerings will be going to a "proud ally" of those committed to the sexual perversion of our society. 3/
The SBC &@SBCExecComm are at a crossroads. Which way will we choose? Call your ExCom members & let them know that you will not stand for this abuse of power & failure of leadership.

May God have mercy. 4/4

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Jun 4, 2021
A Needed Word from Spurgeon for #SBC21:

“We admire a man who was firm in the faith, say four hundred years ago...but such a man today is a nuisance, and must be put down. Call him a narrow-minded bigot, or give him a worse name if you can think of one. 1/8
"Yet imagine that in those ages past, Luther, Zwingle, Calvin, and their compeers had said, ‘The world is out of order; but if we try to set it right we shall only make a great row, and get ourselves into disgrace. 2/8
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"Let us go to our chambers, put on our night-caps, and sleep over the bad times, and perhaps when we wake up things will have grown better.’ Such conduct on their part would have entailed upon us a heritage of error. 3/8
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Jun 2, 2021
Unless grace is given to make a man strong in the Lord, educated believers are in these days frequently tempted to aspire after the position of "leaders of thought,” “men who are abreast of the times,” and “persons of thoughtful minds.”

—C. H. Spurgeon 1/4
Old-fashioned believers are at a discount, and are sneered at as a kind of idiots: this is not a pleasant experience for those who know that they are the equals, if not the superiors, of their despisers.

—C. H. Spurgeon 2/4
If we are strong in the Lord, we shall cast off all tendency to give place by subjection to the theories of the hour, even as a vigorous constitution resists the malaria by which it is surrounded:

—C. H. Spurgeon 3/4
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May 1, 2021
This is quite a contrast to BH Carroll, founder of @SWBTS, who said, "The modern cry: “Less creed and more liberty,” is a, degeneration from the vertebrate to the jellyfish, and means less unity and less morality, and it means more heresy." 1/6
Carroll also said, "All the modern hue and cry against dogma is really against morals. The more we reduce the number of the creed articles, the more we undermine practical religion." 2/
And, "A Christian’s creed should enlarge, and not diminish, up to the last utterance of revelation in order that each article might be transmitted into experience."
—BH Carroll 3/
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Jan 19, 2021
On this day in 1563 the Heidelberg Catechism was published. It is the most Christological & warm-hearted of all the Protestant catechisms. Zacharius Ursinus is the main author. His commentary on it is worth reading. 1/
The 1st Q&A is a profound statement of gospel truth.
Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death?

A. That I am not my own, but belong–body and soul, in life and in death–to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. 2/
He has fully paid for all my sins with His precious blood, & has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven; 3/
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Sep 6, 2020
A major part of CRT is its presuppositions—which it demands you accept, including:
• Racism is engrained in the fabric & system of the American society
• Power structures based on white privilege & white supremacy exist & must be overthrown.
Does this seem like a “boogeyman”? 1
Therefore, "Does racism exist in this situation" is never the right question. Rather, it's, "How is the racism we KNOW is present here working?" CRT demands that you assume racism. Suggesting otherwise is racist. Even asking for evidence is racist. 2/
The only hope of being (partially) justified in the CRT worldview is to:
1) accept its presuppositions, admit the inherent if unconscious racism of all white people & black people who disagree because of "internalized whiteness," 3/
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Feb 13, 2019
Tisby: “Christians who genuinely want to atone for any personal acts of racism must focus on dismantling racial inequality as it persists across systems and society.” This is what’s wrong with his brand of SJ. IT EVISCERATES THE GOSPEL! Read & weep:
religionnews.com/2019/02/11/chr… 1/4
Note that he offers instructions for Christians to *atone* for their own sins. The atonement of Christ is not enough in Tisby’s brand of social justice. If you fail to measure up to SJ standards, then you must be made to pay. The SJ gospel replaces repentance with penance. 2/4
This is why I & others have sounded the alarm against the SJ tsunami that is rushing into evangelical churches—too often at the encouragement of leaders who think they are advocating righteousness. The SJ gospel eschews biblical atonement, justification, reconciliation, 3/4
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