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Southern Baptists, Immigration & Ducks

June 29th, 2011 | 31 Comments

“If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it must be a duck.” Despite their best efforts, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Resolutions Committee cannot convince some Southern Baptists (including this one) that their Immigration Resolution was not a call for the government to grant amnesty to 12-15 million “undocumented immigrants.”  That the Gospel was used as a test of whether one has true compassion for the undocumented immigrants among us makes the arguments for the passage of this Resolution all the more unconvincing and unpersuasive.  In the end, the Immigration Resolution had the walk, quack, and look of a duck (i.e., amnesty), and there was nothing that the Resolutions Committee could do to change that fact.  That they had to add a clarification “Resolved” only after a razor-thin … Read entire article »

Filed under: Immigration Reform, Religion, Southern Baptist Convention

Southern Baptists & the Homosexual Culture

June 24th, 2011 | 8 Comments

With the New York State Senate on the verge of taking up an historic bill which would legalize same-sex marriage, the cultural battle over this hot-button issue is not going away anytime soon.  In fact, the push for gay rights will continue to pick up steam, plowing over everything that stands in its way. Within the next three to five years, our nation will undergo a sea change in its perception of gay rights, including the rights of gay couples to marry.  President Obama, whose position on gay marriage continues to evolve, will finally make public what most everyone thinks he already believes, namely that gay Americans should be afforded the same rights to marriage as heterosexuals.  Even as he was raising millions in campaign cash from the New York Gay, Lesbian, … Read entire article »

Filed under: Homosexual Agenda, Religion, Southern Baptist Convention, Uncategorized

Blogging From Phoenix: ONLY If the Lord Wills!

June 17th, 2011 | 4 Comments

This will be my last post before I head to Phoenix on Sunday for the start of the SBC Aspire Pastor’s Conference and the Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention.  I’ll be posting regular updates from Phoenix beginning Monday morning.  I’m not sure that I’ll be “live blogging” per se, but check back often throughout next week for my take on the goings-on at this year’s event.  With the number of messengers making the trip to Phoenix maybe one of the lowest on record, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it will be a dull Convention. (SBC Phoenix: Grassroots Voices Speak Out!) Famous last words before heading to Phoenix!  Coming off the highest weekly readership to date for From Law to Grace, I just knew that the SBC Pastor’s Conference and Annual Meeting … Read entire article »

Filed under: Ministry, Religion, Southern Baptist Convention

SBC Phoenix: Grassroots Voices Speak Out!

June 10th, 2011 | 12 Comments

This will be my last post before I head to Phoenix on Sunday for the start of the SBC Aspire Pastor’s Conference and the Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention.  I’ll be posting regular updates from Phoenix beginning Monday morning.  I’m not sure that I’ll be “live blogging” per se, but check back often throughout next week for my take on the goings-on at this year’s event.  With the number of messengers making the trip to Phoenix maybe one of the lowest on record, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it will be a dull Convention. Unless you happen to read The Pathway, Missouri Baptists’ State newspaper, you would have no idea that a motion will be made at the Convention which calls for revisiting the recommendations of the GCR.  The motion, which … Read entire article »

Filed under: Great Commission Resurgence, Religion, Southern Baptist Convention

Race, Politics & the SBC in Phoenix

June 9th, 2011 | 7 Comments

Only five days before the Southern Baptist Convention will meet in Phoenix, temperature are rising.  Although I previously wrote that the weather inside the Convention Hall would probably be mild, I am beginning to think I may have to revise my forecast for inside where the 5,000 to 7,000 (estimated) messengers will gather. Why?  Because of recent comments about a candidate for 1st Vice President.  Bryant Wright will most likely run unopposed for a customary second term as President of the SBC.  However, in Tuesday’s post, Countdown to SBC Phoenix:  What to Expect, I wrote: “While I do no expect anyone else to run against Wright, the offices of 1st and 2nd Vice President, both largely ceremonial, could provide some drama in an otherwise scripted affair.” No sooner had I written those words than both … Read entire article »

Filed under: Christianity, Politics, Religion, Southern Baptist Convention

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