{"id":3059,"date":"2012-02-21T21:06:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T04:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2012-02-21T21:06:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T04:06:50","slug":"its-go-time-mendelbaum-mendelbaum-mendelbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/?p=3059","title":{"rendered":"“It’s Go Time!” Mendelbaum, Mendelbaum, Mendelbaum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr. Mendelbaum (played wonderfully by the late Lloyd Bridges), would, in some memorable episodes, challenge Jerry Seinfeld to feats of strength by goading him with the catchphrase, “It’s go time!”<\/em>\u00a0 I’m reminded of that tonight, having driven all day from Dallas and thinking throughout the drive about the Nickname proposal put forth by an “unofficial”<\/em>\u00a0Task Force and given legitimacy tonight by most members of the SBC’s Executive Committee (thankfully there were a few who had the courage to stand against this proposal).\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

In several tweets by Dr. R. Albert Mohler, President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, now known as a “Great Commission Baptists institution”<\/em>\u00a0(who needs the messengers to vote on this?), Dr. Mohler, who is no doubt a brilliant scholar and theologian, communicates a condescension unbecoming the President of one of our entities.\u00a0 Of course, I could be reading entirely too much into\u00a0the tweets, much like others have read too much into Dr. Mohler’s use of the word “Reformed”<\/em> in a Gospel Coalition interview<\/a>.\u00a0 For those who don’t tweet or follow people on Twitter, I thought you might be interested in\u00a0a few of Dr. Mohler’s tweets regarding the Executive Committee deliberations on the Nickname proposal<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

“A member of the SBC\/EC just voted against receiving information. It does tend to cut down on mental clutter.” (2\/21\/12 at 1:36 p.m.)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“SBC\/EC member just argued against the name change proposal saying, “Southern Baptists are easily confused.” No argument on that point, huh?” (2\/21\/12 at 1:19 p.m.)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Let the word go forth: THE Southern Baptist Theological Seminary proudly is a Great Commission Baptists institution.” (2\/20\/12 at 7:38 p.m.)<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am glad\u00a0that Dr. Mohler felt comfortable enought to post these unrestrained comments\u00a0on his\u00a0Twitter feed, particular the one directed at a member of the Executive Committee (paging Dr. Page —\u00a0 hello).\u00a0 One can only imagine how he and others really view the unwashed masses who help pay his salary, but who are obviously an “easily confused”<\/em>\u00a0people (although I’m sure that’s not what he meant, even though that is the most reasonable interpretation of his words).\u00a0 As Mr. Mendelbaum would say, “It’s go time!”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mr. Mendelbaum (played wonderfully by the late Lloyd Bridges), would, in some memorable episodes, challenge Jerry Seinfeld to feats of strength by goading him with the catchphrase, “It’s go time!”\u00a0 I’m reminded of that tonight, having driven all day from Dallas and thinking throughout the drive about the Nickname proposal put forth by an “unofficial”\u00a0Task…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,35,1371,37],"tags":[3370,1579,3403,1612,1611,3392,872,3401,1610,889,1614,1325,1613,1011],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-religion","category-sbc-name-change","category-southern-baptist-convention","tag-christianity","tag-dr-albert-mohler","tag-great-commission-baptists","tag-its-go-time","tag-mendelbaum","tag-religion","tag-sbc-executive-committee","tag-sbc-name-change","tag-sbc-nickname","tag-seinfeld","tag-the-great-commission","tag-the-southern-baptist-theological-seminary","tag-tweets","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LP7G-Nl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}