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The Southern Baptist Convention, Far Past The Age Of Accountability
These issues inside an organization like the Southern Baptist Convention are not about theology or faith at all, but about power and money
The Southern Baptist Convention is meeting this week in Nashville. 16,000 “messengers” will converge to vote on the message for the forthcoming year, amendments and statements, and elect leadership. The gathering, “Annual Meeting” in the SBC nomenclature, happens every year that isn’t a pandemic, but this year you are going to see plenty of mainstream news coverage of the event. Think of it as an Robert’s Rules of Order, wrapped in a trade convention, but with sermons and singing, while functioning as the world’s largest church business meeting.
But that isn’t why the secular press is all over the SBC meeting this year. The mainstream coverage of America’s largest Christian denomination is going to be focused on one subject seemingly everyone is talking about, one topic nobody seems to want to talk about, and a planned invasion of pirates.
Yes, I said pirates. I wish I was joking. This is a bit of a long rip from David French’s Sunday newsletter but it condenses a lot of what is going on with the SBC well:
With revelation…
