tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30991724.post7229593103603202212..comments2024-02-27T03:28:22.684-06:00Comments on In Defense of the Gospel: SBC Decides Against Expelling Members of Pro-Homosexual Baptist Alliance: What is the “Militant” Separatist to Do?Lou Martuneachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08683967904677815711noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30991724.post-62277170100934633842011-03-01T19:51:34.342-06:002011-03-01T19:51:34.342-06:00Kirk:
Thanks for the encouragement. Events such a...Kirk:<br /><br />Thanks for the encouragement. Events such as what I’ve shown here are important to be known on a number of levels. For those of us in fundamental circles we need to see what lies just ahead for those who are inclined to embrace, defend and minister with evangelicals. What Dever and Mohler will surely tolerate you will to if you want to be accepted by them and invited to their platforms and accept an invitation to yours.<br /><br />What Dever and Mohler do does not concern me a great deal. I suspect they will do what non-separatists do, possibly express some concern and stay in the SBC as if nothing is amiss. What I do want to see is what I asked about in the article above in regard to Brothers Doran and Bauder. Will they, just as with Mohler signing the <i>Manhattan Declaration</i>, excuse the act as an “<i>occasional inconsistency…single episode</i>” (KB) and merely, “<i>a wrong decision based on bad judgment</i>”(DD)?<br /><br />All signs indicate that Doran, Bauder, Jordan and Olson have made up their minds to tolerate these troubling things from the evangelicals and will continue the path they trod toward greater fellowship with them. Lord willing, many who are being influenced to follow this road of compromise will now step back realizing that cooperative fellowship with men who do and/or tolerate the ecumenism (MD) and decisions for inclusion of pro-homosexual churches is an offense to God, His Word and His Gospel. <br /><br /><br />LMLou Martuneachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08683967904677815711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30991724.post-11530844039516351522011-03-01T19:23:40.267-06:002011-03-01T19:23:40.267-06:00Lou,
You and I indeed agree 100% on this. It is ...Lou,<br /><br />You and I indeed agree 100% on this. It is very troubling to say the least. It will be interesting to see what Mohler and Dever do. The world is watching! Thanks for bringing this to light!<br />KirkKirk Dickersonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30991724.post-77409548722598753162011-03-01T12:10:53.253-06:002011-03-01T12:10:53.253-06:00In reading Dr. Pickering, I have been reminded onc...In reading Dr. Pickering, I have been reminded once again, and I believe this is heart of the issue we are dealing with, how do we view sin and God's command for holiness? How sinful is sin to us? Any sin? How holy are we? Our standard is God and His Word, not our fellow believer down the street, not the person in the pew behind us, not the pastor of the neighboring church; it is God and His Word.<br />These "adjustments" that DD, KB, MO, TJ have made are not reflective of the Biblical commands of separation from sin and to God in His holiness, actually quite the opposite.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08924581374605153929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30991724.post-65074348005761813032011-03-01T10:12:10.984-06:002011-03-01T10:12:10.984-06:00Brian:
I appreciate your sharing another example ...Brian:<br /><br />I appreciate your sharing another example from Dr. Pickering that speaks to the issues we face today. This news from the SBC is no surprise and it exemplifies that the SBC has not exactly been moving in the direction of Fundamentalism. It has been the opposite; some of our men are moving toward and embracing evangelicalism.<br /><br /> Bauder, Doran, Jordan and Olson must think they can hobnob with non-separatists and not wind up in the <i>theological wasteland</i> the way men before them did who tried this kind of convergence. Maybe they think they are immune to the “<i>gangrene</i>.”<br /><br /><br />LouLou Martuneachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08683967904677815711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30991724.post-27466440216918521652011-02-28T16:37:49.810-06:002011-02-28T16:37:49.810-06:00Thanks Lou for bringing this to light. Since so mu...Thanks Lou for bringing this to light. Since so much ink has been split about the resurgence of conservatism within the SBC over the past few decades, this incident by the hierarchy reminds me of a paragraph from Dr. Pickering's book, <i>Biblical Separation.</i><br /><i>"This is one of the very concerns of those who are separatists. The gangrene of false doctrine spreads. The only remedy is to separate from that body into which it has been introduced and where it is protected and encouraged. While sincere brethren have been trying (some of them for years) to excise the tumor in their respective denominations, <b>they have yet to produce an illustration of a denomination into whose bosom apostasy has been introduced that was later restored to a state of spiritual good health.</b> (emphasis mine) We do not know of such an illustration."</i><br />The SBC continues to validate Dr. Pickering's observation. While there may be some who are of a conservative stripe, the SBC is skeleton of its former self when it comes to standing for the faith once delivered.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08924581374605153929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30991724.post-76490184050837145392011-02-28T14:56:29.471-06:002011-02-28T14:56:29.471-06:00To All:
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