This message was delivered by Pastor JD Hall of Fellowship Baptist Church in Sidney, Montana. It is taken from Galatians 3:15:18 and focuses on Covenant Theology and the
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Apple has removed the Living Hope Ministries app from their app store. This removal stems from a complaint, an online petition from the radically progressive LGBTQ group Truth Wins Out. The group claims that the app is spreading “homophobic garbage and hate.”
In defense of the app Ricky Chelette, the executive director of Living Hope Ministries, said in a letter to The Christian Post that the app was developed three years ago. He also stated, “We help people understand who they are in Christ,” Chelette said. “We only help those individuals who are seeking us.”
Chelette also stated. “I think it’s unfortunate that the advocacy group doesn’t know what we do and is assuming that we’re some hate organization. We are not,” Chelette said. “We love gay-identified individuals.”
Unfortunately, in the social media charged consumer-driven world we live in it is not shocking that Apple would take the side of the who can do the most damage to the Apple brand. In this case, it is the radically progressive LGBTQ group Truth Wins Out and their mentally ill followers. While Chelette plans on challenging Apple on their decision when it comes to Apple siding with Christian Conversive values or wicked progressive left values they seem to do the latter.
Censorship of a Christian worldview and beliefs whether in the news media, on social media, or in the newspapers is no longer heading turning to most true believers today. In many ways, it is expected and waited upon by many, counted as the cost of standing for truth in a world that has no need nor want for truth. Right is right even when nobody else in the world is doing it and wrong is still wrong even everyone is doing it.
While Apple may be able to censor Christian apps under the guise of “promoting hate,” it is Apple, and the radical LGBTQ groups like Truth Wins Out that are truly promoting hate. As Christians, we need to speak the truth about the sinful dangers of the LGBTQ lifestyle. We need to preach the hope, the change, the rebirth, and a new life found through repentance of sin and trusting in Jesus Christ as Savior. That can’t be censored by Apple,Truth Wins Out, any person or group.
[San Antonio Express News] Police in Seguin arrested an armed man Sunday morning who was
Just before 7 a.m., officers responded to the 2400 block of W. Kingsbury St. in reference to a man carrying what was believed to be a handgun.
An off-duty Seguin police officer was first at the scene and observed “an oddly dressed male wearing tactical style clothing, a surgical face shield” and carrying a loaded firearm with extra ammunition, according to police.
Police say the man, identified as 33-year-old Tony Albert, was allegedly en route to an unidentified church to “fulfill what he called a prophecy.”
Albert was arrested and transported to Guadalupe County Jail, where he was booked on a $100,000 bond for possession of marijuana and possession of a firearm.
Seguin authorities say a citizen initially called police.
Albert has a lengthy criminal history, public records show. He’s been arrested at least six times in Harris County on various charges dating back to 2009, when he was 24.
Albert was convicted in four of those cases for: driving while intoxicated; possession of marijuana under two ounces; disarming a police officer and, most recently, assault of a family member causing bodily injury.
In one court filing, Albert wrote that he is associated with Messianic Judaism, a modern religious movement that combines Christianity with elements of Judaism, and the First Church of Cannabis, a religious organization that maintains marijuana is a healing plant.
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[Editor’s Note: This article was written by Claudia Torres and Emilie Eaton and first published at the San Antonio
First, let me start by striving for factual accuracy. The person you see in this video is not “transgender.” No one has ever been “transgender” in the history of the world, because gender doesn’t transition on account of it being biological. And because biology doesn’t change because you wear pink, nip and tuck, or cut and sever, being “trans” isn’t a thing.
Secondly, I feel sorry for the clerk.
He is being towered over by a considerably larger, clearly deranged, intentionally grotesque, and angry man who looks like he wants the clerk to ‘rub the lotion on its skin.’
The man who – ironically enough – has too much testosterone which makes him Hulk-like angry, was acting characteristically male in every way. He was raising his (deep) voice, acting aggressively, kicking objects and acting violently, and threatening the clerk with physical harm. Of course, none of these things are any more feminine than the man’s appearance, which was not feminine at all.
What most offends “transgender” people, when they are “misgendered,” is that it awakens them from their daydreams and their lifetime leisurely stroll through the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Señor Tranny probably looked at himself in the rearview, puckered his lips to dark cherry lip balm, and blew a kiss to himself before sashaying into the Gamestop only to receive the rude awakening of being called “sir.” I’ve dealt with trannies enough doing street evangelism to know that they’re actually under the very real delusion that they are the opposite sex. And no matter how poorly is their gender disguise, they are convinced that everyone except them is fooled by their cross-dressing. When you correctly ‘gender’ them, they lose it.
The clerk in the video, of course, didn’t think that the angry Hulk tranny was a woman, but he was willing to lie. Unfortunately, this was your standard tranny and not your Miss Universe level tranny, and so the clerk’s subconscious couldn’t stop saying “sir” (hilarious).
No. No, I’m not going to call you ma’am, Miss, or a feminine pronoun. I’m not going to call you that because that’s a lie. I’m also not going to call you that because it’s not helpful to you personally because you need to be told that you’re behaving deplorably and are making a giant donkey of yourself.
The tranny’s sin here is that God did not make him
What if I told you that what you witnessed in the When Trannies Attack video (above) that the sin displayed is not exponentially different from Beth Moore, Jackie Hill Perry, Jory Micah, Christine Caine, Joyce Meyer, or Nadia Bolz-Weber when they stand behind the pulpit to preach?
Did God tell the testosterone-drenched cross-dresser to act like a woman? No.
Did God tell these female preachers to act like men? No.
I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. – 1 Timothy 2:12
The only real difference between the gender-bending that you see in this video and that which you see by women preaching is that one occurred in a GameStop and the other occurs in (ostensibly) the Lord’s House. Which one do you think is more blasphemous?
The authoritative exposition of Scripture (known as preaching) is a role for men (regardless the audience), as well as the role of pastor.
If anyone aspires to the office of pastor, he desires a noble task. Therefore an elder must be above reproach, the husband of one wife
…. 1 Timothy 3:1-2
A woman cannot be a man, and a man cannot be a woman. Likewise, a woman cannot be a pastor and a pastor cannot be a woman.
“Call me pastor.”
How ’bout no. We’ve got other words for that like
One of the manliest things a man can do is preach. One of the manliest things a woman can do is preach. But she shouldn’t. To take upon herself that role is to bend gender. It’s uncivilized, unladylike, unChristian, and ungodly.
And, in case you haven’t noticed, lady pastors pull off “preaching” about as well as this tranny pulled off “woman.”
Angels We Have Heard on High is a classic Christmas Hymn that tells the story, as recounted in Luke 2, of the chorus of angels that appeared in the region of Bethlehem to announce Christ’s birth and proclaim God’s glory. Let it Go is the most popular song from the hit Disney animated film Frozen. It tells the story of a queen with repressed magic powers who accidentally freezes her whole kingdom, abdicates her royal responsibilities, flees to the mountains, and proclaims her freedom from the social fears which have been holding her back since she accidentally almost killed her little sister with an ice blast. Both of these songs were combined in a medley last week at The Summit Church’s Christmas program. Summit is pastored by JD Greear, the President of the Southern Baptist Convention. Last Sunday, Summit Church cancelled Lord’s Day church services at each of its nine campuses for Christmas break.
The President of the Southern Baptist Convention, the man who is responsible for appointing the committee which is ultimately responsible for nominating the trustees for the International Mission Board, the North American Mission Board, and each of the SBC’s six seminaries, had his church worship team mix a Disney song in with a Christmas song about angels and followed it up with cancelling church. If that doesn’t tell you that the SBC is in trouble, I don’t know what will. Anyone in disbelief about this turn of events can watch the video embedded below.
Anyone who watches the whole video may notice other peculiar things. For the purposes of this article, I will offer no commentary on the rap dancers, singers with torn jeans, and the performer wearing different colored neon shoes. I suggest anyone who calls The Summit home let it to go and find a new church.
“This, then, is the proposal. In order to win the world, the Lord Jesus must conform himself, his people, and his Word to the world. I will not dwell any longer on so loathsome a proposal.” Charles Spurgeon
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It’s not actually a church. Or a religion. At least, not yet
Near the town of Lewiston, Maine there is a recovery coach, Jesse Harvey aka “Narcan Jesus” who has become the face of the provocatively named Church of Safe Injection. Jesse himself is a recovering addict from alcohol, opioids, and methamphetamine, and went through the Godless “higher power” centered 12-step program a few years ago.
Harvey, age 26 started this so-called “church” with the purpose of helping those who are addicted to drugs as an alternative to faith-based addiction recovery programs. He is currently running his “church” of Safe Injection out of the back of his car near the Lewiston’s Kennedy Park one night a week. The “Narcan Jesus,” as Jesse is referred to by many in the community, is focused on providing the distribution of clean needles and Narcan to addicts. Of course, the “church” of Safe Injection does not provide faith-based teaching. Without the vital teaching and focus on Christ as our Redeemer and Savior none of these self-centered good deeds will have any true meaningful impact on those “Narcan Jesus” and his followers are trying to help.
Sadly, others have taken up Harvey’s idea, establishing 18 branches of the so-called “church” across eight states. Each chapter must abide by the organization’s only three rules: Congregations are required to welcome people of all faiths, atheists included; to serve all marginalized people; and, most importantly, to support harm reduction, which involves keeping drug users safe and healthy, instead of focusing solely on getting them into addiction treatment.
Note rule number three and the contradiction that it entails. While rules number one and two are what any faith-based recovery program would offer and not problematic, it is rule number three that’s worrying. What is troublesome with rule number three is how the “church” of Safe Injection defines “keeping drug users safe and healthy.” It would seem that by the example of Jesse’s own actions this definition includes the continued use of drugs by the evident distribution of clean needles and Narcan. How is this keeping drug users “safe and healthy”? In actuality, this is quite counterproductive and is actually going against their own rules. You cannot keep someone “safe and healthy” by allowing them to continue in their abusive behavior.
While Jesse’s and his followers ideas may come from good intentions, a good intention will not keep people from the gates of hell. Without the preaching of the Gospel and the rebirth found through a relationship in Christ, this good intention is an eternal waste. It is akin to going to the doctor to get treated for cancer, and he sends you home with painkillers and tells you that you will be fine. You may feel fine for a time, but you will still die of cancer. Just like Jesse’s “Church of Safe Injection” may seem to provide a surface cure, death is still calling and without Christ that death leads to an eternity in hell.
Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., a stalwart evangelical defender of President Donald Trump, says in a new interview that it is wrong to base U.S. policy on the teachings of Jesus Christ.
“I almost laugh out loud when I hear Democrats saying things like, ‘Jesus said suffer the little children to come unto me’ and try to use that as the reason we should open up our borders,” the 56-year-old son of Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell said in a Washington Postinterviewpublished Jan. 1.
“It’s such a distortion of the teachings of Jesus to say that what he taught us to do personally — to love our neighbors as ourselves, help the poor — can somehow be imputed on a nation,” Falwell said.
Falwell, who in 2007 took over the presidency of the Lynchburg, Virginia, university founded by his late father, said that Jesus never tried to tell Caesar how to run the Roman Empire.
“It’s a distortion of the teaching of Christ to say Jesus taught love and forgiveness and therefore the United States as a nation should be loving and forgiving, and just hand over everything we have to every other part of the world,” Falwell Jr. said. “That’s not what Jesus taught. You almost have to believe that this is a theocracy to think that way, to think that public policy should be dictated by the teachings of Jesus.”
His father’s Moral Majority, a political organization associated with the Christian right and Republican Party, mobilized evangelical voters in 1980 to deny a second term to President Jimmy Carter, a lifelong Baptist whose candidacy and election introduced the term “born again” to many Americans unfamiliar with teachings of evangelical Protestantism.
Falwell Sr.’s Thomas Road Baptist Church – long affiliated with the Missouri-based Baptist Bible Fellowship and now led by his son Jonathan – dually aligned with the Southern Baptist Convention in 1996. Falwell Sr. attributed the move to a “theological renaissance” in the nation’s second-largest faith group that began in 1979.
Over the next two decades the movement more commonly called the conservative resurgence (or fundamentalist takeover) shifted the SBC from a centrist position to identification with the Religious Right. It spawned counter movements including the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, formed in 1991 to defend discarded doctrines such as local-church autonomy and the separation of church and state.
Today’s new generation of SBC leaders has sought distance from the GOP, emphasizing moral concerns such as immigration and racism alongside issues like abortion and homosexuality long galvanizing the Religious Right, sometimes at their own peril.
Russell Moore, head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, drew defunding threats and calls for his firing for pushing too hard in his criticism of evangelical enablers of candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Prominent Southern Baptists like Moore’s predecessor Richard Land, former SBC President Jack Graham and First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress, meanwhile, are among a cadre of mostly Pentecostal and prosperity gospel preachers enjoying access to the White House as Trump’s unofficial evangelical advisory team.
Falwell Jr., who claimed in 2016 that he turned down the job of Trump’s Secretary of Education, said in the Post interview that he holds a “two kingdom” view of the interaction between church and state.
“There’s the earthly kingdom and the heavenly kingdom,” he said. “In the heavenly kingdom the responsibility is to treat others as you’d like to be treated. In the earthly kingdom, the responsibility is to choose leaders who will do what’s best for your country.”
A poor person never gave anyone a job.
“Think about it,” Falwell continued. “Why have Americans been able to do more to help people in need around the world than any other country in history? It’s because of free enterprise, freedom, ingenuity, entrepreneurism and wealth. A poor person never gave anyone a job. A poor person never gave anybody charity, not of any real volume. It’s just common sense to me.”
The “two kingdoms” doctrine originates in Roman Catholic teaching articulated in St. Augustine’s classic City of God, a philosophical treatise vindicating Christianity in response to the sack of Rome by pagan barbarians in 410 CE.
Reformer Martin Luther further developed the idea that God rules the world in two “kingdoms” – spiritual and earthly – represented by church and state.
John Calvin — a 16th century theologian whose views on salvation have been reborn in recent decades in evangelical circles including the Southern Baptist Convention in the emergence of a network of “young, restless and Reformed” ministers seeking to engage historical church doctrines with modern culture – distinguished between “earthly” and “heavenly” things in his seminal work of systematic theology, Institutes of the Christian Religion, first published in Latin in 1536.
In the heavenly kingdom the responsibility is to treat others as you’d like to be treated. In the earthly kingdom, the responsibility is to choose leaders who will do what’s best for your country.
Alan Cross, a Southern Baptist minister in Montgomery, Alabama, warned that Falwell’s two kingdoms theology is the “same approach German Lutherans took as Hitler rose to power.”
[Editor’s Note: This article was written by Bob Allen and originally published at Baptist News]
[Life News] Planned Parenthood is suing to force Idaho to allow nurses and midwives to abort unborn babies.
The abortion giant and Legal Voice filed the lawsuit Dec. 14, challenging a state law that requires that abortions be performed by doctors, the Post Falls Press reports.
Idaho is not unusual. Currently, 42 states require that a licensed physician perform abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Abortion activists even acknowledged that these laws were passed to protect women’s health.
However, they now claim that the Idaho law is unconstitutional because it unnecessarily restricts women’s access to abortion. Citing research by pro-abortion activists, their lawsuit argues that nurse practitioners, nurse midwives and physician assistants can “safely and effectively” perform abortions, according to the report.
The lawsuit is a new strategy of the abortion industry, which is hurting for doctors willing to abort unborn babies. There are similar lawsuits challenging laws in Maine and Montana.
Here’s more from the report:
Under the current law, women often have to travel long distances within a narrow window of time in order to receive an abortion, [Kim Clark, a senior attorney with Legal Voice] and others behind the lawsuit say.
There are five abortion-providing facilities in Idaho, including three Planned Parenthood clinics in Twin Falls, Boise and Meridian. A shortage of physicians in Idaho, particularly in rural areas, exacerbates accessibility-related challenges, the lawsuit’s plaintiffs say.
If the statute were changed to let advanced practice clinicians perform abortions, the lawsuit’s plaintiffs say, existing clinics could offer abortion services more days a week, with the potential for additional new clinics to open. Ninety-five percent of Idaho counties do not have a clinic that provides abortions, with 68 percent of Idaho women living in those counties, according to data from 2014.
In 2015, California passed a law allowing non-doctors to abort unborn babies. The new law has put countless women and their unborn babies in jeopardy. One study found that abortions done by non-physicians were twice as likely to have complications as those done by licensed physicians.
This new matter is a way the abortion industry hopes to prop up its life-destroying business. Abortion rates are dropping and abortion clinics have been closing partly because fewer doctors are willing to abort unborn babies.
[Editor’s Note: This article was written by Micaiah Bilger and originally published at Life News]
If anyone preaches, let him preach as one who speaks oracles of God…1 Peter 4:11
There was a time when pastors stood upon pulpits as the congregation peered up at him behind the Sacred Desk. He stood there because that is from where he lifted up his voice in exultation of God and exposition of God’s Word. People actually gathered by the hundreds, if not thousands, to watch a man stand still and preach from the Bible for an hour or more. Today, love for the Bible among professing Christians has waxed so cold that pastors are finding new and exciting side-show acts to keep luke-warm crowds of apathetic people marginally engaged.
One such pastor, eager to make a show of himself and entertain his church at years-end – a Sunday which isn’t regularly attended by so many nominal Christians (the president of the SBC canceled services last Sunday) – decided to do an acrobatic stunt on a trampoline.
It did not go well.
Matthew K. Thompson (46), is the pastor of Jubilee Church in New England. The church is one of the largest churches in the area, with attendance regularly over one thousand. Sunday, instead of preaching God’s Word like a respectable exegete, he tried a stunt on a mini-trampoline and face-planted in front of the entire church.
You can watch the video below.
The prayer shawl, above, apparently couldn’t work miracles.
Thompson then blaphemed God’s name to Fox News, saying, “It’s funny. I remember thinking to myself, O. M. G. and I land like right on my head…maybe like 800 people there. They just gasp and I’m just laying on the floor.”
The reason for the trampoline, according to Thompson, was designed to teach the congregation a lesson that with God’s help you can “get over it.”
Apparently, the simple concept of overcoming can’t be explained to an audience of entertainment-starved, mostly unregenerate spiritual three-year-olds without a trampoline.
Oddly enough, this news story is not a repeat from 2014 when another pastor similarly wiped out on a trampoline.
Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last
days he has spoken to us by his Son…Hebrews 1:1-2
No one can deny that the Southern Baptist Convention is drifting. Once opposed to claims of prophecy outside the Bible – commonly claimed by cults like Roman Catholicism, Mormonism, Seventh Day Adventism and Montanism – some have suggested that SBC stands for slowly becoming charismatic. Southern Baptist president, JD Greear, recently did a video for The Social Gospel Coalition in which he stated an open-but-cautious view to prophecies outside the Bible.
Baptists, at one time, were known as People of the Book and defended the Sufficiency of Scripture. The Sufficiency of Scripture is undergirded by Cessationism, the orthodox and Biblical position that the Apostolic Sign Gifts – like the gift of miracles or prophecy – have ceased with the Apostles. This belief is taken from 2 Corinthians 12:12, which states that these types of First Century phenomenon were meant to designate Apostleship. Without Apostles, the Christian Church has uniformly held to a belief in Cessationism since the second century.
The Montanists were a group of heretics who were denounced by the early church for claiming that God continues to speak outside of Scripture. The belief of God speaking directly to people (as opposed to the Spirit leading us through Scripture) was altogether absent from church history between the time of the excommunication of the Montanists and the revival of Montanism in 1906 at Azusa Street. During the 20th Century, Baptists were at the forefront of opposing the notion of extra-Biblical prophecy. As the Southern Baptist publishing house, Lifeway Christian
JD Greear speaks about his open-but-cautious view below.
Greear claims in the video that God can speak in an audible voice should he want to. While it may seem wise to “not put God in a box” (by the way, the Ark of the Covenant demonstrates that God doesn’t mind putting himself in a box) or to claim that an omnipotent God can’t do something, God can’t do that which is against his own Word or something contrary to his own nature (see Titus 1:2 as an example). And, God has been very clear (see Hebrews 1:1-2 above) that how he now speaks to us has been relegated to
The danger of the open-but-cautious approach is that it leaves open the Charismatic Window. This is the means by which most false teachings today enter the church.
If you want to know how dangerous Greear’s view is on this issue, consider the lauding it received by Charisma News. This publication promotes material from the New Apostolic Reformation, Bethel Church and Bill Johnson, Benny Hinn, and televangelist convicted felon, doomsday prophet and accused rapist, Jim Bakker. It is the worst of the worst promoter of the worst of the worst charismatic false prophets. And it loved JD Greear’s video.
In the article from Charisma News, it ask’s whether this is “a turning point for the Southern Baptist Convention.”
And the answer is no. The turning point is when Lifeway indiscriminately began to pump the SBC with charismatic resources more than a decade ago. It is just now bearing fruit.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. – John 1:1
Jesus is the Word – or logos – of God. While John the Disciple called Jesus the Word as a part of his refutation of the Gnostics and their concept of the logos, there is a sense in which Jesus embodied and
Also, and this may come as a shock to you, but you aren’t the Word of God. The only person who may think such a lofty title should be applied to them would be those who hold to Little God Theology, the belief that humans are lesser deities who are capable (like God) of decreeing and declaring things into existence.
Todd White, the popular charismatic preacher with Predator dreads (who runs away from discerning housewives), recently took to social media to encourage people not to read the Bible through in 2019.
That’s right. He’s encouraging people not to read the Bible through in 2019 unless they become the Bible.
White put the Bible on his head and encouraged people to become the Word of God.
White would be better off – as well as those who follow him – if he took the Bible off of his head and read from it. Discipleship doesn’t happen by osmosis.
He wrote…
In John 1:14, cited by White, John was (again) dealing with Christ and using logos as a double entendre to provoke the Gnostics.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. – John 1:14
We do not have to “become flesh” because we already are flesh. Jesus, who is God and who was Spirit, had to take on flesh in the incarnation. Ironically, this verse doesn’t (A) apply to anyone but Jesus and (B) doesn’t speak of Jesus becoming Word but Jesus becoming flesh.
[Reformation Charlotte] The well-known lady preacher and popular bible-study author, Beth Moore, makes an astonishing declaration–that spending time in God’s Word is not the same thing as spending time with God.
I say “astonishing” acerbically, chiefly because Beth Moore, who spends most of her free time admonishing innocent men to get on their knees to apologize on behalf of other men for mistreating women while holding hands with Marxists, is actually quite known for bellowing out ludicrous assertions about the Scriptures and her (lack of) knowledge about them.
Most recently, she declares in a tweet:
Well, in her world, spending time with God consists of fanciful dreams of being lifted up in the air while being told by God that He’s going to unite all sectors of Christendom, or strange moments of meeting a woman at a random bus stop just to give her a handful of cash because, you know, God told her to go there and stuff.
Of course spending time in Scripture is the same thing as spending time with God. You cannot know God any other way. It’s how he speaks to us (Hebrews 1:1). Yes, you can spend time with Him in prayer as well, and you can spend time with Him in worship. But what she’s saying is essentially the same thing as saying that listening to your parents speak to you is not the same thing as spending time with them. The Scriptures are God’s full and complete revelation to us. It informs all matters of our faith in Him, including our prayer and worship.
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”Joshua 1:8-9
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[Editors’ Note: I might also add – in regards to “spending time in the Bible doesn’t mean growing in faith” – the words Paul to the Romans in the tenth chapter of his epistle, “So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”]
The Gospel is designed to unify. Cultural Marxism is designed to cause division. When Cultural Marxism is propagated in the name of the Gospel, it gets division rather than unity.
Endlessly signaling his Social Justice virtue, Al Mohler commissioned a taskforce at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to research the slave-holding history of the founders of that institution, which has already been researched and written about extensively and repented for repeatedly.
We wrote about that White Guilt-laden report in our article, Virtue Signaling Southern Baptists Apologize for Slavery for the 1,394th Time.
With the Southern Baptist Convention being in record-breaking decline, one might think SBC seminaries would be busy focusing on teaching evangelism and focusing on baptism figures. Instead, they’re implementing taskforces to study 160-year-old sins that have been endlessly repented of.
Make no mistake about it and have no misconceptions. There is no major momentary tragedy or crisis that leads Al Mohler and so many other Social Justice liberals in evangelicalism to focus so heavily on racialism. They are just children of their age and influenced more by the current
No such luck. Instead, they’re demanding reparations.
Wendell Griffen, a Baptist pastor and Arkansas judge wrote at Baptist News Global:
We should also not ignore or excuse the seminary’s refusal to commit to
engage in reparations and restitution for more than 150 years of systemic racial injustice practiced, preached and taught under the guise of preparing people for careers in pastoral ministry, religious education, missions and theological study as followers of Jesus…Rather than commend Mohler and the authors of the study, we should remind them what John the Baptist said about the need to “bear fruits worthy of repentance” (Luke 3:8).
While Mohler, Dever, Duncan, Moore and the Evangelical Intelligentsia are telling us that Social Justice is a “Gospel issue,” it seems that the only people really forsaking the Good News of the New Covenant are those insisting upon reparations.
You see, the New Covenant under which the Gospel provides the means of our salvation by faith – also known as the Covenant of Grace – tells us that one of the results of Christ’s work is that children will no longer be held accountable for the sins of their father.
29 In those days they shall no longer say: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’ 30 But
everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. – Jeremiah 31:29-30
There are words for those who demand a monetary payment in order to grant forgiveness for the sins of one’s father…robbers, thieves, and immoral swindlers, greedy for filthy lucre, and unforgiven themselves (Matthew 6:15).
The lesson from Mohler’s blunder is that such overtures won’t earn applause from the intended audience, but only from the peanut gallery who are already convinced he walks on water. What Mohler’s white-guilt taskforce teaches us is that you shouldn’t negotiate with terrorists.
Sooner or later, we will have a discussion about the sin of black Christians who refuse to forgive. When will someone look at the black Christian of slave ancestry and tell them that to not forgive, when forgiveness is asked, is a sin just as real as slavery?
Refusing to forgive – and holding forgiveness ransom in exchange for extortionary payment – is a gross sin, and God hates it. It is, for lack of a better term, akin to simony.
Griffen continued:
Repentance will require the seminary’s leaders and other stakeholders to do much more than admit a history of racism, white supremacy and white religious nationalism. SBTS must – in obedience to what John the Baptist said as well as the example of the tax collector from Jericho named Zachaeus who Jesus confronted (Luke 19:5-9) – pledge to give up the ill-gotten wealth it gained and now enjoys in part because of that wicked history. It is telling that Mohler hasn’t shown any sign that he even considered doing that, let alone that he urged the seminary’s trustees to do it.
Of course, to be comparable to the story of Zachaeus, the Biblical narrative would have had to included an account of Zachaeus’ great-great grandchildren re-paying the debt of their distant relative. Fining someone for what their distant relatives have done and distributing that wealth to people who weren’t personally harmed is hardly “justice.” In fact, it is theft.
Throughout his article, Griffen claims that black people today suffer as a consequence of the actions of SBTS slave-holding founders. Griffen, it should be noted, he is a lawyer, judge, and of a higher socio-economic status than 99% of SBTS students whose tuitions would have to cover the reparations given to Griffen or other black evangelicals as a part of Mohler’s “repentance.”
Ultimately, the reason Christians should be against reparations is the same reason they should be against slavery, and that is because theft is wrong. It is wrong to steal from a man for the same reason it’s wrong to steal a man. And, ultimately, wrong is wrong.
“Kangaroo courts” are sham legal proceedings which are set-up in order to give the impression of a fair process. In fact, they offer no impartial justice as the verdict, invariably to the detriment of the accused, and is decided in advance. Such is the sham investigation ordered by Southwest Baptist University to look into the firing of a good professor just because he had concerns that several professors (including the school’s dean) were heretics.
As we wrote in Southwest Baptist University Fires Prof for Objecting to Heresy, SBU president, Eric Turner, fired professor Clint Bass after it was discovered that Missouri Baptist Convention officials asked Bass to investigate whether other professors – led by
According to Bass (and according to the facts and evidence, including direct quotations and audio) Reeves and at least one other professor, Zach Manis, were guilty of teaching annihilationism and inclusivism. Annihilationism teaches that hell is not eternal and inclusivism teaches that there are ways to Heaven without faith in Jesus.
After reviewing the evidence, there is ZERO DOUBT – none, zip, zilch, nada – that Bass’ accusations are factually accurate. However, President Eric Turner asked to see his personal diary in which he made his notes and then fired him immediately without further investigating his claims or speaking to other parties. Turner blamed Bass for “undermining the institution’s integrity.”
In response, more than a thousand people signed a petition to rehire Bass. There was much public outrage and Baptists could not undertand how the concerned professor – and not the heretic – was fired.
In response to that outrage, it was recently announced that SBU had chosen David Dockery to investigate the matter. Dockery is the president of Trinity International University and former president of Union University. He is also a theological ecumenist who is well-known for his total toleration of aberrant doctrinal beliefs and his ecumenism – the blended partnership between people of divergent faiths.
In a 2014 article first published by Pulpit & Pen and later Worldview Weekend, Ken Fryer wrote of Dockery’s ecumenism in the post Hickory, Dickory, Dockery: Ecumenism in the SBC.
Will someone who signed the Manhattan Declaration – which calls Roman Catholics fellow Christians – really call Reeves’ and Manis’ purgatorial concepts unorthodox? He’s already on record calling Catholics orthodox?
SBU tainted the investigation by calling it a “peer assessment committee.” Understand this: Bass has accused his peers of heresy, and SBU thought it appropriate to let his peers investigate the accusation. In reality, SBU trustees and Missouri Baptist Convention trustees should have investigated the matter personally. When the “peer assessment committee” finds Reeves and Manis innocent of heresy in spite of the evidence against them, and paints Bass as a schismatic, the trustees will simply pass the buck to the committee and tell people to take it up with them. We have gone from “trust the trustees” to “trust the sham committee the trustees are trusting.”
In the scenario contrived by SBU, everyone will be off the hook except for professor Clint Bass. President Turner and the trustees will simply point to the committee’s decision (the outcome of which is already decided).
The Baptist Press article about this reports a few interesting details. The first are “enthusiastic affirmations” of the Southern Baptist Faith & Message by the inclusivist and annihilationist heretics with zero explanation as to what their recorded words meant. Of course, there is no defense for their words, so none was provided.
In terms of discernment, one might wonder how these men have so vehemently denied their previous positions as recorded on audio. One might even be convinced that their perceived sincerity and assertiveness in their denials speaks to their truthfulness. But false teaches lie. They deceive. They “sneak in unawares” in “sheep’s clothing” and “spy out” how to destroy. It’s doubtful that Dockery will grasp that concept.
Furthermore, we should remember the words of Westminster Philadelphia founder, J. Gresham Machen:
[Subversive liberals] seek a place in the ministry that they may teach what is directly contrary to the Confession of Faith to which they subscribe. For that course of
action various excuses are made…if a man desires to combat the message instead of propagating it, he has no right, no matter how false the message may be to, to gain a vantage ground for combating it by making a declaration of his faith which – be it plainly spoke – is not true.
Machen warned in Christianity vs Liberalism that liberal professors would flat-out lie about their holding to the very Confession they sought to undermine. Unable to find employment anywhere else, they take employment in the institutions they seek to weaken and teach contrary to the Confession of faith.
Sound familiar? It’s what all the liberals did during the Conservative Resurgence and it’s what is happening at SBU right now. While literally calling themselves annihilationists (see links above for the evidence), teaching a purgatorial view of the afterlife, and teaching
Their careers are riding on it, so of course they affirm it. They have to in order to keep their job.
Missouri Baptists, this is a sham. Do not fall for this process. It is a kangaroo court and its outcome is already predecided.
The President of the United States is feuding with the Bishop of Rome, and Trump just had a ‘drop the mic’ moment with the pontiff.
On one side of this dispute is Donald J. Trump, who took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. On the other side is Pope Francis, a Argentinian Jesuit who was thoroughly indoctrinated by South American liberation theologians. Trump wants to protect America, and the Pope wants to unite the world globally under the banner of Rome.
The men with two different missions locked horns yesterday as Trump gave a scathing rebuke of Pope Francis’ constant chastisement of United States immigration policy, which is among the most charitable in the world. The U.S. takes in more than 1.2 million immigrants a year, which is among
In spite of American generosity, Pope Francis has been constantly dinging Trump in speeches across the world, primarily centered on Trump’s insistence to do his job by enforcing already-existent immigration law and building a border wall that was already approved by Congress.
On Thursday, Donald Trump had enough of the Pope’s undermining of American
When they say the wall’s immoral, well then you got to do something about the
Vatican, because the Vatican has the biggest wall of them all.
Trump continued, “Look at all of the countries that have walls, and they work 100 percent. It’s never going to change. A wall is a wall.
This isn’t the first time the two figures have tangled over the issue of American sovereignty versus globalism. In 2016, Pope Francis said that building “walls rather than bridges” wasn’t Christian. Trump responded by saying that if the Vatican walls were scaled by ISIS the Pope would be thankful he were president.
President Trump is factually correct. The Vatican has one of the most impressive border walls in the world.
The walls were built in the 9th century, commissioned by Pope Leo IV, ostensibly to protect the Vatican from people intent on plundering the city. Other Popes increased the height of the walls in the 14th and 15th century and mutltiple times throughout its history the Vatican has also closed the gates. In other words, the Vatican not only protected its borders from unlawful entry, it has closed the ports of lawful entry – something not even proposed by President Trump.
The Pope has thus far ignored Trump’s recent comments. He is in the Vatican, behind its walls, currently dealing with the massive Roman Catholic sex abuse scandals throughout the world.
In the meantime, President Trump should point out that the Pope isn’t the only religious leader with a border wall. Christ Jesus also has one in Heaven.
[The Holy City] had a great, high wall, with twelve gates…Revelation 21:10
In the name of preserving their “religious freedom,” two prominent evangelical groups have adopted rules capitulating on the issue of sodomy in order to not face possible negative consequences in the future. Agreeing not to act on their convictions toward the LGBTQ, the organizations hope to be allowed to still have their convictions quietly.
One wonders what the point of religious freedom is when you surrender your liberty of
Acting quietly, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) have formally endorsed principles that would add sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) to federal nondiscrimination law. One of these groups, the NAE, is heavily endorsed by Russell Moore and partners with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Shirley Mullen, the president of Houghton College and a board member of both the CCCU and NAE, said, “As Christian higher educators, we are increasingly persuaded that the most viable political strategy is for comprehensive religious freedom protections to be combined with explicit support for basic human rights for members of the LGBT community.”
Political strategy.
And all of God’s people said…barf.
Of course, neither the CCCU nor the NAE
World Mag obtained the document agreed upon by the two organizations entitled, Fairness for All Motion. The document repudiates “unjust discrimination” towards those practicing sexual deviancy.
What is “unjust discrimination,” you might ask? Surely, that’s a loaded term, especially in a document designed to be waved like a white flag of surrender. The document goes on to explain, “These rights include basic legal and human rights related to housing, credit, jury duty
This means that Christian homeowners would have to rent homes to Sodomites and Christian-owned businesses could not decline to hire a sodomite or crossdressser on the grounds that they’re sinful or gross. So in the name of “religious liberty,” the CCCU and NAE are surrendering their religious liberty to discriminate (yes, discriminating for religious reasons is a First Amendment right) wholesale.
With liberty like that, who needs slavery?
The document is candid about its purpose. It’s trading LGBT inclusion for religious liberty like 30 pieces of silver. The document says:
This proposed legislation seeks to secure basic human rights for the LGBT community at the national level in exchange for strong and perpetual protections for religious freedom.
Judas Priests, they are.
The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) is highly endorsed by Russell Moore and partners with the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.
You can see Russell Moore’s endorsement of NAE here and view it below.
Moore writes, “When the NAE speaks, it is with careful theological reflection and with a tone that never compromises the gospel of Christ or the mission of the church. As the Body of Christ engages often complex questions facing civil society, it is a blessing to have a strong, unifying, biblically-anchored ally in the National Association of Evangelicals.”
The Fairness for All Motion is the epitome of everything wrong with today’s spineless, feckless, traitorous evangelicals. Born without courage and void of intestinal fortitude, these evanjellyfish have just offered to surrender our conscience for the right to have one.
They have surrendered their right to act upon their conviction for the right to simply state their conviction. Ultimately, that’s really no religious freedom at all.
For why we should never surrender our convictions in the name of “religious liberty,” listen to JD Hall’s sermon at the 2015 Reformation Montana Conference below. In the sermon, he spoke of Russell Moore and the ERLC’s allies who would ultimately give up their convictions in the name of liberty.
Listen here.
If you don’t think the American Evangelical Intelligentsia would sell their birthright for a bit of peace and prosperity, you don’t know them. They are sniveling, weak, effeminate men without spinal columns, courage, or guts. They are shells of humanity, with the good stuff taken out and replaced with cream puffery.
When Pulpit & Pen discovered that the National Association of Evangelicals had secretly embraced an expansion of gay rights in exchange for promises of religious liberty, I thought I couldn’t see much worse. And then I saw the information I’m about to give to you and I saw that, as always, it could get much, much worse.
Let me give you a disclaimer. Of all my years following Russell Moore, the ERLC, and the progressive-liberal intellectuals who are subversively driving evangelicalism to the hard-left, this might be the worst thing I have seen to date. And given my knowledge of the ERLC and their chicanery, that’s saying something.
Coming across my Google alerts, I saw an article by Richard Ostling which highlighted what I feel to be the most over-looked news story of 2018. On November 29, a group of evangelicals led by the SBC’s Russell Moore and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) president, Leith Anderson, joined with a group of non-Christians and cultists in the name of
As Ostling points out in his article, the typical mainstream denomination leftists you would expect to lead the way in such ecumenical enterprises haven’t even signed onto the document yet. But Russell Moore and the NAE are leading the way.
Ostling points out that the document takes no stance on important ethical issues:
The charter has won a notably varied list of initial endorsers because it purposely avoids taking stands on the “sometimes bitter debates” over how to apply these principles, in particular clashes between religious traditionalists and the LGBTQ community. Think Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado. Says the charter, “although it is not always possible to uphold both non-discrimination and religious liberty claims in particular cases, both claims should be taken seriously, and both sides should seek common ground.”
What the “American Charter on Freedom of Religion and Conscience” does is – like the NAE document reported on earlier today – surrender our rights to act according to our religion for the concession to merely ideologically hold to our religion. It’s nothing short of treasonous.
The document basically says, “Make us do anything you want, as long as you let us believe what we want.”
The five-thousand-word document is available via pdf here.
The goal of the document, according to its introduction, is everything you would expect a feckless, cowering, ecumenical claptrap would be:
Their aim is to restore civility to public discourse on religion and freedom of religion and conscience in America; explore the meaning and value of freedom of religion and conscience as a foundation of American democracy and national and global prosperity; and build a multi-faith, non-partisan coalition working to affirm freedom of religion and conscience as a vital safeguard for people of all faiths and none.
The document’s goal is to promote a form of globalism by gutting America of its theological underpinnings, minimizing its Christian heritage and over-emphasizing its committment to pluralism. The document reads:
In a world of strong and undeniable diversity, all imposed absolutisms, coercive universalisms, and movements of religious and secular ideological cleansing are the open enemies of freedom, equality, and justice for all.
The document seems to emphasize secularism, and goes well beyond supporting a separation of church and state.
I’ve read this document thoroughly, and let me tell you, there is a 100% reason to assume that the signers of this statement – from everything written therein – would support both gay marriage and abortion in the name of “religious freedom.” Zero doubt…none.
No doubt the Islamists eagerly signed onto the documents because of statements like this one:
We are opposed, therefore, to any
governmental policy that would discriminate against individuals or groups based on their religion. Likewise, we reject rhetoric and actions by governmental leaders and others that demonize individuals or faith communities based on their religion or that hold entire faith groups collectively responsible for the evil deeds of a few.
What’s in view, probably, would be
The document places oppressive religions like Islam in the same category as Christianity and credits them all with equal contributions to the American way of life:
In America, religion helped to spur the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage, and the Civil Rights Movement. We also acknowledge, however, that some have at times used religious claims in support of prejudice, oppression, or violence. But the majority of individuals and communities motivated by faith have provided an overall thrust in America toward grassroots civic renewal and progress. Throughout our history, people of faith have empowered robust charitable giving and caring, essential educational institutions and initiatives, and vigorous political criticism and reform. These acts of kindness, charity, and service have unleashed the power of social innovation and entrepreneurship and have enriched our civic life immeasurably.
The document is clearly the most ecumenical document I’ve ever read, and perhaps has ever been attempted in the history of man. It reads:
It does not attempt to ground unity and civility in enforced conformity concerning the substance of particular religious or secular doctrines. Rather, this covenant secures unity and civility on the basis of voluntary agreement on foundational moral and political principles—principles of human dignity and human rights.
Let me ask you, Christian reader, from where comes our belief in human rights? Is it not in the Imago Dei? Is that not a uniquely Christian doctrine altogether unshared by Buddhists or Sikhs? From where comes the concept of morality? Can you acquire morality without theism? Is there a “secular” foundation of ethics? If there was a coherent foundation of secular ethics, could Christians ever agree as to what was in substance ethical?
Refuse. Utter refuse.
The document has the gall to quote Jefferson, Madison, the Federalist Papers, and Alexis De Tocqueville. Ostensibly, this is to send the message to the undiscerning reader that their statement is just a continuance of some grand American tradition. It is not. This document is a great betrayal of the grand American tradition.
According to Tocqueville, America’s
He continued:
The safeguard of morality is religion, and morality is the best security of law as well as the surest pledge of freedom.
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts-the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
Alexis De Tocqueville
This, of course, is precisely the opposite sentiment of this horrible ecumenical document.
What the American Charter document demonstrates is that for Russell Moore and the Evangelical Intelligentsia, there are no limits on ecumenism. They will hold hands with anyone and everyone in the name of living a little bit longer under an oppressive globalist regime they’re personally helping to empower.
[Editor’s Note: Contributed by JD Hall]
Prominent Southern Baptist Pastor Thabiti Anyabwile, who changed his name from Ron Burns to identify with the Nation of Islam black nationalist movement, demonstrated in a recent tweet, that not even militant atheists such as the late Christopher Hitchens are off limits when it comes to gaining allies for his political agenda.
I did not think I would ever agree with Christopher Hitchens about anything. So I’m stunned to say that this, imo, is a very good, brief (10 min, so clearly not exhaustive) comment in favor of reparations with which I agree…
In the tweet, issued 9:38 PM – 3 Jan 2019 we see the following:
The argument the prominent late atheist makes can be seen in the following video. However, it should be needless to say that since Anyabwile claims a biblical worldview, where does he see common ground in this ideology (2 Corinthians 6:15)?
Editor’s Note: Pulpit & Pen has been warning about the repercussions and the end goal of the “racial reconciliation” movement for several years now (see here). The major proponents of this movement are not after true, biblical reconciliation. They are after entitlements.
Recently it has been decided that Stephens College (aka The Columbia Baptist Female Academy in Columbia), Missouri—the second-oldest women-only college in the country—will begin accepting admissions applications from crossdressers, that is, men who dress like women and try to force others to refer to them as “ma’am.” This will ultimately place the female students in harm’s way of misguided sexual deviants beginning in 2019.
The Columbia Female Academy was established on August 24, 1833. In 1856, David H. Hickman helped secure the college’s charter under the name The Columbia Female Baptist Academy. In the late 19th century, it was renamed Stephens Female College after James L. Stephens endowed the college with $20,000. Until recently, Stephens College held to strong Baptist traditions and teachings, however, it seems that with this latest turn of events that they have strayed from that orthodoxy.
It looks as though Stephens college also has little regard for the safety of their female students by allowing these mentally ill sexual misfits to be integrated into the college. The simple, hard truth of the matter is that “transgenderism” is a mental illness rooted in the sinful desires of a rebellious heart. There is no such thing as “transgender,” you are born either male or female, it’s God’s decision, and you have no say in the matter. One cannot “trans” back and forth between genders because they have emotional or mental inadequacies.
Until recently, those who have suffered from these “trans” issues have rightly so been deemed as mentally and spiritually ill. However, in today’s “PC can’t offend the snowflakes’ world,” people of average mental capacity are forced to affirm these suffering, sin-sickened individuals, as “normal,” when in reality they are not. Whether it is public, the workplace, news outlets, and now in private colleges people of right-mindedness are being forced to have to accept the mentally ill as normal. If one does not accept this premise, then you are the one that is looked upon as being “not right.” It is important to remember that wrong is wrong even if the whole world is doing it and right is right even if no one is doing it.
Stephen’s College has seemed to jump onto the leftist bandwagon of all “trans” are good “trans.” This college, in their attempt to be all-inclusive, has in actuality brought reproach upon themselves and the church and has invited the wrath of God to their doorstep. What Stephen’s College has failed to realize by allowing crossdressers into their midst is that men will exploit their sexual deviancy not only for the purpose of fulfilling homosexual desires but also for their own self fulfilling heterosexual desires.
Stephen’s College should abandon the idea of allowing unrepentant sexual perverts into their school and protect the female students that are attending this college. Sadly, I don’t believe this will be righted until it is too late and someone becomes a victim of a transgender deviate act.
President Donald J. Trump is resisting pressure to sign a Democrat-led House bill that would end the government shut-down but wouldn’t fund the border wall and would instead use tax dollars to fund abortions overseas. Russell Moore has recently joined with 24 other “faith leaders” to urge the president to not cut foreign welfare no matter what.
Moore, who also recently signed a statement in partnership with Muslims, Jews, Catholics, and Cultists claiming the apparent equality of all religions, signed this letter sent to the POTUS, begging him to continue funding “foreign assistance programs.”
Keep in mind that the current government shutdown has had a horrendous affect upon American farmers who rely upon the funding and expected payments by the USDA in exchange for their labor. Keep in mind the current government shutdown has adverse consequences on Americans in many different walks of life, and not just federal employees on holiday. While many feel the shutdown is necessary in order to strengthen our national sovereign borders, the delay of government funding still hurts.
Russell Moore and his associates in the liberal branch of evangelicalism have not gone to bat for you hurting Americans, urging Democrats in the House of Representatives to fund the border wall that was already approved by a lawful act of Congress. No, Moore and his associates have sent an aggressive letter to Donald Trump urging him to not help Americans, but remember to fund the same types of foreign aid that – in the past – have paid for abortions overseas.
According to CBN news, the letter was sent from Russell Moore, Leith Anderson (the president of the National Association of Evangelicals, which just officially agreed to an expansion of LGBTQ “rights”), NAR Apostle Sammy Rodriguez, former SBC President Ronnie Floyd, and others.
Most of the other signers are of the same Soros-funded and Soros-created group, Evangelical Immigration Table, of which Moore, Anderson, and Rodriguez are all members. And now, they’re pressuring the President to end the shutdown, even if it means funding the abortion provision bill by House Democrats.
Addressed to Trump, Pence, and National Security Advisor, John Bolton, the letter cited Jesus’ words from Luke in which Jesus said, “from everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded.”
The letter continued:
Our nation has been richly blessed, and we have the privilege and obligation to share some of those blessings with those in need around the world. We do this through our private missionary, development, and humanitarian programs. But our government also has an indispensable role to play in diplomacy and in poverty-focused assistance programs.
Of course, Moore, Rodriguez, and Anderson all represent powerful, influential, and wealthy evangelical groups that could spend millions of dollars on overseas poverty relief, should they be so inclined. The budget for the ERLC is 4 million dollars from the Cooperative Program of the SBC alone, not to mention the money passed under the table by leftist billionaires, James Riady and George Soros. Asking the government to fund foreign welfare but not asking them to secure our borders demonstrates the Beltway world these men live in.
The letter ended by expressing, “These programs help make the United States a great nation, and they also contribute to our security and continued prosperity.”
Of course, none of the aforementioned men are on record asking for a border wall to help our nation’s security and continued prosperity.
These evangelicals, led by Russell Moore, are tools of the Democratic left. Instead of lobbying Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to urge them to end the government shutdown by funding previous congressional commitments – the border wall – they are insisting that Donald Trump end the shut down so he can continue using American tax dollars to strengthen every nation but America.
You can read the letter here.
