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SBC Cliff Notes: Don't know; don't care.

Commented: Monday, October 5th, 2015 @ 9:50 am By: Ted McDonald

Ted---the average Southern Baptist church member had no clue how much the new SBC hates women and gays. In NC we have a new "financial policy" which sends money back to any church which ministers to gays or has a female pastor. It is narrow and exclusionary to what used to be a welcoming of gifts for mission support.

From the snake handling Baptists in the mountains to the formal services of old coastal traditions---ALL could participate who wished. NEVER was there any exclusion over some fundamentalist definition of "who qualifies" to give . . .

Commented: Monday, October 5th, 2015 @ 8:39 am By: Gene Scarborough

Ted --- you are a typical Baptist these days = giving to something that is not what you thought it to be, but God is still working in this world of mess . . .

Commented: Sunday, October 4th, 2015 @ 12:24 pm By: Gene Scarborough

The Southern Baptist Convention operated on a trust and share funds basis to support missions. The average Baptist gets literature which is now greatly altered from its basis in 1950-1990. It is now based on fundamentalist presentation of a Bible which is far from simple and dictated by God to human hands.

We were addressing some serious biblical issues and those of society as it is lived in Baptist churches. Now, NC refuses to take funds from any church ministering to homosexuals or having a female pastor. The prejudice and hate is clear to me and they are falling apart to the point they are reducing their missionary force by some 40% due to lack of giving in the mega church selfishness of many large churches these days. The idea of new mission churches is replaced by satellite churches operating under the umbrella of a mega which loves to look big over ministering with new independent churches.

The Contol Factor is obvious to me --- and not to most laypeople still participating in SBC work by their gifts given in trust that "things have not changed so much."

Commented: Saturday, October 3rd, 2015 @ 10:49 am By: Gene Scarborough

I have a sweet and college-educated mother. She is a Baptist woman who would be told to shut her mouth these days in church. She believes so much in mission giving, she still gives to a Southern Baptist church which would never allow a woman in the pulpit or as a Deacon---and silences female missionaries.

Were my father still alive, should would understand. If preachers told their congregations the truth about the takeover, more would understand. Too many just keep quiet so as not to make waves with the NC Baptist State Convention or local church understanding of the new reality.

DUH ~~~~ Always check your retirement program SBC dollars before ever saying something that might get your comfort cut---even if churches should go to Hell in a handbasket along with missions.

Commented: Monday, June 8th, 2015 @ 10:03 am By: Gene Scarborough