SBC Prez J.D. Greear plays Identity Politics with Southern Baptist Convention Appointments
(Capstone Report) New committee appointments over-represent favored groups considered oppressed by secular society and under-represent whites and males. The SBC is 85% White but only 49% of the new appointments are White. Is this real diversity or Affirmative Action at work?
SBC President J.D. Greear appointed the SBC’s 2021 Committee on Committees (yes, that is a real thing), and it looks nothing like the community it serves. The Committee is composed of 39 women, 29 men and is majority non-white. In other words, the committee over-represents certain preferred groups at the expense of the people who pay the bills and faithfully attend Southern Baptist Convention churches. And, SBC Elites justify this with their new idol—Diversity.
“I am grateful for this diverse group and their willingness to be a part of the process, many of them serving for the first time,” Greear said in a statement published by Pravda, err Baptist Press. “They are people who want to unify around the Gospel above all and who believe we must be a convention that reflects the coming Kingdom while we engage the next generation on mission. They truly are Great Commission Baptists.”
The BP story is worthy of a press release from a Woke corporation like Delta or Coke.
Gone is any notion that the SBC system should represent the churches it serves. Instead, diversity is the new idol.
A few years ago, SBC Elites were…
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Editor’s Note. This article was written and published at the Capstone Report
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