Round 2! Mike Stone Challenges Bart Barber for SBC President
Pastor Mike Stone has thrown his hat in the ring and announced he will challenge current president Bart Barber for the Southern Baptist Convention presidency, citing a ‘serious causes of great concern within the denomination’ as his motivation for running.
Stone, of Emmanuel Baptist Church of Blackshear, GA, previously ran for the presidency in 2021 but lost to plagiarizer Ed Litton 48% to 52%. At the time, we lamented the impact the fake controversy of Hannah Kate’s meeting with Mike Stone had on voters. This encounter resulted in a story circulating of Stone causing a sex-abuse victim to burst into tears after a conversation, leading many to question whether the story was true and consequently pulling their votes.
In 2022, Barber beat Tom Ascol by a wide margin to secure the presidency. However, his reign has been disastrous, particularly in his consistently insane and schizophrenic positions on abortion abolition, his continued slander of abortion abolitionists, and his consistent refusal to engage his abortion abolitionist critics.
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The SBC is heading downhill at breakneck speed and Barber is surely contributing to their demise. If the denomination has any hope of turning the ship around, they’ll send him packing with wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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Irrelevant. The SBC is, and has been toast for a looong time. It has female pastors, emerging pastors, and Calvinist pastors. Time to let it go💡
You should realize that it started out as a “Calvinist” denomination, which was the mainstream protestant view at the time. It wasn’t until armenianism became popularized in the early 20th century that Arminian churches eventually overtook the denomination and became majority because of prominent Arminian influencers such as Billy Graham and many others.
Too many of the female messengers will vote with the liberals as is typical.
Why do we even have female messengers? Both the old and new testament state as fact that in light of being more easily deceived, they are to be under the authority of men. Sending an ever-higher percentage of women as messenger to decide the future and fate of the SBC is having the expected outcome. The left is deceiving the majority of them, and of course some of the men along with them. Ignoring the Bible on this reality has the expected consequences, and the left knows it.
The takeover of the SBC has been orchestrated with this in mind, and yet the conservative voices cower in silence. With this in mind, the outcome is known in advance.
The SBC trashed itself into being irrelevant a long time ago so what does it matter “who wins?”
@Paul
I wasn’t aware it started out as a Calvinist denomination because I know 2 Pastors that left the SBC in the late 70’s and they definitely aren’t Calvinist, or Arminian for that matter. Calvinists tend to try to pigeon hole you into the Arminian camp if you aren’t Calvinist.
And Billy Graham, personally I think he would lean more toward the Roman Catholic side of the coin, God knows he has done great things for the cause of Catholicism, unfortunately.
Pigeonholing goes both ways.
Generally speaking, Arminianism attributes God’s election and pre-determined decrees in the Bible for those who will be Saved to His divine foreknowledge of a person’s free-will choice to choose to accept the gift of salvation for themselves. The emphasis is that it is up to us, both for salvation and for bringing people to Christ.
Generally speaking, Calvinism attributes God’s election and pre-determined decrees in the Bible more literally, and in light of all parts of Scripture that speak to the subject. This requires God to change a sinner’s heart, and for God to give the gift of faith for that sinner to truly desire to want to accept the free gift of salvation for themselves. The emphasis is that it is up to God, both for salvation and for bringing people to Christ, with an added emphasis on being faithful to evangelize the lost as a command of Scripture rather than it is up to us to get the job done. One plants, one waters, but God brings the increase.
After hearing pastors and teachers over time, it is often fairly easy to determine which side of the spectrum they have determined to give emphasis to.
John Calvin was merely using the Bible to refute the five points set forth by the forerunner of Arminius who advanced the notion of human-determined free-will with regard to the salvation of men. Coolhaes, “forerunner of Arminius,” espoused many views that Arminius later preached. In 1581, the views of Coolhaes were condemned and consider heresy. In 1582, Coolhaes was deposed from the ministry and excommunicated. All the while, Arminius continued to study and advance in position to eventually again espouse his teaching. By 1591, Arminius was becoming a controversial figure and generated what was called the first Arminian Controversy. In 1604, Arminius presented his theses on predestination. Gomarus counterattacked, which started the Second Arminian controversy.
From that time until the late 1800s through early 1900s, Arminian ideas were either fringe or a minority view. It wasn’t until the late 1800s when what we now know as a formal “alter call” and “Sinners Prayer” were promoted and popularized that hints of Arminian thought began to take hold. The emphasis on making a free-will choice to receive God’s free gift of salvation was then popularized in the early to mid 1900s. During this period it became mainstream. Emphasizing and accepting this free-will gift without mentioning our sinful condition and turning from our sin was then popularized in the late 1900s.
Possibly as a result of this trajectory away from a God-centered Christianity toward a more human-centered free-will Christianity that led to the excesses we see throughout Christianity, many people started heading back to the biblical principles that John Calvin categorized in his 5-point refutation of the five points from Coolhaes. Those have since become known as the five points of Calvinism. Even though they were merely five points taken from Scripture to refute 5 philosophical points pertaining to Scripture, many people have now become ardent Adminians without knowing it, and without even knowing that it was only recently popularized.
History is interesting. More people should learn more in these and other areas. After all, we are brothers and sisters in Christ. It’s good to know how traditions came about and if traditions have skewed our views of Scripture… for those on both sides of every issue.
Thanks for taking the time to type that, I lot in there I didn’t know. 👍
Don’t quote everything I wrote. I could have written it better. John Calvin was no longer alive during that time, so I should have said the teaching of Calvin was used rather than John Calvin did or said things