SBC’s Baptist Press Promotes Ministry That PAYS Men To Abstain From Violence
Between 2018 and 2022, the city of Philadelphia experienced a 50% increase in the number of shootings. Baptist Press, the Pravda of the Southern Baptist Convention recently highlighted the response by Philadelphia churches to an increase in “gun violence” in their city. The tenor of the article reflects the shift in attitude by many institutionalist leaders in the Convention, including the ERLC’s Brent Leatherwood, who views the Convention’s 2018 resolution on gun violence as a blank check to use cooperative program funds as a means to advocate for gun control and left-leaning social policies.
The article focused on efforts by Great Commission Church of Philadelphia through its Man Up Philadelphia program. The program, led by Solomon Jones, seeks to curb shootings by listening to men considered vulnerable to cycles of violence and providing these individuals with mentorship, job opportunities, and a stipend of $15 per hour for participation in the organization’s activities.
In a meeting of the Philadelphia City Council Committee on Public Safety, Jones explained his rationale for paying participants in the program.
“We do pay stipends to our participants, and those stipends are fifteen dollars an hour. We are cognizant of the fact that folks have been fighting for a long time to raise the minimum wage to 15 an hour, and we felt like that was something that we should do as an example of what happens when you pay somebody 15 an hour. They come in to mentoring sessions where we do character, we do conflict resolution, we do trauma we do job readiness, and we also do financial literacy, and in in conjunction with that we ask these questions around gun violence the causes the effects and the solutions, and that’s when we do a whole lot of listening.”
The idea of listening to the culture and allowing unregenerate people to define the causes and solutions of their own problems is a sure way to become distracted from the root cause of sin, which is a wicked and corrupt heart that rushes headlong into evil. Pastor Larry Anderson of Great Commission Church told Baptist Press that believers need to learn to “exegete the culture.” Pastor Anderson believes that this mission must be accomplished before the Gospel is presented to those who would be involved in violence:
“We’ve got to save their life in the present before we can save their life eternally.”
Solomon Jones of Man Up Philadelphia is known for his social justice activism. He believes that “systemic inequality is driving America’s gun violence” and that the only way to resolve systemic injustice is through national reparations.
In his recently released pro-Black Lives Matter manifesto, Ten Lives, Ten Demands: Life-and-Death Stories, and a Black Activist’s Blueprint for Racial Justice, Solomon uses the deaths of Black people who Solomon argues died in an unjust manner, such as Michael Brown, to argue for reparations and defunding the police, as a means to achieving justice and equality.
Solomon Jones and the Man Up program treat men who are statistically likely to commit crimes as victims of their circumstances. The only solution in Jones’ mind is the enactment of leftist policies such as defunding the police and socialist government schemes designed to redistribute wealth to these so-called victims of circumstance who will otherwise turn to “gun violence.” Jones actively advocated for the Defund The Police movement during the riots of 2020. As a result, the Philadelphia City Council removed $47 million from the 2021 police department budget, resulting in a surge of unbridled violence, as average police response times soared to an average of 22 minutes.
While advocating for the defund the police movement, Jones and his family have been active in “mostly peaceful protests.” From the pulpit of Great Commission Church, Jones recently advocated for “attacking the system” and young people “putting their bodies on the line” in a way that leads to arrests, a decidedly different picture than the one presented to Baptist Press.
“Sometimes we old folk just need to get out the way and make sure we got the bail money when our kids stand up and get arrested.”
The way that many leftists in the SBC approach violence and gun control is no different than the way they approach the issue of abortion. Solomon Jones’ “whole life” violence prevention philosophy that advocates the use of various temporal measures as a means to dissuade men from committing acts of violence is no different than the “whole life” approach of leftists like Karen Swallow Prior, who believes that the answer to preventing abortion is to give women financial support and resources.
These approaches are not Gospel-centered. They don’t direct a wicked generation to repent of their evil hearts that are quick to shed innocent blood. Instead, they treat those in desperate need of repentance as victims of circumstance.
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