SBC Exec Comm Prez. Jeff Iorg Likens Churches Who ‘Designate Their CP Giving’ To Children Choosing Their Own Gender
SBC Executive Committee (EC) President Jeff Iorg has come out swinging against Southern Baptists and churches that designated their giving to some entities and not others, attributing church autonomy and principled cooperation to the same root cause as transgenderism.
(We last wrote about Iorg in our post Jeff Iorg Encapsulates the Laodicean SBC, and in SBC Credentials Committee Under Fire For Deeming Two Churches With Lady Pastors ”In Cooperation’‘, where we note that Iorg, who voted against the Law Amendment, keeps on bucking the will of Southern Baptists by trying to keep churches with women Pastors in the SBC)
During the Monday night plenary of the SBC Executive Committee meeting, Iorg went off on individuals and churches that were choosing not to give to certain entities.
Instead, he says Southern Baptists need to “surrender control” to other Southern Baptists, all the while blaming them for the sin of individualism for not blanket supporting every Southern Baptist entity.
One of executive committee’s core responsibilities is managing and distributing cooperative program funds to SBC entities. This is becoming more challenging because of how churches and state conventions are changing the definition of cooperative program giving. For example, so far in 2025, the Executive Committee has received gifts in 33 different alternate quote unquote cooperative program configurations.
These include all kinds of delineations omitting certain entities and directing gifts to other entities. This is more than an accounting challenge. It is redefining the cooperative program as a catch-all phrase masking a return to an old approach of societal giving. This approach has been rejected by previous generations of SBC leaders as inadequate to fund a vast global mission enterprise.
He continues:
While there are programmatic and political reasons for these current changes, a more important factor is the philosophical commitment underlining these developments. Changes in the cooperative program are rooted in a worldview shift that has marked Western culture and unfortunately bled into SBC life. The problem is the fracturing influence of ‘expressive individualism’, the dominant worldview of our time.
Expressive individualism is the root of cultural developments ranging from obsessive sharing on social media to convincing children they can choose their own gender. It is the worldview which demands mass customization and at the same time fuels aggressive tribalism. Southern Baptists live in this cultural milieu and are being influenced by it. This is troubling because expressive individualism is theologically and philosophically antithetical to cooperation, which is the theological and philosophical foundation of our combined efforts.
And then concludes:
Cooperation means working willingly with people who do not agree with you on everything. Expressive individualism insists you have your way and only work with people who agree with you, or better, will reward you for your individual choices.
Cooperation means you sacrifice to achieve common goals not leverage gifts to enforce your personal preferences. Cooperation means you surrender control to fellow Baptists you elect, which is anathema to expressive individualists.
The current tribalism and continuing reshuffling of sectarian loyalties in the SBC is a byproduct of this worldview shift. People demand their positions prevail, continually realign with others who share their perspective, and will only fund what they find amenable. This creates an ever-changing kaleidoscope of collaborations demanding new funding channels.
While we often encourage increased unified cooperative program giving, it is not likely to happen until a deeper theological and philosophical commitment is addressed that will determine our future. Southern Baptists must first recommit to cooperation, rejecting expressive individualism and the inroads it has made. We must reaffirm cooperation, not conformity, as the best biblical methodology for working together. We must reaffirm what I call the ‘messiness of cooperation,’ particularly as we become more geographically, racially, economically, and politically diverse.
It’s an incredibly arrogant speech, and his statements reveal his abject and willful ignorance of the issues people have.
Sounds more like Communism, not cooperation. I will not be guilted into being blindly led by anyone who says, “we know what is best.” Or, “trust me!”
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