CrossPolitic studio has released their much-anticipated mini documentary ‘How The SBC Got Played‘,’ which outlines how the Southern Baptist Convention, edged on and manipulated by bad faith actors and grifters, made a series of costly mistakes (particularly around their so-called sex abuse scandal) that resulted in catastrophic financial and spiritual consequences.
A promo for the film explains:
July 23, 2019. Founders Ministry drops a documentary trailer that flashes a blurred silhouette for just over a second. Nine days later, three board members resign.
Not over a scandal. Because they didn’t want to be associated with questioning one woman.
Four years later, court documents proved the questioning was right. An unlicensed investigation. A lead attorney wearing four hats simultaneously: advocate, editor, advisor, and opposing counsel. $1.05 million to her client. $13 million drained from the largest conservative Protestant denomination in America.
This is a story about a five-phase playbook documented by economist Gary North in 1996 for taking over a conservative institution from the inside. With procedure. With moral pressure. With guilt.
The SBC followed every step.
Phase one: find the moral vulnerability they can’t defend.
Phase two: make institutional self-defense look like complicity.
Phase three: force the procedural surrender.
Phase four: use the surrendered weapons.
Phase five: inherit everything.
Harvard. Yale. Princeton Seminary. The PCUSA. Now the SBC.
Same playbook. Every time.
The question isn’t whether it’s coming for your institution. It is.
The question is whether your men will stand.
Check out the full thing here:
9 responses to “CrossPolitic Releases MiniDoc ‘How The SBC Got Played’- A MUST WATCH For Southern Baptists”
Yep, of course much of that strategy would seem similar to what I myself did in the course of reporting the local pastor for encouraging the prominent member to continue in sins of fraud, theft, coercion, enslavement, generally severe violations of the rights of my mother and myself. I did not seek a dime. We don’t want anything but that which is ours, which was stolen from us. Not a penny more. Not a penny less. And I appealed to the church not only because of Matt. 18 and 1 Cor. 6, but also because we don’t have any money to hire a lawyer, and because local law enforcement had already turned me away by claiming that there couldn’t be any crimes involved in what would otherwise be a civil matter (which stinks to high Heaven). What I wanted was for the SBC, or any decent pastor in the SBC, to have a talk with the pastor, to hold him accountable, for him to repent for what he did, to correct his error, and for him to then rightly hold that prominent member accountable. I don’t want a penny from the SBC. I don’t want a penny from the church. Nothing like that at all.
But knowing about all that has happened, I just pretty much responded to Jeff Lorg, when he said that the SBC didn’t have the resources to investigate (without bothering to even look at my evidence to evaluate how much investigation might be needed) and said “Thank you for responding. I understand. You’ve already helped more than you know. I won’t bother you all with this any further”
Of course they suspected me. I’m sure. Others who’ve read what I’ve written here probably also suspect. So it is in this wicked world. Leniency, if not reward, for the unrepentant wicked always results in punishment of the innocent. It is because of all the swindling and gifting that my mother and I cannot expect justice this side of judgment day.
It is because even those who might’ve been wronged, recompensed evil for evil, caring more about how much money they could squeeze out of the SBC, than about accountability and cleaning up the Lord’s church, or about justice as the Lord defines justice. And that, ironically, only makes it more difficult for the church to be able to deal with subsequent problems. The ambulance chasers get the riches they want, “I got mine!”, and don’t give a flying flip about how it might affect the next one who seeks justice. It doesn’t make anything better. It only makes things worse. It makes things worse even for the victims of injustice because they’ll have to live with it weighing on their conscience, knowing they sold out for 30 pieces of silver, knowing they themselves have worked to deny justice to others.
Should clarify, when Jeff said they didn’t have the resources to investigate, he wasn’t lying, and I knew he wasn’t lying. That money is long gone. (Though I didn’t particularly need any lengthy investigation)
I can tell the rabid feminists one thing. There is a widow in this household who has been severely wronged by a wicked man, who is getting away with his sins because of what they’ve done. They haven’t accomplished anything but to make things worse.
Worse than that, there is an unqualified, impenitent “pastor” leading many astray, who also is not being held accountable.
It likely wont be much longer before the SBC goes the way of all the other apostate denominations. Right now, they’re just hanging out a different “sin is good” sign, but it wont be much longer. The state of the church is returning to what it was when God sent His son. It’s full of pharisees and wicked people for whom church is nothing but a useful tool and cover for their wickedness. But this next time, God is going to unleash His wrath …
It helps them get away with their wickedness. That’s the only reason they ever walk through the doors.
The “pastor’s” response in defiant anger, it wasn’t about right and wrong, it was about whether or not someone walks through the doors as often as he’d like. In other words, a license to sin against anybody who doesn’t. No justice for my mother and I because we haven’t walked through the doors often enough. The doors of what, I don’t have a clue, but I do know it’s not a church. That much is plainly evident.
It won’t be much longer now …
I know, without any question, when the Lord says that He will repay, it means He absolutely will repay. He is all we have. But the good news is that He is all we need. I’m not worried about it in the least. But that doesn’t mean I do nothing. It means that in the course of it, the wicked-hearted are called to repentance. You can’t put a price on hearing the words “well done my good and faithful servant”. If I have to die homeless under a bridge to hear those words, then I’ll be quite happy dying homeless under a bridge. So be it. Now I’ve got to go put this aging, aching flesh of mine to work, to dig out of the hole I’m in because I stupidly believed the lies of a wicked man, who has stolen my retirement. And do that while the rest of them sit in the pew every Sunday morning, pretending to be something they’re not.
I’ve said recently of scammers, swindlers, fraudsters. You know, they think they’re smart. I said, if they were smart they’d all be billionaires. They’re not smart. They’re stupid. With the dumbest thing they do, by far, being to defy their Creator. The Lord will repay them for what they’ve done.
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Just finished watching the video. Very well done, and focused right where it should be – on God’s word, on His standards, on His commandments, and on putting Him first. Everyone should watch it.
It’s worth posting again, on this thread. Those who appeal to the commandments of men, are likely the same who violated the commandments of God. Those of us who watched it all, and smelled it from the beginning, are not exactly shocked. Because it began with an appeal to the commandments of men – the world’s definition of “abuse”, and not God’s definition. Before all was said and done, the church had abandoned the Lord and bowed down to mankind.
The ultimate lesson in all this, the most obvious example of that lesson, Jennifer Lyall. Taken suddenly, and went to her grave with severe unrepented sin. The Lord did not give her any last chance to repent.
Now that money is worthless. She’ll be begging Lazarus to dip his finger in the water (Luke 16:19-31). And she was warned, as all have been warned (again – Luke 16:27-31), and some have themselves even preached. She has condemned herself (Rev. 21:8, Rev. 22:15)
My local church (former), has turned itself into nothing but a big scam and swindle. And so the same has happened to the SBC. It isn’t just full of liars, deceivers, fraudsters, swindlers, coercers, extortionists, thieves, sexually immoral, blasphemers of the Holy Spirit, servants of Satan … it has become those things. It is now nothing but one big scam and swindle.
They too may be given no last chance to repent. Indeed, the Lord may have already given them over to strong delusion to ensure that they will be condemned (2 Thess. 2:11-12), and it may be such strong delusion that is the reason they remain defiantly unrepentant. And some, those who have perverted the grace of God into a license to sin, have been condemned from long ago (Jude, 2 Peter 2).
Peter reminds us “Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.” For the righteous, those who’ve been wronged, those who grieve at what has become of the church, which at this time cannot even be legitimately called a “church”, it is a comfort. We know there will be justice. For the wicked, it is a stern warning. Their time is running out. Just as the one they’re serving (whether they realize it or not), his time is running out. And like Jennifer Lyall, they may not be afforded any more opportunities to repent.
The truth is we don’t know exactly how organized and planned the entire mess may have been (and continue to be). It could be that they all have been themselves deceived, scammed, swindled, coerced, and extorted into doing what they’ve done. These rabid feminist groups, they look for recruits, they target women they can use, then they manipulate, if not force, those women to comply. They do the same to men. The worst one involved in all this, Rachael Denhollander, could herself be a target, manipulated into doing what she’s done. Who knows. The truth is that the orchestrator of it all is Satan himself. The serpent doing what the serpent has been doing since the beginning.
They should know time is running out. They may never get any more opportunities to repent. They will have no excuses. They will be given no leniency on that day, for the Lord is not a liar, He will judge exactly as He has said that He will judge.