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Breaking: SBC via NAMB Trustees Lie to US Supreme Court

(Capstone Report) Once again Southern Baptists present a false statement to federal courts in a desperate effort to defeat Will McRaney and protect Kevin Ezell.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission lied to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the Will McRaney case. Now, lawyers for the North American Mission Board (NAMB) just filed a brief with the Supreme Court of the United States that is deceptive and false. Namely, NAMB just claimed state conventions are Southern Baptist entities.

NAMB claimed in its filing May 28, 2021, “Reverend McRaney attempts to avoid certiorari by emphasizing that, though he was employed by one Southern Baptist entity, he was never employed by the particular Southern Baptist entity that he sued, namely the SBC Mission Board.”

There are only 12 Southern Baptist entities—and the state conventions are NOT Southern Baptist entities.

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Breaking: SBC Presidential Candidate’s Wife Preaches at his Church

Ed Litton, Pastor of Redemption Church (Saraland, AL), and considered one of the more progressive candidates running for the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention, claims to have complementarian creds and that women do not preach at his church, despite it being revealed in a series of recently unearthed videos that his wife has on occasion preached tag-team sermons with him.

This, of course, is a sneaky and unbecoming practice, where the pastor will let a woman preach but stands on stage with them in order to give her his “authoritative covering.” It is nothing but semantic word games and is no different than Adam standing by and watching Eve take of the forbidden fruit.

This is what Ed Litton has done.

During his questionnaire for the Council of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood’s Candidate forum, though he said that “The only ministry the Bible limits to God-called and qualified men is the office of pastor, which is rightly designated by the title of pastor and elder,” he also specifically said that women do not preach from his pulpit: a revelation that is patently untrue.

4. Recently, there have been some publicized instances of women serving as the Sunday morning preacher in Southern Baptist churches. Do you think the Bible allows for women to serve in this role? Explain.

I think that our pulpits should be places that reflect our view of pastors. At Redemption church, we do not have women preach. However, we intentionally promote the significant ways that women can and do serve.

Let me say that I understand that some pastors have a different approach to who can speak when the church gathers for corporate worship, even if that’s not my approach, I respect their right and responsibility to lead their church as God has called them to do so.

Redemption Church absolutely allows women to preach. His wife has preached alongside him, and him being there doesn’t make it ok.

Watching one’s wife publicly go before the body and sin by preaching is a critical failure of headship and leadership, shows why Litton cannot be trusted, and is absolutely disqualifying from leading the convention.

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SBC Loses 435,000 Members in 2020 in Historic Drop

The Southern Baptist Convention membership continues to plummet according to the Annual Church Profile (ACP) report, with the denomination suffering a record loss of nearly half a million members in 2020.

Though the loss of these congregants dips their total amount of members to 14 million, down from a peak of 16.3 million in 2006, it is in fact nowhere near an accurate number of real Southern Baptist members.

SBC membership rolls are notoriously inaccurate and inflated, with purging the rolls viewed as thoroughly distasteful and far too humbling a task for most. Realistically the SBC would be lucky to have even 5 million members that could be found on any given Sunday.

The report further notes that “Southern Baptist churches also experienced a decline in worship attendance in 2020. Average weekly worship attendance declined by 15.44% percent to 4.4 million in-person worshippers.”

This is a far more accurate baseline of how many members they actually have.

Scott McConnell, executive director of Lifeway Research, declares that COVID-19 and the mass church closures definitely had something to with the losses, noting that as Pastors reconnected with people after being shut down or online for so long, they “discovered some on their membership lists who moved away, joined another church, or no longer wanted to be a member.”

With bad news across the board, the only thing that did grow appears to have been “multisite congregations” who added 529 campuses.

Baptisms were also cut in half, from 235,748 in 2019 to 123,160 in 2020, with McConnel explaining that “socially distant behavior is helpful for containing a pandemic, but it hindered meeting new people, inviting people to church, and helping them take a step of obedience to be baptized,” 

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Russell Moore Leaves the ERLC, Jumps Ship to Even More Progressive ‘Christianity Today’

Russell Moore, the head of the Ethics and Religious and Liberty Commission (ERLC) who recently took a personal hit when he was torched by the SBC’s Executive Committee for the way he runs his organization, summarized by the phrase, “The direction of the ERLC is a significant source of division and creates a very real challenge to reversing CP [Cooperative Program] decline,” has left the ERLC and joined forces with the paragon of liberal virtue, Christianity Today.

Moore, fresh off the heels of trying to form a “serpent mating knot” (click at your own discretion) will lead a new ‘Public Theology Project’, according to President and CEO Tim Dalrymple, where he will be “devoted to cultivating a forward-looking, joyful, consistent gospel witness.”

It’s to the great shame of the Southern Baptist Convention that the devil went on his own accord, rather than being run of town on his ear. So long as they employed him, the SBC continued its woeful theological ineptitude, moral cowardice, and spiritual blindness as it kept on sliding deeper into spiritual destruction, rank heresy and (ironically considering its apparent goals) cultural irrelevance.

For years SBC cooperative dollars were used to platform Moore and false teachers like him. He left on his own terms rather than being tar and feathered (in the spirit of, course) and given over to public scorn by being made an example of what it means to be marked and avoided.

Of his new role, Moore said in a statement:

“Christianity Today has meant a great deal to me in my faith journey. I am thrilled to join the team and lead the Public Theology Project. We need to recover a theologically orthodox, intellectually credible, socially engaged, missiologically holistic, and generally connected witness for American evangelical Christianity. This is a critical moment, and the Public Theology Project is devoted toward that goal.” 

Of course, the reason he’s going to Christianity Today is that he fits right in with them.

Christianity Today is the progressive rag known for giving a platform to every weird and liberally insidious bent. They came out swinging against the storming of Capitol Hill by laying the responsibility for the mayhem at the feet of the “white American church” and any leaders who voted for and supported the President.

They released editorials calling Trump voters “jobless” and “uneducated,” with that same Editor-in-Chief writing that he didn’t even know any Trump Supporters (yes, he was the same guy who was a Roman Catholic for the last two years and no one there even cared).

These guys brought us such wonderful articles recently like the new Editor-in-Chief likening any churches being open during Covid to engaging in “snake handling.” Last year, they ran an article saying that polyamory provided an “attractive alternative” and that churches should be affirming. A few months ago they accused white Christians of being inherent racists who were committing acts of spiritual violence against black people by voting GOP.

Moore will commence his new job in the summer.

Truly, they are a match made in hell.



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Podcast: Jesus Didn’t Die for the Para-Church

On this episode of Polemics Report for May 13th, 2021, JD weighs in on an author at SBC Voices calling for a truce between complementarians and churches with lady pastors and conservatives in Cru exposing the woke disaster in the organization. In the patron-only portion, David discusses pushback on the last podcast’s title, plays a little bit of the upcoming music video, and JD answers patron questions concerning deacons and new Calvinism.

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SBC’s National Day of Prayer Rips Off the NAR’s ‘Seven Mountain Mandate’

The SBC Executive committee released a guide designed to support members during the upcoming National Day of Prayer. Captioned ‘How to pray the 2021 theme, Lord, Pour out your Love, Life, and Liberty into the Seven Centers of Influence in America for the National Day of Prayer, May 6, 2021.‘ The guide is the spitting image of the New Apostolic Reformation’s notion of the “Seven Mountain Mandate.”

The idea of the “Seven Mountain Mandate” was first introduced in the summer of 1975 by Loren Cunningham and Bill Bright, it’s birth the result of a “direct revelation from God.” The two men brought it to the Church as something that must be shared and it was quickly latched on to and popularized within charismatic circles by “prophets,” “prophetesses,” and “apostles” such as C. Peter Wagner, Chuck Pierce, Lance Wallnau, and Cindy Jacobs.

According to gotquestions.org, “Those who follow the seven mountain mandate believe that, in order for Christ to return to earth, the church must take control of the seven major spheres of influence in society for the glory of Christ. Once the world has been made subject to the kingdom of God, Jesus will return and rule the world.”

The seven mountains, according to the seven mountain mandate, are:
1) Education, 2) Religion, 3) Family, 4) Business, 5) Government/Military, 6) Arts/Entertainment, 7) Media.

These seven sectors of society are thought to mold the way everyone thinks and behaves. So, to tackle societal change, these seven “mountains” must be transformed. The mountains are also referred to as “pillars,” “shapers,” “molders,” and “spheres.” Those who follow the seven mountain mandate speak of “occupying” the mountains, “invading” the culture, and “transforming” society.

When we look at the guide that the SBC introduced, we see the exact same mandate and the exact same mountains:

While the NAR wants to take dominion and sociopolitical control of these categories through their prayers, with the help of their apostles and prophets, in the form of dreams, visions, and direct revelation from God, we are thankful that the SBC hasn’t gone there.

But ripping off a play from their playbook is wildly inappropriate and completely unnecessary. The SBC needs to stop borrowing from the NAR and stop repackaging “the seven spheres of influence” as “the seven centers of influence.” SBC Churches don’t need to borrow anything from the NAR, and that includes inspiration for their prayer guides.

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Kyle J. Howard Claims SBTS Full of Racists, Twauma

For Southern Baptist leaders embracing Critical Race Theory and Standpoint Epistemology, this is the kind of slander, embarrassment, childishness, and downright racism that you are encouraging.

In a tweet “celebrating” completing his Masters in Theology (proving they’ll give these degrees to anyone willing to pay for them), the always-twamatized Kyle J. Howard claimed he couldn’t walk the grounds of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary – much less receive his degree in person – because of, well, twauma. This is the same school he claimed employs a professor who told him so-called “black theology” was inferior.

The self-proclaimed battle rapper, former Crip, and drug dealer (who now apparently and inexplicably gets call “Rev” down on “da block”) claimed that the rise of Donald Trump and the “ongoing deaths” of unarmed black people led to an outbreak of overt racism on the campus of the Southern Baptist Seminary and caused him to feel unsafe even being there:

https://twitter.com/KyleJamesHoward/status/1390668813566414848

The twauma counselor, “theologian,” and “soul care provider” found support from the usual cabal of CRT-promoting grifters like ex-SBC pastor Dwight McKissic, who revealed how his subjective feelings revealed no racism at SWBTS (that is, no “experiences” his feelings decided were racist), but that KJH’s feelings were legit (and how it was regrettable Critical Race Theory wasn’t wholly supported at Southwestern):

And then there was “rapper who also happens to be Christian” Lecrae, who likened the Christians at SBTS to Egyptians enslaving the Israelites, and Moses to a pathologically lying and laughably embarrassing twauma queen:

The fact that Kyle J. Howard earned a Master’s Degree from a Southern Baptist school is proof positive that credentials mean almost nothing in terms of a person’s ability to minister, understand scripture, or you know, be an actual grown-up in society. A person so willing to lie about their past (and present) and who is so scared of their own shadow that they can’t set foot on a college campus has absolutely no business attempting to minister to anyone else.

By the way, there is still $3500 available to anyone presenting actual evidence of KJH’s gang-banging ways.

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SBC Denies Worldview Weekend Reporter Press Credentials for Annual Meeting

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Insane new policy attempts to restrict messengers who are also bloggers; Policy makes SBC Press Office into mind readers.

((Capstone Report) The Southern Baptist Convention denied Rev. Thomas Littleton press credentials to cover the 2021 Annual Meeting in Nashville. Littleton covered the 2018 and 2019 Annual Meetings; however, the SBC decided that it would not allow Littleton to cover this year’s event. Littleton provides the details and background on his website.

According to the SBC credential policy, “Press accreditation will NOT be granted to anyone whose principal purpose in attending this event is, in the judgment of SBC Executive Committee Communications staff, for reasons other than gathering details, interviews, and/or photos for a news report or feature. The SBC Executive Committee Communications staff also reserves the right, at its discretion, to reject the application of anyone who, in their judgement, may be attending the event under false pretenses or with ulterior motives or malicious intent.”

It looks like the SBC Communications staff are mind readers and know motives and intent. How bureaucratic!

The rejection email is interesting. The SBC writes…

Hi Rev. Littleton,

“Thank you so much for your application. I appreciate you taking the…

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SBC President Continues to Promote Same-Sex Attraction “Christianity”

In a multi-series Q&A podcast, Southern Baptist Convention President JD Greear has gone to Rebecca McLaughlin – purveyor of Same-Sex Attraction (SSA) “Christianity” – for the answers to questions on all things relating to sex, race, and faithful Christian witnessing – continuing his promotion of the myth of gay Christianity and that homosexuality is merely something the Bible whispers about. Many of McLaughlin’s answers and claims are verbatim repetitions of her appearance at the Gospel Coalition’s 2019 National Conference.

What is SSA “Christianity?” It is a movement within the larger evangelical movement that narrowly defines the sin of homosexuality to include only acting upon one’s sinful desires, and defines the sinful desires themselves as simply a part of a person’s identity and something God is content with not changing in the heart of the believer. Rather than instructing believers to “Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry”(Colossians 3:5), SSA teaches that a regenerate believer can maintain their evil desires – even turning them into a cross to bear for the sake of the Gospel. For further reading, read Cody Libolt’s article Understand the New TGC Orthodoxy on Gay Christians.

The false beliefs of the SSA Christianity movement include:

  • Same-sex attraction is never a result of early childhood abuse and is always unchosen.
  • Same-sex attraction only becomes sin if it is acted upon.
  • Homosexual acts are no different than other sins.
  • Christian regeneration has no influence over same-sex desire.
  • The church is guilty of oppressing this group instead of helping them bear their cross of unchangeable same-sex attraction.

In a four-part Q&A with Greear (as of this publishing, part four hasn’t been released, but considering McLaughlin is recycling her standard false teachings, we have little doubt about what will be said in the fourth part), they cover her usual SSA false beliefs, the validity of those outside the church accusing it of racism, homophobia, and being anti-science, and (of course) the responsibility of white Christians to take responsibility and repent for the sins of their ancestors.

McLaughlin, in her usual effort to blur the distinctions and characteristics of proper Christian relationships (and justify her continued same-sex desires), twists the metaphor of the church as the body of Christ to imply a universalism of relationship between all believers:

“We get tangible glimpses of what it means to be close to Jesus in his body today. I love the biblical metaphor of the church as Jesus’ body. Because it means that when I feel the physical embrace of a sister in Christ if I’m going through a season of suffering in my life, that’s like in a tangible way the arms of Jesus around me…we’re experiencing Jesus.”

Earlier, she says,

When we really do go back to the scriptures, we find a profound pursuit of love. I think we find very clear boundaries around sex. But I think we see that, whereas culture would say to us, “love is love,” the Bible says to us, “God is love” and that we get little glimpses and echoes of his love in different kinds of human relationships – a little bit like the spokes on a wheel. We get glimpses of Jesus’ love in the best of human fathers, just like how God calls himself our father, he’s woven into our existence the possibility of fatherhood as a picture of his love for us. We get a glimpse of Jesus’ love in the best of human marriages…We get glimpses of Jesus’ love in the best of human friendships – perhaps between two men or between two women within the church.

The ease with which she blurs the lines between God’s love for his people (agape, storge), the love within a family (storge), the romantic love within a biblical marriage (eros), and the brotherly love Christians show each other (philostorgos) is profoundly disturbing. She tells Greear, “In New Testament terms, the primary family unit is not the nuclear family, it’s the local church” and “We need to reclaim the real intimacy that can and should occur between Christians that isn’t sexual, erotic, or romantic but is nonetheless a place of real intimacy.” This coming from someone who believes that the vile homosexual desires spoken of in Romans 1:26 are not sinful for the believing Christian, but actually virtuous when not acted upon. Rather than fleeing from temptation (1 Corinthians 6:18, 2 Timothy 2:22), McLaughlin teaches that it is okay to make provision for the flesh (Romans 13:14) by harboring sinful desires that lead to abominable sin. Rather than teaching that the sanctification of the believer involves the defeat of sinful desires (including same-sex attraction), she teaches that God leaves his children permanently susceptible to being overcome by one of the most offensive and destructive offenses against God and nature.

Greear’s contributions to the discussion involve setting up McLaughlin’s inane claims that “we haven’t reckoned with the racist history of much of our Christian tradition,” and “we haven’t reckoned with the ways that we’ve actually used the scriptures sometimes to justify hatred and animosity and judgementalism towards people who would identify as LGBT,” and his assertions (mostly couched in third-party attribution) that early American Christians were “more shaped by the culture than by the scripture” and that today’s American Christians are anti-immigration because we worry immigration will lessen the Christian influence in the nation (for the record, nobody says this).

Side note: Watch out for how often culture worshipping, woke “leaders” like Greear employ the statement by third-party tactic, beginning their claims with things like “I heard a guy say one time,” or “It seems like what is being said is..” These third-party attributions are used to provide an escape hatch so that they can’t be held responsible for what they are about to say. They can promote a false idea and wiggle out when necessary.

McLaughlin and the other SSA lesbians and gays at the hive of scum and villainy known as the Gospel Coalition and the SBC (Jackie Hill Perry, Rachel Gilson, Sam Allberry, Jonathan Merritt) have been pushing for the normalization of homosexual desires within the church for years. They have cast their spell on pragmatism-obsessed, culture-worshipping weaklings like Russell Moore, D.A. Carson, Tim Keller, and the easily-rolled simpleton JD Greear.

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SBC Attempts Replacing a Conservative with Pastor who Praises Barack Obama, Beth Moore

  • J.D. Greear’s Committee on Nominations fires conservative Executive Committee member. Replacement praises Barack Obama, Beth Moore and ERLC head Russell Moore.
  • Executive Committee nominee claims we should not doubt pro-abortion fanatic Barack Obama’s ‘knowledge of the Bible and of the Spirit who authored it.’
  • Precedent shows conservatives have a chance to reverse at the Annual Meeting.

(Capstone Report) In a breach of Southern Baptist Convention protocol, J.D. Greear’s SBC Nominations Committee refused to re-nominate Dr. Tom Tucker of South Carolina. Dr. Tucker is the current Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee and was willing and eligible to serve another term. In Dr. Tucker’s position, Greear’s handpicked committee nominated a pastor who praises Barack Obama and Beth Moore.

The nominating committee was made aware that Dr. Tucker was available for another term; however, the committee decided to force a replacement on the Southern Baptist Convention, according to multiple sources close to the SBC Executive Committee.

This is a violation of precedent.

The last time such a move was attempted by a nominating committee was…

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Editor’s note. This article was originally published at the Capstone Report