That's all I can say about this most recent commentary from Dr. Russell Moore. Read the whole thing. Twice.
If you don't want to read the whole thing, read these two passages. Then, you'll want to read the whole thing.
If you don't want to read the whole thing, read these two passages. Then, you'll want to read the whole thing.
If Southern Baptists were to embrace the supernatural perspective we say we believe, however, we would have much more to say. We would seem much less sophisticated, much more backward, much less at home in modern America. It is far easier, and yet far more costly, to keep our talk of demons and spiritual warfare locked away in our closed but inerrant Bibles, lest anyone should mistake us for Pentecostals.
We have become the people that Jesus warned us about. Southern Baptists more and more want to distance ourselves from our blue-collar, economically impoverished roots, and more and more wish to be seen as affluent, suburban, and politically influential. But this comes with a cost.
1 comment:
i remember in a church history class in seminary one of my profs talking about how baptists were following the same historical course as mainline churches. most denominations start out as grassroots, lower class movements and grow like wild fire. as denominations became more affluent, they began to shrink. seems like that is the case with us!
Post a Comment