Interesting Times and Changing Times in the SBC

The progressives over reached with this conference. I think it will cause the conservatives to bring the conservative resurgence 2.0 to the SBC. They are giving Tom Buck, Tom Ascol and others tons of ammo heading into the next convention.


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SBC is going to Hell in a hand basket.

 

Back in the 1970s they had a woman speak at the SBC Pastors Conference, and then ran her for vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention!

 

LOL, it was the Conservatives who did that.

Conservatives controlled the pre-convention Pastors Conference in the mid to late 1970s, even before they started capturing the SBC Presidency.

(Adrian Rogers presided over the 1976 SBC Pastors Conference, Jerry Vines in 1977, Bailey Smith in 1978, etc.)

from Baptist Pess, when future Conservative Resurgence SBC President Bailey Smith presided over the 1978 Pastors Conference, he brought in Anita Bryant and James Robison:

"ATLANTA (BP)--The Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference...includes an opening night address by singer Anita Bryant, will emphasize the old fashioned evangelistic spirit....Three more sessions on Monday, June 12, will also feature high powered preaching...according to Pastors' Conference president, Bailey Smith, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church, Del City, Okla. The conference...will close Monday night with a sermon by James Robison, evangelist from Hurst, Texas"



The chief strategist of the so-called Conservative Resurgence, Paul Pressler, explained in his book how their running Anita Bryant for VP in 1978 contributed to their capturing the SBC Presidency (with Adrian Rogers) in 1979:

Pressler: "Bill Self, a pastor in Atlanta.'..[was] setting himself up as the next presidential candidate of the SBC establishment."

"[He was] to succeed Jimmy Allen in 1979. According to their plan, Bill was to be nominated for first vice president as a stepping-stone to the presidency."

so the Conservatives put up Anita Bryant...a woman!

Pressler: "Anita agreed to run for vice-president....She shared our concerns about the SBC direction"

"Bill Self, a moderate, had said that he was not going to run against Anita Bryant, so it was decided that she should run for first vice-president and keep Bill from setting himself up as the next presidential candidate of the SBC establishment."

"She lost....The moderates...were not above fanning emotions against a woman’s leadership when it suited their purposes. That’s what they did against Anita."

"Bill Self was elected second vice president, thus advancing his presidential ambition for the next year in Houston. However, he was not in nearly as strong a position as he would have been as first vice president."

 

Leftist ruin everything

 

This time I think its different. The fact they ousted Patterson in the manner they did proves they have power that runs deep.

 

We need to purge the convention, not leave it.

 

Were you part of the Sbc when there was that Civil war among moderates and conservatives on mainly how to view the scriptures, and it took those like Charles Stanley and Adrian rogers to get into affect then change?

 

So you would have seen that conflict unfolding.....
Similar to what is going on now?

 

is there a push to recognize women as pastors/teachersfor example?

 

Isn't that where the big problem was at, as many seminaries were starting to hold to critical views of scriptures back then, as limited flood, Genesis largely spiritual myth, unknown authors of scriptures etc?