Russell Fuller exposes Albert Mohler's late pivot from Moderate to Conservative

[Jerome]

In a just-released 'no women pastors, ever, ever, ever!' video, BJU alum Russell Fuller points out Mohler's delayed shift to the Conservative Resurgence:

At 7m35s:

"In 1984, there was a Resolution on Ordination by the Conservative Resurgence people; they were able to pass this resolution...[that] ordination to the ministry is restricted to men only."

"At Southern Seminary, there was a student named Al Mohler...he took out a full page ad...in the Louisville Courier Journal...[with] signatures of all the professors, [and] most of the students...going against that resolution on ordination. They called themselves 'Moderates'."

"Al Mohler...was all for women in the ministry. And then when it was very clear the Conservatives were going to win, he had a conversion to the Conservative side."

 

[Jerome]

Russell Fuller is right! I've found Mohler portraying himself, and being described, as a 'Centrist' in the SBC conflict, even until the early 1990s. But in 1993 he debuted as the new 'Conservative' president of Southern Seminary!

See, it took the entire decade of the 1980s for a string of Conservative SBC presidents to get their guys as majorities on trustee boards of the SBC's seminaries, mission boards, and other entities.

It took so long because an SBC president appoints a Committee on Committees one year, who appoint the next year's Committee on Nominations, who then nominate trustees of the seminaries, etc., the following year. So first there was a two year delay , and then each year only a fraction of trustees would be replaced, as trustees' terms are four years, and staggered, and it is customary for trustees to serve two terms.

And just about all of those Conservative SBC presidents were elected with slim majorities. Mohler has told how Carl F. H. Henry, a scholar among the Conservatives, visited Southern Seminary, where Mohler was an aide to the Moderate president, and warned him to think of his future. (It was Henry who'd introduced that Conservative anti-women's-ordination resolution at the 1984 Convention!)

 

[Jerome]

In 1989, the Associated Press reported "A centrist Southern Baptist has been named the new editor of the Christian Index, the newspaper of the Georgia Baptist Convention..."



At the same time, Mississippi's Baptist Record reported: "Mohler Hired as editor of Georgia Christian Index". "Mohler said he is not a biblical inerrantist, but affirms inerrancy." [Huh?]


In 1990: "Baptists' Truce: Will it Last?", At "Georgia Baptists' annual meeting....The choice of the Rev. J. Truett Gannon...as president was a victory of the so-called moderate faction, which had supported him over the Rev. Bill Harrell...a representative of the conservative establishment."

The "'non-aligned center of the denomination is increasingly traumatized by divisiveness caused by either party,' said Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr., editor of the Christian Index, the Georgia Baptist newspaper."


In 1991: "Resisting Conservatives, Moderates Among Southern Baptists Set Up a Rival Group" [the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship].

"Dr. Albert Mohler, the editor of The Christian Index...said he had not endorsed either side in the quarrel." link, p.16

 

[Martin Marprelate]

1990/91 is a long time ago. I think maybe people have the right to change their views sometimes.
Just ask Paul.

 

[Marooncat79]

R Fuller needs to let it go. He needs to go on with his life/ministry.

Leave the anger and bitterness behind you at the Cross.

 

[Jerome]

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