SBC Pres. Seeks Input on New Name for Denomination

Did I just read that right, the SBC is going away? Well can you beat that! Man that news just made my ..... oh wait, they're just changing their name. Never mind, just wishful thinking on my part.

 

Don't worry, it will still only actually exist for 2 days a year....:thumbs:

 

So wishful thinking that the 5,000 IMB missionaries would also go away? Or maybe the seminaries? Or maybe the disaster relief?

Glad you'll be pleased if the SBC goes away.

 

Tom, check out his profile. He's not SBC but a member of the haters from that break away convention in Texas.

 

I'd prefer that they keep the same name.

A rant: For those of you in SBC churches who hate the SBC, please leave. Start your own group. Take your money and leave. Cut all ties with the SBC. Go ahead. But leave the rest of us alone! (please)

Rant over. Continue about your business.

 

Yes, I would like eliminate part but not all. I would like to see go away the promotion of male superiority in the home and in the church, the elevation of the record of the revelation to equal status with the actual Revelation, the signing of creeds as a condition of employment and busybodies investigating what goes on in someones private prayer time and the promotion of Republican politics by the convention by getting rid of Land and his minions, just to name a few.

Seminaries, well closing them all seems extreme. I would settle for firing the presidents, changing the locks on their doors and escorting them off campus.

Disaster relief can stay.

Correction, the BGCT didn't break away from anything, read the history.

Question, there are 5,000 actual full-time SBC missionaries on the field? Would love to see how that number is figured because it seems to be fantastically exaggerated.

Fellas, don't forget my bitterness runs deep, I could do this all day!

The SBC hosts a two day business meeting, true, but also is doing business the rest of the year. Let's not be naive about what actually happens and how things get done.

 

I'm not fan of the SBC, but it sounds like you need to do what your name says and go to church. Try listening a bit while you are there.

 

yes, your bitterness runs deep. Maybe you ought to read what the Bible says about bitterness.

You're right, the number of 5,000 is wrong. There are actually more.

Nice to know you have decided how the SBC ought to be run... Bitterness is always the best way to run an organization... ooops, sorry, it's bitterness is the best way to RUIN an organization or a person.

 

Submissive
Baptist
Churches
Since they are submissive to the National organization.

 

Who is submissive to what?

 

Where do you see them promoting male superiority in the home?
Scripture says wives submit to your own husbands as in the Lord, that is submission in the spiritual things and that is what they advocated. Woman have had and always will have a say in the business affairs of the church. They are on an equal plain in that respect. In the home she is to submit to a Godly husband in the things of the Lord, again they are equal in the other parts of their marriage. You evidently here submit and have a problem submitting to God and His or maybe His is the wrong word for you Its (God's) word.

 

Well, I'll agree with you partly...

-Male Superiority: My wife is definitely superior to me, but she thinks the Bible says I'm supposed to lead her, so I guess I'll try to do that.
-Revelation: That debate could go on forever. We do have to decide sometime what we will accept as God's recorded truth.
-Creeds: every institution make sure there is some level of agreement before hiring you.
-Private prayer: agreed, none of their business.
-Politics: agreed, They need to stop passing resolutions that don't do anything other than alienate democrats.

 

So passing a resolution that they want to fight the spread of abortion alienates Democrats and is political in your eyes? Or passing resolutions that say we will only support Candidates that will seek God's will in what they do alienates Democrats? Sounds like if that person is a Christian and a Democrat they are alienated from God's word anyway.

 

This so is funny. Man, do I know just what buttons to push or what?

The SBC defenders come out swinging, go to church, make your wife submit or you aren't following the Bible, you're just going to ruin things.

If anyone really thinks a name change is going to help the SBC be more relatable, fit in better, grow churches or see more converts then they are the ones with the problem, not me.

 

No, and no, but those resolutions don't actually do anything...and there have been others more irrelevant...I'm remembering a disney boycot...?

-You seem to have something against Democrats...I can't tell...

We should fight abortion, but most of what separates Dems & Reps is Economical and how one views the constitution...not Things cut and dry in scriptures.

We have a very Godly democrat in our SBC church who is on the board of the local Christian pregnancy resource center (a place that opposes abortion, and helps women make the choice for life, if you aren't familiar with these).

I (as a republican, by the way), have no biblical grounds for saying this man is "alienated from God's word."

 

So the congress defunding the Planned Parenthood abortion mill that the Republicans pushed and the Democrats supported should have remianed in funding. Even though we have a law that says the Government will not fund abortions. Yet the Democrats want to keep funding it. Let's talk economic differences the Democrats want to ensure every American is hit by higher taxation on the rich by raising taxes on them so they raise the price of their goods. The Republicans want to lower taxes so the rich will have more to create jobs with and thus putting the poor and middle class back to work.
But we digress from the subjuect of the OP.
The SBC advocates supports for Godly candidates whether Democrat or Republican if they will follow Gods word then we should vote for them. I don't find too many Democrats that fit that criteria most advocate the global warming lie. Support the faith of evolution.
So just what resolutions do you not like? The resolution do some good they send a message that we oppose this and if you support it we will not support you.

 

I see nothing wrong with the name SBC standing for Southern Baptist Convention.
Oh, and some folks need to educate themselves the SBC is a meeting of many Baptist believing churches that have many things in common tho they are autonomous. The SBC is NOT a denomination.

 

Whatever gave you this idea? This so far from truth. Every SBC church I have EVER been a part of, like almost EVERY baptist church was completely autonomous.

 

yes, as they might be cooperating/in fellowship with each other as a group, but NO national headquarters telling them what to teach/prech/worship/bible etc!

Contrast that with denominations like methodist/Lutheryn etc, where each of their churches might be teaching same subject and verse onn each Sunday!

 

Since the conservative resurgence was successful within the SBC, what about changing the name to the Conservative Baptist Convention? This name would not sound like it only represents a part of the country as the name Southern Baptist Convention does.