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Political violence is a feature, not a bug of progressivism.
Because progressivism is built on top of a Critical Theory lens that sees the world through "Oppressed vs Oppressor" categories rather than a Christian Theology lens of "Right vs Wrong", it trains people to see opponents not as mistaken, but as evil oppressors.
If you believe someone is mistaken, you try to persuade them (what @charliekirk11 did).
If you believe someone is an evil oppressor ("literally Hitler!", "fascist", "existential threat to democracy", virtually everything and everyone is "racist"), you will feel a moral obligation to stop them.
This is why there is radically disproportionate violence emerging on the Left.
Jason Gray retweeted
âThe Bible says to feed the poor.â
Them: âWeâve got to follow the Bible and do what Jesus said!â
âThe Bible says marriage is between one man and one woman.â
Them: âBigot! Handmaidâs Tale! Separation of church and state! Religious oppression!â
Jason Gray retweeted
Abortion is the sacrament of progressivesâ religion.
âThis is your body which I sacrifice for me.â
Jason Gray retweeted
Calling the Church to live out Christ's supremacy in every sphere of life and warning the world to repent before God's judgment falls *is* our lane.
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Vote to advance as much righteousness as possible, trust in the supremacy of Christ above all earthly powers, and remember that âhistory in its entirety and in its parts corresponds to the counsel of God and exhibits the glory of that counsel.â â Herman Bavinck
Jason Gray retweeted
More than 500 years ago, a monk named Martin Luther started a protest that exploded into a worldwide movement.
Watch as @RCSproul explains the Protestant Reformation. Share it with your family and friends.
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The consequences reach far beyond the baptismal font. The church cannot simply correspond to the population of a territory; natural birth cannot determine its boundaries; the ordinances cannot function as rites of incorporation into a sacral society; and the magistrate cannot police membership in Christâs kingdom. A gathered church, believerâs baptism, congregational responsibility, church discipline, and liberty of conscience belong together within a coherent theological vision.
This reframes the familiar historical objection. Baptists are often treated as an anomaly because recognizably Baptist churches emerged comparatively late against centuries of infant baptism and Christendom. However, chronology cannot determine normativity. The Reformation itself rests upon the conviction that antiquity and consensus, however weighty as historical witnesses, remain subordinate to the Word of God.
The Baptist claim is not that the church vanished for fifteen centuries and suddenly reappeared among Baptists, nor that everything associated with Christendom was corrupt. It is simply that no amount of historical normality can make normative what Scripture does not establish. If inherited patterns of church membership, sacramental practice, or civil-religious identity cannot be sustained from the apostolic witness, their antiquity cannot place them beyond reform.
The question, then, is not merely, âWhen did Christians become Baptists?â It is first, âWhat did Christ establish His church to be?â Only then can we determine whether Baptists are the anomaly to Christian history, or whether, at crucial points, Christian history had become the anomaly to Scripture.
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To be Baptist is about far more than who we baptize. At its theological center stands a particular conception of the people of God: the church is the New Covenant community called by the gospel, gathered by the Word, confessing Christ by faith, marked by baptism upon that profession, governed by Christ, and distinguished from the civil kingdoms among which it sojourns. Believerâs baptism is not an isolated Baptist peculiarity, but the visible expression of a much larger conviction about what the church is.
This is why the Baptist vision touches covenant theology, ecclesiology, the ordinances, church membership and discipline, liberty of conscience, and civil authority. If entrance into the New Covenant is not secured by natural generation, neither ancestry nor birth into a Christian society can constitute membership in its covenant community. If Christ gathers His church through the gospel, its boundaries are marked by credible profession rather than citizenship or parentage. If Christ alone is Lord of the conscience, the magistrate cannot create Christians, govern the church, or compel its confession. These are not unrelated Baptist distinctives, but consequences of a common understanding of Christâs New Covenant kingdom.
Baptism sits prominently within this vision because it marks who belongs to that visible community. Baptists do not merely take a generally Protestant ecclesiology and change the age of its baptismal subjects. Baptism belongs to those who profess the reality it signifies: union with Christ and entrance into the visible fellowship of His disciples. The baptismal question exposes a deeper disagreement about covenant membership and the constitution of the church.
Seen this way, the historical emergence of Baptist theology becomes easier to understand. The Reformation recovered biblical truths obscured beneath inherited ecclesiastical structures, yet the Magisterial Reformers retained significant elements of Christendom. Rome could be rejected while territorial churches, infant baptism, sacral society, and civil responsibility for religion remained. The Baptist recovery arose as these assumptions were themselves increasingly subjected to biblical scrutiny.
This does not mean Baptist theology was the inevitable final stage of the Reformation or that Baptists merely completed Luther and Calvinâs program. Rather, the reforming principle was applied to questions the first Reformers had not fully disentangled from Christendom: what happens when Scripture is permitted to define not only how sinners are justified and God is worshiped, but what the church itself is?
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Jason Gray retweeted
Godly, mature people "tend to be drama dampeners, not drama accelerators. Immature people love drama...And when we do that, we divide the saints."
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Unite 2026 is here! Swag bags, lanyards, and the merch store are set up and ready to go. We're excited for our biggest conference yet as over 1000 attendees registered for this year's event!
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Registration starts bright and early in the morning at 8:45AM at the Jacumin-Simpson building. We'll see you all there!
Jason Gray retweeted
Two top leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention have warned that we are facing an existential crisis, but differ about the nature of the threat.
The messengers will ultimately decide which threat we'd rather face.
Let me explain.
SBC President Willy Rice recently said the SBC could fall into a "chasm" of moral compromise if we do not clarify our position on women pastors. He said, this is "why I believe the Truth and Unity Amendment is so important."
This is an argument from conviction.
Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg recently warned that passing the Truth and Unity Amendment would open the door to hundreds of crippling lawsuits that would destroy the convention. He's afraid that clarifying our position on women pastors would cause the SBC to be sued into oblivion.
This is an argument from pragmatism.
So, who's right?
In my view, Willy Rice is right and Jeff Iorg is wrong.
Here's two reasons why I believe Iorg is wrong on this matter (this isn't personal; I'm disagreeing with his position).
First, his legal argument is incorrect. Attorney Jon Whitehead explain why on the Center for Baptist Leadership podcast a few days ago, listen to it yourself and make up your own mind (link in comments). Whitehead said we need not fear an avalanche of lawsuits if we pass the T&U amendment.
Second, even if Iorg were right about the lawsuits (he's not), then this is precisely the moment Christians should stand on conviction, not pragmatism.
The SBC exists to contend for and propagate our Christian convictions, not to run from them under threat of a lawsuit.
If the SBC does not have the courage to stand for the clear teaching of scripture, then what is the point of the SBC? Are we giving money to an organization that can get bullied by threats of litigation? That's not the SBC I know and love.
Ordinary Southern Baptists are courageous people, not cowards. Our entities should reflect that.
When faithful churches give their hard earned dollars to the Cooperative Program, they do so with the expectation to be funding their convictions, not mere self-preservation.
If we have to compromise God's word to save the SBC, then the SBC isn't worth saving.
That's what Willy Rice is warning about, and he's correct. This is a key issue for the future of our convention. The surface level issue is the Truth and Unity amendment. But the deeper issue is the need to stand for the truth of God's word even when it's not popular.
Willy Rice warned the "chasm" we're facing is filled with "the bones of a thousand gospel movements and institutions that were once vibrant and strong, but they are now empty institutional shells, tragic monuments to a once-great past."
Thus, the biggest threat to the SBC is a failure of nerve. We can't control lawsuits, but we can control our own faithfulness.
I'm confident Southern Baptists will make the right call in Indy next year.
Jason Gray retweeted
"Your homeschooled kids need socialization."
"They have 5 siblings and 17 cousins they hang out with a lot."
"Not like that."
"We go to church twice a week and they talk with all sorts of people."
"Not like that."
"They do intramural sports and play with all sorts of other kids."
"Not like that."
"There are lots of kids in the neighborhood and at the local park they interact with."
"Not like that."
"Our homeschool co-op meets once per week, with parents rotating as teachers."
"Not like that."
"Ok. So...what do you mean by socialization then?"
"You need to send them away every single day to sit with children their own age for 6 hours. And let me teach them with no supervision from you."
"Oh. No thanks."
Jason Gray retweeted
Billions of people are lost around the worldâwhy would we care to talk about something like qualified elders? Because the Bible does. It really is that simple.Â
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90%+ SBC churches average < 150 in weekly attendance.
They're vital to our partnerships & our mission.
Join us 10/26 before @_SBTC annual meeting for reinforcement from @pillarnetwork's Director of Pastoral Care & @NAMB_SBC's Replant Director.
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If you are a pastor in the Texas area planning to attend the SBTC, you are invited to come to Feed My Sheep and be encouraged with good preaching and fellowship!
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I'm thankful for @AndrewTWalker. I too wholeheartedly disavow the cesspool of resentment, nativism, and pugilism that often presents itself under the guise of CN.
I also find it rather foolish to divide from other Christians over secondary and tertiary matters like political theology. Most of my peers probably share Walker's exact views. And I would gladly pastor alongside many of them.
What I fear Walker fails to acknowledge is the development of Christianity in the history of cultures. The moral climate of England looked radically different in 1650 than it did in 1450. Different still in 1850 than it did in 1650. A person doesn't need an over-realized eschatology to recognize how Christianity radically changed the Roman Empire in the space of a few centuries. I think many of those who aspire to a more thorough Christian establishment are more patient than he realizes.
This perspective strikes me as a far too pessimistic and historically incomplete understanding of cultural/spiritual/political revival.
Fifteen years ago, I considered a post-Roe America unimaginable in my lifetime. The positive, state-sponsored, manifestly Christ-honoring elements of Charlie Kirk's memorial were also unthinkable. Yet they happened. We have seen cultures move from paganism to promoting Christianity as the one true religion many times over the centuries. Why can't a secular nation do the same?
Eager to seem more thoughtful, robust debate with good brothers like Walker.
Michael Scott thought he could declare bankruptcy by yelling it across the office.
A lot of the Christian nationalism conversation works the same way: Say it loud enough, post about it often enough, and surely it becomes real.
It doesn't.
I explain why the Christian nationalism conversation has run its course in my latest @WNGdotorg column.
wng.org/opinions/michael-scoâŠ
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âNone of these achievements matter unless they are helping Southern Baptists get the gospel to more lost people.â â IMB President, @DrPaulChitwood
Missionary applications are up 500% since 2018.
15,000 volunteers are being sent annually.
Close to 400 global missionary partners have joined IMB teams.
The purpose behind the progress remains the same: getting the gospel to more people.
