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The entire gospel in two minutes from Voddie Baucham. “Until one day, when it’s all said and done, we’re not just saved from the penalty of sin. We’re not just saved from the power of sin. But one day, we’re glorified and saved from the very presence of sin. That’s the gospel that we preach! That’s the gospel that we need! And that’s the gospel that’s more than enough!” Today was that day for Voddie. When he preached this, he saw by faith. Now, Voddie sees by sight—glorified with Christ forever and eternally free from the penalty, power, and presence of sin.
Center for Baptist Leadership171,811 次观看 • 9 个月前
![As secular, corporate America embarked on a coordinated, illegal, and sinful discrimination campaign against white American men, so too did JD Greear and other woke SBC elites. Here, he boasts about discriminating against white men in his committee appointments, all but claiming they have no rule in the “future” of America’s largest Protestant denomination and that their “wisdom” is not welcome. “One of my main roles [as SBC President] is to appoint people on committees…Of all the appointments I’ve made, two-thirds are either women or people of color. I do that for two reasons: One, that really is the future…; Two, we need their wisdom.” As the article below points out, it wasn’t older white men who suffered. Greear never “gave up power.” Instead, he used his power to box out faithful, young, white Southern Baptist men and pastors in the next generation.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2000714843586809864/amplify_video_thumb/2000714781821374468/img/uNvG2O6UKQynM8DH.jpg)
As secular, corporate America embarked on a coordinated, illegal, and sinful discrimination campaign against white American men, so too did JD Greear and other woke SBC elites. Here, he boasts about discriminating against white men in his committee appointments, all but claiming they have no rule in the “future” of America’s largest Protestant denomination and that their “wisdom” is not welcome. “One of my main roles [as SBC President] is to appoint people on committees…Of all the appointments I’ve made, two-thirds are either women or people of color. I do that for two reasons: One, that really is the future…; Two, we need their wisdom.” As the article below points out, it wasn’t older white men who suffered. Greear never “gave up power.” Instead, he used his power to box out faithful, young, white Southern Baptist men and pastors in the next generation.
Center for Baptist Leadership84,817 次观看 • 6 个月前
Pastor Erik Reed boldly putting an end to the "both sides" arguments we've seen from many Christians over the last few weeks and calling out the Democrats for being at war with "creational reality." "We are living in a world where there are two different visions for what kind of society we want to live in. And if Christ is not in the foundations of what we're doing with our vision for the future, if the Christian foundation and worldview that made our country great to begin with is not there, and everybody's just doing what's right in their own eyes, you can guarantee chaos will ensue. We are choosing between two distinct futures. They are not the same. Our two political parties in our country are not morally equivalent to each other... I am not baptizing the Republican Party. They did not come from Mount Sinai on high from God to say 'Thus saith the Lord.' But the current state of the Democratic Party, as they are...they are a party at war with creational realities every day. Creational realities. They are at war about what it means to be a man or a woman, about marriage, about sexuality, about who has the right to live in a womb. They are at war with life and prosperity. There is one side in particular with a progressive ideology that not only tried to suppress the story of the young woman in Charlotte, but who celebrated, both in the media and with college professors and many others, the death of a man whose beliefs they did not hold... And if you're more concerned with what I've just said in the last two or three minutes, about sounding partisan, than you are concerned about the reality of what's actually happening in our society right now, you have lost the plot."
Center for Baptist Leadership105,515 次观看 • 9 个月前
The ERLC made this video, starring SEBTS President Danny Akin, telling white Christians to: 1) “Listen” to minorities ABOVE ALL THINGS 2) Surrender power Interestingly, neither Leatherwood nor Akin have “surrendered” their position of leadership to a “minority”
Center for Baptist Leadership128,943 次观看 • 1 年前
“In this day and hour, one of the ways you can measure the biblical fidelity of a preacher is not just by what he will say—but by some of the things he won’t say. There are churches all across the southeast and literally from coast to coast…you let a criminal die in police custody, and they’ll get coffee mugs and t-shirts and lead the protests. But you let a Christian commentator get assassinated by a sex pervert and they are as quiet as a church mouse.” Mike Stone bringing the heat 🔥
Center for Baptist Leadership67,690 次观看 • 8 个月前
“For more than a year, then, the letters show that there wasn't a little angel in the driver's seat for Dr. Moore. In the driver's seat was cold blooded, premeditated revenge against his enemies in the SBC.” The first episode of the Center for Baptist Leadership podcast with Jon Whitehead is now live and available on all major podcast platforms! This is one of the most important, exclusive interviews about the SBC this year, and we are thankful Jon brought it to CBL. Here are his opening remarks: “We are probably in about year four or five of a SBC leadership crisis. And so one of the reasons I've joined with others at CBL is because I do think there has been a ‘big bang’ in the SBC that blew things up in 2021. And we need some leadership to get on the other side of that. And the key to understanding the ‘big bang,’ the reason there has been a crisis, is to understand what happened in 2021 with respect to the ERLC and Dr. Moore's letters. People were so outraged by what they thought the letter said, and by the accusations in them, that I think there was lots of quick action. But now that we've had some time to look at the facts, to gather the facts, I hope we can take a more careful view of what actually happened. But the first step to understanding the crisis of leadership is to understand that there were two letters from Russell Moore published just before the 2021 SBC annual meeting. They were dated more than a year apart. And the best explanation for the facts is that they show a plan. A plan not to put victims first, not to be a fiduciary, not to protect the weak, not to do justice. They show a months-long plan to hurt the Southern Baptist Convention as much as he could. To whip up messengers using old fashioned southern demagoguery, so they lose trust in the convention and pick up their torches and pitchforks, metaphorically, at the annual meeting. For more than a year, then, the letters show that there wasn't a little angel in the driver's seat for Dr. Moore. In the driver's seat was cold blooded, premeditated revenge against his enemies in the SBC. And so once you understand the context of the letters, you begin to understand the magnitude of the leadership crisis we have in the SBC.” Find it here:
Center for Baptist Leadership139,403 次观看 • 2 年前
What’s wrong with so much of our SBC leadership? Willy Rice says they’ve forgotten that “Billy Baptist” matters. “Jerry Vines used to talk about Billy Baptist in his great sermon, ‘A Baptist and his Bible.’ And he created a character of the ordinary Baptist layman or pastor. I think some of our leaders have forgotten about Billy Baptist. Okay, sure, you dunked on some guy at a microphone and made yourself look good. Is that what we want to be? Doesn't that Pastor matter? Shouldn't his question be taken seriously? Should we really want to make fun of him, is that what we want to do? I think that's the problem. We've got to get back to where that guy at that microphone matters.”
Center for Baptist Leadership72,889 次观看 • 1 年前
The rise of women pastors in the SBC is the biggest theological crisis we've faced since the Conservative Resurgence. If left unresolved, it will destroy us What will it take to fix it? David Schrock🌲 says 1) Courage, 2) Clarity, and 3) Leaders who are willing to tell women "No."
Center for Baptist Leadership20,961 次观看 • 3 个月前
“There are really good pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention that are good at avoiding controversy. We're not in that time. We have controversy. We need somebody that can handle controversy and knows how to resolve it. The problem is not ‘lack of encouragement in the SBC.’ The problem is shying away from criticism and disagreement. And so Willy seems to me to be the man for this hour.” Jon Whitehead on why Willy Rice is the right man to lead the SBC next.
Center for Baptist Leadership14,186 次观看 • 4 个月前
Watch as pastor Lewis Richerson gets repeatedly interrupted while speaking at the East Baton Rouge Library Board in defense of another pastor, Luke Ash, who was recently fired from his job at the library for refusing to use fake “trans” pronouns! Pastor Ash’s firing was religious discrimination, plain and simple. As Richerson stated, “Luke Ash…was fired for refusing to use pronouns that conflict with his Christian convictions. He did not mistreat or disrespect anyone. He simply could not, in good conscience, speak in a way that violates his faith. Let's be clear. Public dollars should not fund ideological coercion or religious discrimination.” Richerson, of Woodlawn Baptist Church, is helping lead a charge to rally other area pastors in defense of Ash and demanding that he be reinstated. This is a great example of Baptist leadership in the public square!
Center for Baptist Leadership25,716 次观看 • 11 个月前
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says “common sense is back,” which means: “No more social justice. No more political correctness. No more toxic ideological garbage…No more identity months. No more DEI offices…No more climate change worship.” When will this return of common sense come to the SBC? The list of nonsense Hegseth provides here could be used to describe most SBC entries over the last decade as well. DEI, CRT, social justice, political correctness, and even climate change worship has been embraced by our seminaries and other entities. But if our government can do this, Southern Baptists should be able to do this as well. It’s time to stop coddling unbiblical and divisive wokeness and lead with truth!
Center for Baptist Leadership16,613 次观看 • 7 个月前
ERLC trustee Jon Whitehead says the problem with the entity is that they aren’t telling the truth to Southern Baptists. “Like I said, the problem is the truth. Are we going to be authentic to Southern Baptists and earn their trust? Or are we going to try to razzle dazzle them and say Brent Leatherwood has personally defunded Planned Parenthood? That's just not the reality. I'm glad Planned Parenthood appears to have been defunded because of the hard work of Congress and the hard work of voters and the hard work of the President, and I have no doubt Southern Baptists would support it. But it had nothing to do with the ERLC’s efforts.”
Center for Baptist Leadership21,439 次观看 • 1 年前
Fielder Church in Texas has the exact same egalitarian convictions & practice as Saddleback That’s not a debatable question. It’s a fact The only question is what will the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention and the SBC do about it Marc Minter explains the stakes in the next CBL podcast, releasing today
Center for Baptist Leadership15,159 次观看 • 8 个月前
“Amen! That’s what I’m talking about. Michael Clary, amen and amen brother. If young men are walking into your doctrinally sound ‘inoffensive’ churches, what they are going to see is cowardice.” Thank you to Nick Freitas for reading an entire CBL article by Michael Clary on Charlie Kirk vs the Christian Elites on his recent podcast!
Center for Baptist Leadership14,337 次观看 • 8 个月前
