AGC said:
Thought this would be a good thread to bump for the SBC scandal after their recent elections. Elected guy plagiarized sermons without attribution (from former president among others) and apparently he and the former SBC president used Docent Research Group? for help writing sermons. What a bizarre chain of events but perhaps fitting for Moore's choice since Moore himself forgot what the E part of ERLC stood for in attempting to release an 'October surprise' to get his preferred candidate elected.
Edit: Aggie related because central's lead pastor is the one that leaked the audio recordings from what I can tell from his public Twitter posts. I've been told he used to work for Russell Moore too (confirmed on his public church bio, seven years at the ERLC).
this has been my problem with Moore. I like his teaching for the most part. I like his focuses on adoption and scripture. I was more than happy for the SBC to divest itself from being an arm of the RNC.
However, this part of the leaked letter:
Quote:
The lazy journalistic assessment would be that this is about the President of the United States. This has nothing to do with that. Y'all know my concerns about the perennial temptation toward political captivity of the gospel, and that will always and perhaps increasingly be a concern in this era. But this is not the issue here. Most Trump voters and supporters have been nothing but kind and encouraging to me from Southern Baptist laypeople and pastors to Administration officials all the way up and down the ranks. Just as we did with President Obama, we express disagreement where warranted, but we do so respecting the office and doing so requesting a different viewpoint, not engaging in polemics or attack. And when we agree with what the Administration is doing, we say so and work to achieve good public policy as informed by a biblically-grounded ethic, again just as we did when we could under President Obama, and as I did, before I was in this role, with President Bush. The Administration has asked us to take leadership on too many issues to list here from working on opioid and mental health concerns in faith-based communities to ensuring religious liberty for adoption providers to working on the plight of persecuted Christians and other religious minorities in China and elsewhere.
I find to be patently dishonest from him.
I find that Moore never once seemed to trumpet the last administration's take on these issues where they lined up with the SBC's interest and he just lobbed bombs at Trump constantly. I, in no way, endorse Trump, but Moore just seemed like he wanted to slow creep the party to the DNC the way it was previously (in error) to the RNC.