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Joined November 2012
Important thread about the importance of maintaining professional ethics & why it matters for pastors/leaders who hold influential positions within dominations & have journalistic connections. This is exactly the current problem with @edstetzer, @jamesmacdonald, & @CTmagazine
Abusive leaders who accumulate excess privilege will often use that excess to purchase favors from friends. Perhaps they have friends in media who can give them access to their platforms. They use their excess to gain access at the expense of others. Take Enron for example:
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This is a crime. This is a pastor who used his position to groom & sexually abuse an underage girl. This was not properly dealt with as the police were not called, & charges were not filed. This man is unfit to be in the pulpit & anyone keeping him there is an enabler of abuse.
Replying to @watchkeep
In an email to Gateway Church staff, elders & Robert Morris confirmed the survivor Cindy’s story. He admits to sexually abusing her & doesn’t deny that he offered her money in exchange for her silence. She was 12 years old when the abuse began. That’s a child not a “young lady.”
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Example of the toxicity in the SBC and the fertile soil in which abuse is tolerated, covered up, & enabled. This tweet attempts to gaslight, shame, & dispel rightful criticism of unacceptable behavior in any context. The manipulation to protect the powerful is utterly repulsive.
I deleted after I got more context on the photo. It was Jerry, so I was wrong. It was a photo taken out of context of the other photos w/ it. Did you know that? What it was was being used to imply is ungodly & seems to have been posted out of context for that reason.
This right here, folks. There are a lot of very narcissistic pastors who care more about exalting themselves than serving as shepherds. Don’t listen to such voices because unless they repent, they lead only to turmoil, strife, and destruction. You will know them by their fruit.
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Replying to @SBCExecComm
@SBCExecComm @baptistpress does this represent the attitude of the executive committee towards pastors and leaders within the SBC? Is this the “spirit of cooperation” that is talked so often about? Odd, to me, this seems pretty arrogant, condescending, and all around atrocious.
I bet your schtick works on the preachers. Wrong guy.
Yikes! If this counts as “leadership” in the SBC, there certainly are significant problems that are far from being addressed or rectified. No wonder the SBC is in a tailspin. The way of Christ has nothing to do with lawyers on retainers or implied threats from men with power.
Funny you should say that. I have three entire law firms on retainer. All the time. I bet Bradly doesn’t. I bet these other guys don’t either. Perhaps the Twitter mob would stop going after people who can’t fight back if someone who can did.
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In regards to women preaching, the evidence is really overwhelming towards one side.
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Oh, snap! That’s straight 🔥🔥🔥🔥, right there.
Two Baptist groups who protest when girls refuse to submit to the boys and get too mouthy: 1. Southern Baptist Convention 2. Westboro Baptist Church
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Let’s be clear: this is not of God. This is evil behavior. There will not be revival in the church, until leaders of churches who have participated in this filth of covering for abuse and punishing those seeking truth humble themselves, repent, and resign. @MattChandler74
During a meeting with ⁦@MattChandler74⁩ and two board members to discuss the 2015 letter, all five were fired and asked to sign non-disclosure agreements as a condition of their severance packages. They were shocked. ⁦@Acts29⁩ christianitytoday.com/news/2…
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“I do from my inmost soul detest slavery... and although I commune at the Lord's table with men of all creeds, yet with a slave-holder I have no fellowship of any sort or kind.” -C. Spurgeon I’m sure, though, he didn’t mean ‘biblical’ slavery because that’s completely different.
Replying to @edstetzer
@edstetzer is not the person who should be commenting on John Crist. His position to speak into abuses & ethical breaches by leaders is negated by his own ethical breach involving MacDonald & @CTmagazine. His unwillingness to address his own unethical behavior is very troubling.
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No speedy trial for Paige Patterson’s ‘break her down’ lawsuit bit.ly/32xJTPu via @baptist_news
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Words of a false prophet & a wolf in sheep’s clothing seeking to devour the sheep. It’s beyond me how any religious leader could endorse such a false teacher. Evangelicalism is selling itself to the gods of power, wealth, & celebrity. @Franklin_Graham @robertjeffress @jackngraham
Presidential spiritual adviser Paula White says Christians "are mandated by God" to send thousands of dollars to help Jim Bakker build a new TV studio and their donations will be counted by "a Department of Treasury in Heaven" that will determine their eternal reward.
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