Ex-Catholic Mike Pence
addressed the Southern Baptist Convention earlier this week and used that
pulpit to promote the political agenda of his secular lord, Donald Trump. The
one consolation in that sorry spectacle was that the previous day
some members of the SBC had courageously spoken out against having Pence speak,
and some 30% had supported that effort. Shortly after the Vice President's speech, the new
President of the SBC, J.D. Grear tweeted: "I know that sent a terribly
mixed signal. We are grateful for civic leaders who want to speak to our
Convention—but make no mistake about it, our identity is in the gospel and our
unity is in the Great Commission. Commissioned missionaries, not political
platforms, are what we do."
More pointedly, in a
speech earlier in the week, Grear had said: "We believe that Jesus is the
lord of the whole earth. He is the king of kings and he is the lord of lords.
We believe that he, not any version of Caesar, is the Messiah. He is the
Christ, the son of the living God, that salvation is found in him, not in the
Republican platform or the Democratic platform, and that salvation did not come
riding in on the wings of Air Force One. It came cradled in a manger."
That at least was a direct message and sent a somewhat clearer signal!
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