Wade Burleson, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Enid, Oklahoma, has resigned as a trustee of the SBC's International Mission Board. He apologized to the board for publicly expressing conscientious differences that he has had with their actions, but the board refused to accept his apology.
Thousands of Baptists have appreciated Burleson's principled stands against certain unconscionable actions of the IMB's trustee board. We are sorry to see him resign.
By nature, fundamentalism brooks no dissent. The clear intent of the board's action is to arrest any questioning of their dictates and to terrorize any potential dissenters.
I am glad to learn that Burleson will continue his blogging.
I hope he will consider letting someone nominate him for the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention.
It is time for Southern Baptists to elect someone committed to conscientiously following the guidance of the Holy Spirit, rather than walking lockstep with the aging fundamentalist oligarchs who have ruled over the SBC since 1979.
2 comments:
I rejoice that they refused to accept his apology. He had nothing to apologize for in the first place, but by doing so exibited Christian behavior by turning the other cheek. This dimonstrates even more vividly the unChristian response of the board.
My goodness! What hateful speech! Instead of a brother who simply disagrees with you, we SBC believers are all lumped together as "walking lockstep with the aging fundamentalist oligarchs"! You and your followers' concept of an unChristian response is fully on view in the original response to this article. Many of us are praying for the Celebration of the new baptist covenant, but I cannot imagine anyone expecting a "spiritual message" from Bill Clinton. May God bless your efforts.
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