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SBC Outpost » Blog Archive » Resolution on Attacking Wade Burleson Alcohol Abuse
Marty Duren of SBCOutpost has an interesting take on the alcohol amendment that was presented at the Southern Baptist Convention today in Greensboro, NC. He believes it is an attack against Wade Burleson, who on his own site said to be careful of making such an accusation. I found this quote by Marty most telling…
What is really, really crazy is that we refused to consider the resolution on Integrity in Church Membership that Tom Ascol tried to submit.
Which, oddly enough, puts us in the position of being on record as against any use of beverage alcohol, but open to the idea of lying about how many people are actual members of our churches.
Wade commented on this post by Marty…
Good observation on the irony of refusing to speak out by resolution on the brilliant resolution offered by Ascol on integrity in reporting by refusing to lie about the numbers of church members.
What compounds our collective moral lapse of judgment in refusing to address this issue in our churches is the fact that every messenger was sober when they voted.
Finally, the most bizarre sentence I have ever heard in 21 years of attending Southern Baptist Conventions was offered by a member of the Resolutions Committee in defending the decision not to allow the Convention to vote on Ascol’s resolution. In essence the member said we could not remove from our church membership rolls those missing members because we would lose the very people we needed to evanglize.
Is there any other Baptist besides me who wants to cry over that statement?
But blog world, don’t despair. The debate on these issues is healthy — and at least there is debate occurring.
Why would people not want to vote on the membership motion? In the words of two other commentors…
If they’re so concerned about losing the very people we need to evangelize, how hard would it be to take them off the membership list and put them on the prayer list or the “holy hit list.”
As best as I can tell, it would be as simple as cut-copy-paste.
I know that cut-copy-paste might be a concept that’s just a little too technical for the crowd that thinks there’s “too much bloggin’ goin’ on out there,” but I’m willing to conduct my three day, Cut-Copy-Paste seminar in every SBC church across the country if it will help. The weekend retreat would look something like this:
Introductory Session: “Optical Mice & Church Discipline - A Match Made in Heaven”
Breakout seminar #1: “Cutting”
Breakout seminar #2: “Copying”
Breakout seminar #3: “Pasting”
Concluding Session: “You Drag, You’re Dropped”
and
“Cut-Copy-Paste” seminars - thats hilarious!
Pre “Cut-Copy-Paste” Seminar SBC Total Membership - 16,000,000
Post “Cut-Copy-Paste” Seminar SBC Total Membership - 9,000,000
I am sure someone is scared that if we had to report the numbers more accurately we would lose political power. In my view that would be okay. The gospel empowered by the Holy Spirit is what can really affect this nation.
