Al Mohler Gives SBC The Finger

June 13, 2007

Straight from the Annual Meeting of the SBC in San Antone, Wade Burleson writes…

These four men, led by Dr. Mohler today, gave to our convention the proverbial finger and said, “We do not care that you have told us the Baptist Faith and Message is the only consensus confession of the Southern Baptist Convention and is sufficient to guide us. We will draft any confessional statement, policy or guideline we desire because the hiring of seminary professors is critical to the future health of the SBC and the Baptist Faith and Message ‘does not say enough’ doctrinally to give us good hiring policies and guidelines.”

Paige Patterson has already recommended to friends the disbanding of the SBC Executive Committee. Chuck Kelley said last night the adoption of the Executive Statement would have no effect on his institution and Richard Land has already angrily chastized two gracious SBC theologians who wrote an excellent book on grace and unity around the essentials and freedom in diversity on the nonessentials - a book given to all registered messengers in our SBC packet. These four men might best be considered as the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse of the Southern Baptist Convention.