June 30, 2021 Show with Josh Buice on “The Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting: What Happened?”

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And I'm always excited to have my friend Josh Bice on the program. He is pastor of Praise Mill Baptist Church of Douglasville, Georgia and founder and president of G3 Ministries. Today we are going to be addressing the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, What Happened?, and we're going to be continuing to announce and promote the G3 Conference 2021 in Atlanta.

And it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Pastor Josh Bice.

Glad to be with you, Chris.

Josh Bice on Pray’s Mill Baptist Church, G3 Ministries, and the G3 Conference

Well, if you could, let our listeners know about Praise Mill Baptist Church of Douglasville, Georgia.

Sure, it's 179-year-old, the city of Atlanta, Georgia. My privilege is to serve as pastor here. My wife and I grew up here as children, met here in the context of the church, and after being away state and searching for gospel ministry, it was a privilege and honor to be called back home to serve as the pastor of our home church.

So I've been here about 11 years now, and the context of this ministry that G3 was founded and started on the campus of our local church.

And is this congregation affiliated with any denomination or fellowship or association?

Yes, Chris, we are actually affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. We predate this, but we have been a part of the SBC for a very long time. And you are theologically reformed when it comes to soteriology?

Absolutely, and as well as ecclesiology.

Great. Well, if anybody wants to find out more about Praise Mill Baptist Church of Douglasville, Georgia, you can go to praisemill .com. Now tell us about G3 Ministries.

Yeah, Chris, so G3 Ministries is a ministry that I founded back in 2013. It was actually just started off as a conference, and it was intended to be just a smaller local theology conference to stand out as distinct and as something that people could know when we explain what it is, that it's a theology conference, not really a second nature, but more theological in nature.

And so the very beginning could not fit everyone into our church building that first year, and then that repeated for about four years before we finally moved to the conference. And from that point on, we have never returned back to the local church campus simply because of the vast numbers of people who want to come to the G3 conference.

We've seen dramatic growth in the conference, but the content producing ministry that also we have a biennial in 2023. I have the national conversation about that in the days to.

Come. I am excited to be attending my fourth G3 conference, September 30th through October 2nd. I will be manning an exhibitor's booth there again, as you know, and the theme is Christ is supreme over all.

And the lineup, as always, is absolutely extraordinary. We've got Stephen Lawson, Conrad Mbewe, who happens to be my favorite preacher on the planet Earth. Paul Washer, John MacArthur, Anthony Mathenia, Hensworth Jonas, Mike Riccardi, Justin Peters, Joel Beakey, Phil Johnson, Nathan Busenitz, James White, Bob Calflin, Devon Calflin, David Miller.

The Photo Sisters will be joining Bob Calflin with providing the music, Daryl Bernard Harrison, and Virgil Walker. That is a mind-blowing lineup. And, of course, you will be preaching. You are just as powerful as any of these men, as far as your preaching gifts are concerned.

If you want to say something more about the theme and what kind of subtitles might be underneath that umbrella theme of Christ is supreme above all.

Yeah, so Chris, we have us on Christ and biblical Christology, but also that theme being deity of Christ to the suffering of Christ on the cross, to the atonement, to the resurrection. Yesterday's sermons, one will be focused on Golgotha, and then his final sermon of the conference, which will be the last sermon on Saturday, will be on the light of the resurrection.

Come together, worship under the banner of the gospel, to sing the gospel, to preach the gospel, to unity. I must say, pre-conference as well, there's going to be a Spanish version. Interested in and try to attend that, especially if you're serving in pastoral ministry, and just sit under the teaching of these brothers who are being a shepherd.

And Dr. John MacArthur and others from the Master Seminary will be teaching on that day, that full day, which is Wednesday preceding the G3. So, wonderful opportunities. And we'll also be having, and he's not on there yet, but taking up your...say enough about seed 6000, which will be.

Another record number for G3. Praise God. Well, now I'm even more excited hearing that description, because I have always personally been blessed beyond description every time I'm there, not only from hearing and seeing the gifted speakers proclaim the Word of God, and fellowshipping with a number of them and a number of the visitors or attendees, but also just the way that my radio program has benefited so greatly from being present there.

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But if anybody wants more information, and hopefully we'll remember to repeat this later. In fact, we definitely will, because our ads will be giving this information, but I'll give it to you anyway. It's g3conference .com, g3conference .com, and also g3min .org, g3min .org.

Those are the two websites to find out more details. And let me give our listeners our email address, if you would like to join us on the air with a question for Pastor Bice about the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting, and what happened, and even other general questions that you might have regarding the Southern Baptist Convention, regarding theology, doctrine, the scriptures, etc.

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The Purpose and Procedure of the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting

So, tell us exactly what this recent Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting was intended to accomplish, some of the prominent people that were in attendance,.

And of course, what happened there. Yeah, 47 ,000, and it's an annual meeting in Alabama, and then last year for COVID, it was, and year to year, the location will change, but the annual meeting is typically the second week of June every year, and the purpose of the convention is to come together for two days to accomplish basically a very large, so I know that that sounds like, you know, as far as, you know, how much fun it would be being held in.

We'll attend the annual Southern Baptist Convention, and the purpose of that meeting is to accomplish business on behalf of the Southern Baptist Convention churches, the churches that give money each year.

Basically, I mean, there are various different ways to give money to the cooperative program, and then you have, beyond the cooperative program, you have the missions offering, national mission board, foreign missions, and tribute.

All of the money that's given by these churches, that involves a couple of main things. Theological education, and if you're giving money to the SBC, colleges, or the city, as well as that actually take a series of missionaries.

So, what takes, and the heads of these entities, like the presidents of seminaries, come. You also have that leads the Southern Baptist Convention, and they give a report. It is in baptism. How many, how many dollars are being given to education, and how many, and how many local churches of the convention.

These two days, you hear, you have the vice president, and you have second vice presidents that make up the SBC calendar year. Those two days, you will all bring a certain presentation, people to go to a microphone, and they offer up amendments, and then, you know, amendment, or a non-friendly, a couple of days, and things together, and then at the close day, evening, the very next year, and that's basically, so technically, here's a fun fact.

Considered to be the largest Protestant denomination in the world, but technically on paper, the SBC two days,.

Every calendar year. Well, I know that this last meeting was a very controversial meeting, and has upset many people in the Southern Baptist Convention, and that's putting it mildly. If you could address some of the major themes that you want to discuss today, and what the outcomes.

Were. Yes, so I think some of the causing controversy going into this convention was, number one, presidential election. There's very much SBC churches, and so for that reason, there was a massive grant, attended the SBC, and make up the SBC to the annual meeting, and pre-registered messengers, change, actually were in the room for the voting session for the president.

Wow. A massive take in attendance, and in fact, it was the most since 1995, and the reason is because of the controversy dating back to 2019 in Birmingham, Alabama, when nine were debate from the, so at the end of the day, the SBC adopted critical race theory, and a massive bombshell to come back to the Kate on that issue.

Part of that was a desire to draw a line in the sand, and say, here's where we stand on these issues. To do that was to present the SBC. Recognizable name would be, and then you had Mike, and then you had Ed Litton, who is actually a pastor in Alabama region, and was a to say, we're going to president, and then of course, it's really what called coming out as president, and then what we did or did not actually, and we're.

Going to have you pick up right where you left off with that cliffhanger there, when we come back from our first station break. If anybody wants to join us on the air, again, our email address is chrisarnsen at gmail .com, chrisarnsen, C-H-R-I-S-A-R-N-Z-E-N at gmail .com.

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And today we are addressing a very timely and controversial theme, the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting, What Happened? And we're also continuing to promote the G3 Conference this fall. Well, Pastor Josh, tell us who was elected and what is the opinion of like-minded brethren in the Southern Baptist Convention over this update?

Sure. So the convention to be nominated.

For the presidency, Albert Mueller, Ed Litton, Mike Stone, when we got to the voting session on Tuesday, ballot one, the results were brought back to the convention. As going into this voting session, we anticipated that Al Mueller would probably vote on ballot one, but probably no candidate would carry more than 50 of the votes, a runoff.

But interestingly enough, the conservative candidate on the list, Mike Stone, was the one who led the way on ballot one. Followed behind him was Ed Litton and Albert Mueller, and then behind him was Randy Adams.

Now what that means is that Mueller missed the runoff. So now you have on ballot two, Mike Stone and Ed Litton. Now what happened at this point was right then, if you looked at Twitter and social media, two main hashtags during the convention, one was hashtag SBC21, and the other was hashtag SBC2021.

And if you just followed those hashtags, you started to notice the elite within the SBC network, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ed Litton, so engaging in politics. The controversy is this.

Ed Litton... Now I didn't even know that the Southern Baptist.

Convention permitted that egalitarian leadership. Well, so the way that they get around it is that.

There's a debate that's in the SBC on the... Right now, presently, he flies under the radar. His wife does not hold... Engaging in the functionality of what a pastor does, namely preaching... Ordained to the...

Flying under... In that way. So interestingly enough, you have Mike Stone election, and you have Ed Litton, who is probably the most on that list, at least openly so, and striking to see men like Danny Akin, happy to take about $8 million from the Southern Baptist churches every year to help fund his seminary, to train his seminary, who are then saying, elect Ed Litton, he's going to serve us best.

So in other words, here's a man who says, I want to take your money to train your young, and I want them to look to that guy as the example for the Southern Baptist Convention. That's astounding to me.

And yet, it worked, because what happened is during that runoff, Ed Litton actually beat Mike Stone percent of the votes, which basically there was about 600 votes separating the two candidates. And so it was an amazing scene to watch, controversial, and so yeah, that's basically the way that we left the convention day with that as the big bombshell issue of the convention.

Wow. Now, I have heard about Danny Akin for a number of years, and initially, everything that I was hearing from people I respect was good and positive, but what has deteriorated or devolved in that area with Danny?

Well, Dr. Akin, you know, has postured him. Over the last several years, you have Wally that has embraced very big issues. Individuals like Walter Strickland and others who have taught there, who have promoted the teachings of James Cone.

You have, you know, other individuals who have caused great controversy as it pertains hired by Danny Akin. And so needless to say, he has supported Beth Moore. He has supported lots of things that we would, and yet he continues to.

Be very, very evident at this convention. We have an anonymous listener who says, I'm remaining anonymous because I am absolutely disgusted by the silence of the Southern Baptist pastors and leaders that I personally know over the whole issues of wokeism and critical race theory and other things that are ripping apart the Southern Baptist Convention and also causing enormous wedges in the body of Christ at large.

I was wondering, just as I have my suspicions that our own presidential election in the United States was an illegitimate one, are there anyone posing the idea that this was somehow an illegitimate election in the Southern Baptist Convention?

Yeah, yeah, that's a great question about, you know, accountability that's taking place behind the scenes to bring about the results and that sort of thing. We don't have any reason as far as the results make the case that, you know, there's a lack of transparency as it, and maybe you would see something like that change in the days to come.

I'm not one to really put a lot of stock and effort into whether or not this was a legitimate count. What we do know is that the elites made their voice known and they have a very large following within the SBC.

That was able to sway the vote, some 600 votes. Another rookie mistake was that that groundswell of large numbers of messengers that came to the SBC, a lot of them just got up and left the room and went and they would just find out the results on social media or that evening or the following day.

The problem is there was going to be a runoff, and so if you look at the number of messengers, one, and then you compare that with a gap there, and it's less messengers voting on ballot two than ballot one.

So that means that, again, during that specific or credible evidence to go on that.

This election was... We have Joseph in South Central Pennsylvania who wants to know, are there pro-abortionists among the more progressive and liberal members and leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, and was the issue of abortion raised, and did it play a prominent role at all in this recent meeting?

Yes, there is time given to the issue of.

Within the SBC, or whether it be even local church pastors, I don't know, analysm versus... That's going to be where the heated debate takes... Resolution number three stated, resolved at the Southern...

Means to end women by the unjust abortion industry, end quote. Now, the language of victimization for women, make an amendment, should not, as Southern Baptists, be encouraging the idea that women who actually get an abortion is actually seen as an unfriendly amendment.

And so the resolutions committee did not want to adjust that way. And so that was controversial. And then the abolition of... Actually not brought... And that caused controversy, which actually resulted in a vote committee onto the language right now would be, should we be working with...

Stand right now. By the way, folks, you might want to mark down on your calendars.

That this Monday, I am going to feature as my guests, God willing, the co-authors of the Southern Baptist Convention Abolition, Abortion, or should I say Abortion Abolition Resolution, Bill Askell and Dusty Deavers.

So you might want to mark your calendars for those two brethren being on the program. Just to clarify something you said about the victimization of women, assuming that you would agree with me that an exception would be underage girls that are being coerced or even forced by their parents or others to do this against their will or you know, being given, basically brainwashing on the issue where they're not really understanding.

What's happening. Yeah, absolutely, Chris. But I think that that's a very small number of actual cases of abortion for an abortion drive-in and SUVs and very nice vehicles. And they're not victim teenagers.

Again, I would say the women who actually go through with an abortion.

Yeah, in fact, I was shocked, showing my ignorance on this whole issue. I was shocked when my friend Pastor Jeff Durbin of Apologia Church in Phoenix, Arizona, who is very much on the front lines of fighting against infanticide and evangelizing those that are seeking abortions and, or should I more accurately phrase it, attempting to murder their children.

I was very surprised that he said every single woman, or at least close to that, but I'm fairly certain he did say every single woman, that he has approached at abortion clinics and rebuked them with love that they are entering into a slaughterhouse that is going to murder their child.

They knew this. They knew that it was murder. They knew that they were murdering a human being. That, that actually surprised me that it was that prevalent that people would, if not know that with certainty, but admit that openly.

Yeah, that's just true.

I've stood out there with my fellow brothers here within the context of our local church, the privilege to preach the gospel there on numerous occasions and called out to us and opposed the preaching of the word and doing.

They're acting out of no end, and I don't know of anyone that would be pro-abortion, but I do know of plenty who are a part of the pro-life movement, and the pro-life movement, the idea of, and to a lot of people who would say, no, we don't need to support any forms of, and we need to stand against abortion on, off a hard line in the sand, and so that's where the critical controversy is as it pertains to this issue.

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