Randy Adams Interview

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�But we did not yield in subjection to them for even an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you. In short, if you like smooth, watered-down words to make you simply feel good, this show isn�t for you.

By purpose, we are first biblical, but we can also be controversial. Stay tuned for the next 25 minutes as we�re called by the Divine Trumpet to summon the troops for the honor and glory of her King. Here�s our host, Pastor Mike Abendroth.

The Show’s Focus on Christ and Non-Compromise

Welcome to No Compromise Radio, a ministry. My name is Mike Abendroth, and over the years we�ve gone a little bit from, I don�t know, some type of discernment, maybe radio, and we�ve moved more toward thinking about issues in Christ Jesus� Church.

In my younger days, when I would think of No Compromise Radio, I wouldn�t want to compromise, and I still don�t want to compromise, but ultimately, the show now is about the Lord Jesus and to imagine that He lived on earth and He never compromised.

The Lord Jesus said, �I always do what�s pleasing to my Father. And even His critics would say that they cannot convict Him of any sin, and so that�s amazing to me. And so today, on the radio show, we want to talk to someone else who extols the Lord Jesus and then, because of Him, does not want to compromise.

And so today, on the radio show, we have Randy Adams. Randy Adams, welcome to No Compromise Radio ministry.

Thank you, Mike. It�s a pleasure to be with you today.

Why Randy Adams Is Running for SBC President

Well, Randy, let�s just cut to the chase. I live in New England now, and so we�re just blunt. We ask direct questions. Why are you on the show today?

Well, I�m going to be a notion of Southern Baptist.

So Randy, is the Southern Baptist Convention the largest evangelical denomination in the U .S.?

It is, and for that reason, I think it�s not a Southern Baptist who have over 40. It happens in our seminaries, a lot of evangelical pastors.

Concerns About Southern Seminary and Theological Drift

Well, Randy, as I think about Southern Baptist, I was drawn in the early 2000s to Southern Seminary because I watched what happened at Southern Seminary, and even in the PBS movie by filmmaker Stephen Lipscomb, the movie Battle for the Minds, I watched that and thought, you know, this is amazing.

Most every seminary goes liberal, right? It starts off conservative, and then it goes liberal. And then here, Southern Seminary, we have a complete opposite, and so that�s what drew me to Southern Seminary to go get some more education in expository preaching in particular, and now I look at Southern Seminary and some of the critical race theory issues and what�s going on.

How can it be, and this is a broad question, you can go whatever direction you like, maybe I should ask it this way. Do you think Southern Seminary and the other seminaries are going backward? Are they heading back toward the direction or the trajectory that they used to be, that is, liberal?

I attended Southwest Seminary, and I have heard some lack of racism, or the idea that if you�re inherently racist because of your identity, I think it�s dangerous.

Talking today to Randy Adams. You can go to the website randyadams .org if you�d like to read some of the specifics that he has written about in terms of what he would like to do in the Southern Baptist Convention as president.

Al Mohler, Conservative Leadership, and Seminary Politics

Randy, most of our listeners would know the briefing, Al Mohler, they�ve read probably some of his books and they�ve heard him preach, listened to him on radio shows and TV shows. In my mind, and of course I�m not a big Southern Baptist guru, but in my mind I would think at least 10 years ago or 20 years ago, he, Al Mohler, would be the conservative�s choice and that he would stand up for the Baptist faith and message and for gender roles and complementarianism and all these other things that he would just line up under and teach.

I don�t know if this is correct or not, but in my mind I see you as more conservative as Al Mohler, and so now you�re running as someone who�s more conservative, at least in my mind, correct me if I�m wrong.

What differentiates you between the beliefs and practices of Al Mohler? This isn�t a personal issue, obviously, but what does he teach and stand for that you would disagree with or you would be more conservative on?

I�d say there�s no difference in some circles, and one of those issues, as you mentioned prior, CRT and intersection of slide theology, which I am, I�ve expressed them in ways that are incomplete. Right, well you have� I�m talking about them.

Sorry to interrupt you there, Randy, I was just thinking about the nondisclosure agreements that professors were offered, at least I know at Southern Seminary, and some didn�t take them like, for instance, Russell Fuller, and it�s, you know, why do we, I think it�s your question, why do we use these nondisclosure agreements, and your quote on your website was, what are we afraid of, learning the truth, and I think that�s my concern as a, you know, I want the Southern Baptist to do well, I want the Gospel to go forward, I�m not against any particular denomination, I want to see the Great Commission, obviously, and Christ proclaimed, so I want that.

But it seems to me that, you know, people, maybe I could put it this way, here�s my take on Southern Seminary, correct me if I�m wrong or add or subtract, there�s a young generation that have been imbibing critical race theory, the world is selling it, people are understanding it some, they think it�s maybe a useful tool, while Al Mohler publicly in the briefing says, you know what, we don�t teach it, but there are people at Southern Seminary, and I�ve seen their handouts and their syllabus, where they do teach it.

In my mind, Al Mohler is trying to be kind of a politician, I can keep this stuff under wrap, because if I blow it up, then who knows what will happen. Is that a wrong way to look at it? Am I naive? Am I on track?

What do you think, Randy? I think you are, and I think you�ve put your finger on something, too, regarding NDAs, the non-baptist, not to pretend you don�t want a guy leaving and taking the song, and so perhaps, but in our seminaries and our entities, hypocrisy, I think it�s important to have a real problem with that, and that�s one of the big issues.

SBC Entities, Financial Transparency, and Institutional Trust

Well, Randy, I hope someone like you, and I hope you are elected president, because.

I think it�s really for the honor of the Lord Jesus, when I, an outsider, with some skin in the game, as it were, when I look at the Southern Baptist Convention, things pop into my mind, and things pop into my mind like Lifeway, I would think it was a complete disaster on some of the things that they would sell, and giving money to the outgoing president, I think about a million dollars, and so I think of Lifeway, I think of the North American mission, NAMB, where it�s like, okay, where does this money go, and if I send a dollar for missions, does it go to critical race theory, or does it go to the resurrected Savior, and begging people to believe in him, this risen king, and then I also look at Russell Moore and the ERLC, and in my mind, and again, I�m a nobody up here in New England, but between Lifeway, the NAMB, and ERLC, I just think it�s a complete disaster, and it needs to be, somebody needs to clean house.

One way to underline, I was just thinking about this even more, our entities, they inherited the mantle of leadership, and I would say the mantle of trust. Yeah, it does. Well, Randy, we don�t have tons of time left, but maybe we could kind.

Day-One Priorities as SBC President

Of wrap things up this way. We have a new president in the United States, and I think the first day or two, he signed, I don�t know, 40 or 50 executive orders that were put on his desk, and he just signed one after another after another.

If there�s an equivalent to an executive order in the Southern Baptist Convention, as president, what executive orders would you sign day one?

If I could do anything day one, it would be to open up the financial record, and so I would call for a bunch of people, that�d be number one.

Questions About Representation, Closing Thoughts, and 1 Corinthians

All right, good. Well, thank you, Randy. It just popped into my mind as you were speaking. Do you think the Southern Baptist Convention wants someone that�s not white and not male? Do you think that�s what they�re after in light of all this oppressor, victim, oppressed stuff?

Do you think there�s any push for that? We just need a non-white, non-male. Well thank you. Randy, it�s an odd thing for me to interview a candidate for presidency. And so, I don�t really know how these things work, although it�s not for the President of the United States.

Let me just kind of give you a couple minutes. You can take whatever time you want to wrap up. I don�t know, do you say, �If I�m elected president, I will do this, that, or the other or a closing statement, but you have the floor.

You know, this is not about his mission.

Well, I like what you said, especially, Randy, about what the Lord�s going to do, even in 1 Corinthians. Of course, the Corinthians were completely carnal and a really messed up church. And I find it fascinating that even in chapter 1, right from the very beginning, he talks about the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain you to the end, guiltless, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Well, Randy, I�m not a Southern Baptist, but if I were a Southern Baptist, I�d vote for you for president of the convention.

I appreciate that. I just think it�s a strange day when people say, �Is Al Mohler the conservative candidate And for those in my corner, the answer would be, �No. So, who will step in to do things in a biblical fashion, come what may?

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