MUST WATCH for Southern Baptists - Founders #ByWhatStandard Recommendation and Review

Well, all right. Well, happy Monday. I hope that everything's going well for you so far this week. And I hope you had a good weekend. I know I had a pretty good weekend. Although it was sort of stressful me and my wife are currently looking to buy a house Soon, and if you've never been through that process, it could be very frustrating.

Why I Recommend the Founders Documentary

But anyway Thank you so much for tuning in before we get started today. I wanted to say did you catch my last video my video on Friday? It's called where have I heard this one before if you have not it's a short video.

And I think you'll find it entertaining. But it's really interesting how this pagan, you know group of internet scammers has identical thinking. Identical logic identical thought process to many of the woke people in Christianity today now pagans.

They kind of have an excuse because there are pagans, you know, they hate God they hate reality. And so they want to do whatever the heck they want to do. So there's a there's a there's a evil kind of consistency to it, but Christians have no excuse.

But if you have not watched it, it's about the Sakawa boys in Ghana. I highly recommend. It's an entertaining video and it's very short. Anyway today's video. I want to talk about the founders ministries synagogue by what standard now if you Have watched this channel for a while.

You know that I've been a supporter of this synagogue as soon as I heard about the synagogue I keep in repeating the word synagogue because I am entirely convinced that they invented the word synagogue.

I've never heard it before. But when I heard it announced and I heard who was involved I was very excited about it. Then when they launched the trailer I did a couple of videos about the trailer where I fully supported what happened in the trailer.

Even if I fully didn't understand exactly who the players were like that whole situation with Rachel Denhollander. Which I'll talk about at the end of this video. Probably I didn't know what she looked like.

I knew who she was, but I didn't I didn't know what she looked like. And so I didn't know When she was pictured in a kind of a fuzzy sort of image. If if they showed her clear image, I wouldn't have known but I did know it was a woman though.

And I thought they were making a point about women teaching. Which I was not really the point that they were making and but I did know that so I didn't know as Rachel. But I knew it was a woman because the Southern Baptist Convention does not support Transgenderism yet, but anyway, so, you know, I was a supporter of this from the beginning now having seen it I am even more of a supporter of this video.

I think it's a really good movie to get someone introduced into these topics at hand. It's it's a good way to sort of if someone's not sure what to make of all this social justice II stuff I'm not sure why it's a problem and doesn't really have time because you know, they're too busy with life.

Because let's just face it. There are a lot of people in the pews that they they hear this social justice stuff. But they don't really have time or the kind of jobs where they could sit at home and listen to podcasts and YouTube videos all.

Day, like me a lot of people are working with their hands. A lot of people need to pay undivided attention to their work. And so they don't have a lot of time to read books about this or blog posts or watch YouTube videos about it.

But they might have a couple hours on a weekend to sit and watch a documentary like this. And I think it's done in a way that will engage people. I think it's done in a way that'll give someone a sort of a bare-bones idea of what's going on and why this is a Problem and they'll it'll give them some confirmation.

Which I think is important because a lot of people know this stuff doesn't sound good when they hear it. But they're not sure exactly the the nuances of the issues and stuff like that. So this is a very good Introduction for people that are interested in they want to make sure that you know, their churches are doing the biblical thing.

They want to make sure that that they're not involved in any How do I put this? Involved in any compromise, I guess I should say but they don't have a whole lot of time to read a whole bunch of materials.

There's a lot of people like that and this is a great video for people like that I want to what I want to do is I want to play the first three minutes of this movie and comment on it and Hopefully this whets your appetite a little bit to watch the rest of the movie if you have not seen it yet but one of the things that I think is So well done about this video is it really contrasts.

Juxtaposes if you will I like that word juxtapose. It's one of those words that I like but like a lot of people say it to try to sound smart you know what I mean, so I don't I try not to use it too much, but this movie really contrasts the kind of man that I really do want to be like and the kind of man I would never want to be like and I don't just mean that all the people that I agree with in this movie fall into the good category.

And all the people that I don't agree with in this movie fall into the bad category. That's not it. That's really not it. Although I do think that a lot of these things that I'm talking about here. They do fall into one camp more so than the other but but this movie does a really good job.

Showing you men who speak directly to you men who speak to you with respect. Men who trust you enough that look even if you don't like my opinions, I don't have to hide them from you. I'm gonna tell you exactly what I think why I think it with conviction with certain not certainty.

But but with with confidence and and and I'm not gonna you know use weasel words. I'm not gonna try to wiggle out of things and stuff like that. It shows you men like that and then it shows you people that their language is weasel words.

I Would never want to be a man like that. Never and so let's just let's just play the beginning of this video and and and we'll comment on it as we go okay, so the movie starts with kind of an interview or it's actually a link to a YouTube video from Sovereign Nations and.

The video is is is is Michael? O 'Fallon interviewing two atheists, which is a very unusual way to start a video from a Christian perspective. It's called by what standard and that's God's standard. This is a very unusual play by the founders guys.

But I think it's good because it gets your attention right away. It really does now these two guys I really like these two guys. I mean I like them in in in general. They're obviously not on our team so to speak.

But I think that actually helps I think that actually helps so let's listen to what these two atheists have to say.

Atheists Exposing the Logic of Social Justice

I have had in the back of my mind. That if this were at the height of the new atheist movement and when you know, we were extremely involved in that. If I wanted a plan if I were gonna design a plan to bring.

Yeah, how would you do it. Make them woke. Yep, it'll eat itself from the inside and then I'd be.

This is interesting because that they're saying okay. If if if I were one of these crotchety old atheists that likes to think that you know Christianity has never done anything good for society and they said that they used to be that way.

They're not like that anymore. Lots of atheists by the way are changing in that way a lot of atheists have gone from thinking that Christianity is the worst thing Ever to realizing that it's actually a good thing.

Even if they're not Christians now, obviously that doesn't save you we all understand that but that's a good realization. Because that's exactly what the Bible says will happen people will see The law of God they'll see this people blessed by God and and and there are societies and things like that.

And they'll say wow, like God is so close to these people there. There's there that law is so righteous. Of course, they're prospering and that's that's a biblical thing. Anyway, what he's saying is if they were gonna devise a plan because they don't think God exists.

So they think they could actually destroy Christianity. You can't but if they were gonna try They would do it by introducing this social justice stuff and you know why they think this Number one they've studied social justice and they know what the results are.

But they also know from experience because social justice actually infiltrated atheism as well. I used to I used to debate with a lot of atheists and stuff like that. And I remember when I started to see sort of like an atheist civil war Online and if you remember there's this thing called atheism plus.

Atheism plus and what atheism plus was was okay. We don't believe in God, but we do believe in all this social justice stuff and a lot of atheists were like No, I don't you know what I mean? And and there was a civil war and it really fractured the atheist movement.

And so they know from from experience that this kind of identity politics game this kind of social justice. Nonsense that's not based in anything. Except for feelings and socialism and all kinds of shenanigans.

They know it's cancer. It's cancer for any movement. They know that from experience.

I'm not the old guard atheist there for I alluded to earlier. But if I were the old-school angry atheists, it's like let's just throw rocks at the Cathedral till it falls down. I'd start making woke pastors and sending them in because they're gonna tear everything apart because they're gonna make everything about identity.

It's all we talk about.

These guys are on point. The these let's just be honest like like these guys have studied this issue very much and again They have experienced it as well. And so they can speak prophetically a lot better than a lot of people who are who claim to be, you know.

Quote-unquote woke Christians. Because woke Christians are not operating in reality. They they're not operating in reality this whole I think of identity politics and identity games and the black church the white church.

Whiteness blackness, that's not that's all fantasy. And so they're up when they talk about these issues. These two atheists can actually be more prophetic than Christians who buy into this stuff because these two atheists are actually operating in God's Reality to in this issue in this issue.

So this is a very interesting way to start. Let's continue the beginning of this movie.

So I really do think it's time just to say look.

Okay, so this is this is the this is the next scene of this movie is talking about right after the critical theory adoption resolution at the SBC convention. Passed right after that vote passed. This is that night.

What what Tom Askell thought about the whole thing? This is so this is a great way to get someone interested because this is exactly the point. Let's listen to Tom.

This is we have a book. It says this. If you believe the book, that's good. We're on the same team. If you say yeah, I believe the book but because the position I'm in, you know, I really can't say much.

Then you know go get a different kind of job. I said and checked on my Twitter, you know. He told me not to. I read Jerry's Twitter ain't read mine. I got people texting me All over the nation saying what happened can I talk to you what happened.

Let's tell you what happened. What happened? We've been played been played.

Yeah, yeah, that's right. We've been played. He's absolutely right. This guy is seeing clearly what happened and what one of the things that I also like about this movie and and and I'm gonna be Candid with you.

I find this stuff This kind of topic that I'm about to discuss right now. I find it so distasteful I'm not interested in it. I really don't like it and that's sort of the political Maneuvering's the procedural Maneuvering's that happens behind the scenes at things like the Southern Baptist Convention.

But it's less less. Do you think it's just these crazy Baptist? It's not. There's all kinds of Procedural maneuvering's and political things and and and and and secret groups and and and back back room deals and shady Committees in the PCA as well and in Presbyterian conventions as well, and I find it disgusting.

Now I've talked to people about this a lot. I've talked to people in the Southern Baptist Convention I've talked to Presbyterians as well. And the topic that I've said is is this biblical in any way all this stuff.

It just seems so yucky. It's like it strikes me like Congress strikes me. I just like it's a hive of scum and villainy. Every time I go into Washington DC and I pass these buildings where I know there's shady deals going on.

It just gives me the willies. Is it really disgusting or is it do I need to get over that? That's the question I ask people and I've come to. To a place right now where I think it's something that I need to get over because this is how things get done and I don't think we need to lie or be shady or any of that.

But these kind of procedural maneuverings if if we're gonna play the game we got to play the game the right way and the reality is brothers and sisters, I Think the progressives have our number when it comes to this game we can get played like this and this movie will show you the procedures the All the the maneuverings that happen in order to get this resolution on critical theory adopted by the SBC convention.

It is not because the majority of people thought that this was a great resolution. Okay, it's not it's because there were levers pulled and maneuvers made and all kinds of things done in order to just push it through even if people didn't fully understand it and this movie does a good job of showing us Exactly how that happened now, I think that conservatives ought to be learning how to play this game.

Minus the lying minus the shenanigans minus the shadiness because the progressive side of this debate is Willing to do all kinds of things that I think a good Christian should not do. But we should learn how to play this game to look in a perfect world.

We shouldn't need this procedural maneuvering in order to get things done. We shouldn't need it. But look around I've come to realize over the last, you know, you know Five to ten years that we do not live in a perfect world.

And so we need to play this game with them. We need to play it unto God. We need to play it to God's glory. Which means that we can't break his law. We can't do shady things. We can't bend the rules a little bit.

But we can play this game and that's another great thing about this movie. If you if you're interested in the procedural maneuverings that happened at the SBC convention in order to ramrod this thing in.

Then watch this movie. It's a good one. Let's continue. What do you think makes the SBC the best? Okay, so this is this is where? This is the last thing I want to show because this is where you get to really see the difference between a man that you should seek to emulate and a man that I Would just never want to be like never Tom Askew that that the way he spoke, you know a few a few minutes ago It was just a he spoke the way that that men speak to each other.

He spoke directly. He spoke with gravitas gravitas, I Mean and he and he's not despairing. I mean, that's the thing. I love about Tom Askew. This brother's not in despair. He he couldn't believe what had happened.

I mean that that that that clip we just saw was him almost almost at midnight that night just like You know kind of debriefing with his with his friends and stuff like that. But I didn't see a man in despair.

I didn't I saw a man who knew that the progressives had their number and He's ready to go to war if necessary. I can already see people typing. Oh my goodness these people.

They're so scary they use this warrior language, oh my goodness very scary. Grow up. Okay.

Grow. Anyway, so you see Tom Askew and he's this guy. He's got gravitas. He's got conviction. He's he's a he's a man that that I think that that you know. Look, I'm not a big on the celebrity pastor thing.

But if you wanted to to see a man who's operating in this whole debate and and does it in a way that that should? Be emulated. I think Tom Askew is one of those guys good good on you Tom, and I hope that you're feeling better, man.

Anyway, let's compare that To this dude. I don't even know who it is and it doesn't even matter. I don't want to know who he is. Getting interviewed by it looks I think it's Hannah Askew one of the probably the most non-threatening people that I could have possibly Imagined look listen to how this this this young lady not threatening asking some questions.

Yeah, they're direct questions. Yes, but watch watch the weasel words come out. This is there's there's there's a there's a comedian that I follow. He's hilarious and I he's very problematic in many ways.

His name is Owen Benjamin. He would call this wizardry. He would call this is how a wizard operates a wizard doesn't really do magic. I don't know if you knew that a Wizard doesn't really do magic. What a wizard does is he misdirects you he misdirects you and all you got to do.

It's like the Wizard of Oz so like the Wizard of Oz is he's got this big Flashy display where he's got this hologram and fire and everything's just like whoa. This is amazing. But really he's just misdirecting you because his little platform is right here behind the curtain.

All he's doing is his little shenanigans there. It's just all about getting you to see the big stuff like the wild stuff. But really you don't all you got to do is question him once and you're like well Obviously, he's not a wizard.

This is wizardry. You're about to see a textbook example of Wizardry, this is not Hannah Askell. Talking to uh, I don't really care who it is. Our stances on uh. So this why do you think the Southern Baptist Convention is the best denomination in America?

Okay. Good question, Hannah. Just just.

I'm gonna put it just simply put that we stick to what the scripture has to tell us and we don't we don't we don't.

We stick to what the scripture has to tell us and we don't budge from that. Fantastic. Fantastically said. Well said you're gonna see why this is just wizardry in just a second. This guy knows that's what he has to say in order to distract you.

He can say that stuff over here and you're like, oh, yeah right on biblical biblical Fidelity. Yeah, that's great. We stay we're convictions. Yeah, this is why it's just wizardry. Let's listen.

I'm grateful that I'm I'm not seeing the SBC would do what some conventions are doing in terms of stepping away from their Their their values and stances on biblical hot-button topics.

Biblical hot-button topics. We're not we're not gonna back down. Yeah. This is just a wizard spell. You ready for you ready for the wizardry? Here we go. He hit all the things he needed it. Well, we're not backing down from the hot buttons.

Nope. Nope. We're not because we're the Southern Baptist Convention. And we don't back down. We believe what the Bible believe all that's good stuff, man. Don't get me wrong. It's not a wizard spell because I disagree with it.

You'll see why it's a wizard spell. Speaking of biblical hot-button topics again, let's just put this in context, right? He's got a camera in his face. That's that's a little bit intimidating and I can understand that I've had cameras in my face before I've been on live TV in New York City before where I knew that there were probably a million people watching me and it's Intimidating no matter who's interviewing you.

But let's just put this in context is I think this is Hannah Askew. I'm not sure interviewing this guy so. Yeah a little bit of intimidation. You got a camera in your face, but it's like the most non-threatening person.

You can imagine asking you a question. So speaking of hot buttons You just said that we don't back down from hot buttons speaking of hot buttons.

It's everything's right to my next question and talking about. I'm sure you've seen the chatter on Twitter and just conversations that have been going Around about women pastors and women preachers and the woman being the president of the SBC.

What are your thoughts on that?

How do you feel about a woman being president SBC? I don't know that I have a comment on that. Honestly.

Yeah, what do you think. Scripture speaks on women preachers or pastors? Would you be willing to talk about that at all?

I'd say the Bible does the Bible does speak upon it. Since I'm honestly representing a life way.

I'd rather let life way answer that question. I appreciate your time so much Rob. Thank you so much.

Why We Need Courage, Not Weasel Words

So I don't want to beat this guy up too much, okay. So so don't find him if you know who this guy is. Don't find him. Don't beat him up too much because you know, imagine if you had one of your worst moments on Video and put into a synagogue.

You know, you know what? I mean? I Wouldn't want that but the reality is here it is. This is why the progressives Have you by the balls? This is why they win. This is why. Because they've got this guy In fear.

This is a man who's terrified to lose his job. I Understand. Because I've got three kids. I've got three kids and they're all under five years old and I've got a wife. And I need to provide for them. I need to and so if I had a situation where I Knew and you don't know what this guy knows.

I have no idea who this is. This guy could be a committed Progressive. I have no clue. He might be but I don't think that's what this is. Nope I think this is a guy who probably knows Exactly what the Bible says about this.

And he knows where he stands and I bet you he's conservative. I bet you he's conservative. But he's a conservative man. Who is in a state of fear? Because he thinks if he answers. He's seen it happen before he knows maybe he's been told directly.

Maybe he's just been it's like that chilling effect that he's seen things happen. But if he answers the wrong way here He's on he's on the chopping block and he knows it. And so the progressives they're the ones that do this kind of stuff.

They're the ones who if you say the wrong thing you take the wrong position you ain't woke enough well. That's gonna be your livelihood. They've got him and he's terrified and he doesn't want to lose his job and who could blame him.

Because he's probably got a family too. Men here's what we need to do. We need to get ourselves into situations. Where we do not have to go along with the crowd to do evil. Where when a young lady comes up to you and asks you a very simple question with a simple answer.

And you know the answer that you can look into the camera and confidently say God has spoken and this is what God says and so If you want to be mad at me fine, but that's I'm not the one who's saying that that's God.

What other choice do I have. I don't answer to life way I answer to God this is a coward's way out and and I'd like to think and Guys that again. I don't want to beat this guy up because I'm not in this position.

I'm not in this position where if I say the wrong thing then my livelihood is is at stake. I mean everyone kind of is these days because all I gotta do is put you on CNN and and you know that's the end but I'm not in this position.

But but guys we need to put ourselves in a place where We're not fragile in this way. Where we we just get done talking about how strong the SPC is and how we don't back down and on the hot buttons and then someone asks you a hot button and a girl asks you a hot button and You can see like It's it's it's sad the way the way his body language just just just drops and he knows that he This is wizardry.

You pull the curtain and it's just like I'm not in this position. I'd like to think that if I was that I would not be like this. I Don't know that I would be. I'm well aware of how much of a coward I can be at times.

But this is this is this is what we have to resist. We have to resist this if you Do the right thing and you say this is what God has said and who am I to change what God has said? Whether I work for life way or not.

Who am I to not be clear about this, especially after I just got done saying this is why it's the best. You know denomination ever. You might your life might be more difficult if you do it that way. Russell Moore is famous for this kind of an answer.

Oh, well, you know Complementarianism should be about complementarity. It's just like What a coward what a coward. Man, we ought not be this way. We ought not be this way. I Think it's time to find all of us need to find our big-boy pants and get ready for war because If our jobs depend on us answering like this where it's like, I don't have a comment.

You might as well just kill us now. You might as well just get just get it over with. Don't be castrated by the woke. Refuse just don't go along with it. Just say no. You want to fire me for saying what the Bible says when I know what the Bible says and so do you?

Fire me. It'll be the biggest mistake of your life. That's the attitude. We should be bringing to this because I've thought about it. What happens if I you know. If I get fired or if I you know. Get into a state of want because of what I say on YouTube and stuff like that what happens well.

That'll be tough, but I'll try to use it to my advantage, but I'll trust God with the results man. Let's let's let's let's act like as if we actually do trust God like like if we actually believe the verse where it says.

You know, what can man do to me? You know what I mean? What can man do to me if God's on your side? What can man do to you? I don't know. I Hope I don't come off as too aggressive with this guy. I feel for him.

I do because I don't know what this guy has seen. I don't know what he has seen I don't know what he's been told but it's it's obvious that something is Driving the bus comes to this answer. I want you to watch this again.

Pastors and women preachers and the woman being the president of the SBC. What are your thoughts on that?

How do you feel about a woman being president SBC? I don't.

That's how you defeat someone who's who's who's who's trying to distract you. That's how you defeat a wizard. You just ask him a direct question and.

This is what he does. Um, I know that I have a comment on that. Honestly. Yeah.

What do you think scripture speaks on women preachers or pastors? Would you be willing to talk about that at all?

I'd say the Bible does. The Bible does speak upon it. Since I'm honestly representing life way I'd rather let life way answer that question. God has spoken.

But right now in this moment on this topic Life way is my master. That's a sad state of affairs man. You know after watching that and thinking about it a little bit this isn't really the time in my opinion.

You know the slap high-fives and to and to be bop, you know all over this kind of thing this is a time to really reflect on our on ourselves here because Christian the temptation to give answers like you just saw.

With this interview with Hannah Askew and this guy the temptation and the pressure to do it That way is immense and people have built Theologies to make that kind of an answer more winsome than direct answers like Tom Askew.

Tom Askew is a villain in some corners of The internet right now because he speaks to you directly like a man. But I want you to hear the words of Christ because the pressure is going to be immense on us to provide answers like this.

Man, this is not a time for us to say. Well, this man's bad. No, this is a time to reflect on ourselves because I see too much of myself. In the way that this man answered that question. I Want to be as humble as I can be about this listen to the words of Christ and I hope this encourages you.

Christ says to on the Sermon on the Mount. He says you are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.

And that's hard to hear. You're the salt of the earth. But if you lose your saltiness You're no longer good for anything. Here's also what he says. He says you're the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.

Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a stand and it gives light so that others I'm sorry gives light to all in the house. Christian listen to this in the same way. Let your light shine before others so that they may see your good works and give glory to your father who is in heaven.

Let us not Hide our light behind weasel words behind non answers behind. Well, my employer go ahead and ask them that I have no comment. Let us not lose our light. Let us not lose our salt in that way.

But rather let us be bold. Let us let us be okay with saying thus says the Lord. When the Lord actually did say Let us be okay with that. Let us have courage to do that because these days that kind of does take courage from time to time.

And so I just want to leave you with that and encourage you with that. I hope that this review was helpful. God bless. Now I wanted to end this video talking about the the Rachel Denhollander controversy, which there is none in this movie.

Rachel Denhollander and the Trailer Controversy

They very clearly don't they just don't go into it too much. But but you may have heard that Founders ministry thinks that Rachel Denhollander is a literal demon like, you know, like a spiritual entity.

If you've heard that and you believed it, I mean shame on you obviously shame on you, but there's none of that here. There's none of that here. What I do like about that whole controversy though. Is that only idiots will fall for it and not watch this trip?

Idiot if you're if you're if you believed that whole thing of that that that founders thinks that Rachel Denhollander is a literal demon. And that's what their trailer said and that's what this movie is gonna be about.

So I'm not even gonna watch it if you believe that you are an idiot. Okay, you're stupid. You're way stupider than you ought to be. But there are very few people like that. And so those people won't watch the movie.

That's not the target audience of this movie. Anyway, the target audience of this movie is people that are fair. People that have a modicum of intelligence people that that don't just believe everything you read on the internet kind of thing and Rachel D is not featured that much in this movie and I don't know why that happened.

I don't care. I thought it would have been nice to explore that a lot more in depth and maybe they will. I don't know what's gonna happen. But yeah, I just wanted to comment that in here. Anyway, I hope this is helpful.

Not really a full review. But I hope it wets the appetite enough because you've got about two hours and see how long is this movie? Yeah about two hours. I'm a little less than two hours. Expanding on these topics and more so I hope that you found this helpful.

And I hope that you recommend this movie to anyone who's interested in these things. Anyway, thanks for watching. I hope you found this helpful. God bless.