| SBC president supports resolution celebrating Obama's election |
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| By Bob Allen | |||
| Wednesday, June 17, 2009 | |||
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WOODSTOCK, Ga. (ABP) -- The president of the Southern Baptist Convention has voiced support for a proposed SBC resolution celebrating President Obama's election.
"I think it is certainly a great thing to do, to celebrate the election of an African American," Hunt, pastor of First Baptist Church of Woodstock, Ga., told One News Now, a media outlet affiliated with the American Family Association. "That was a great day in our country," Hunt said. "We celebrate it as a country, and I think, [as] Southern Baptists, we can do that." Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, has submitted a resolution celebrating Obama's election "as a significant contribution to the ongoing cause of racial reconciliation in the United States." McKissic, who is African American, said he didn't expect any major opposition to the proposal, even though the SBC in the recent past has embraced Republican presidents and criticized Democrats, including one of its own -- Bill Clinton, a member of Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock, Ark.
Epps is founding pastor of Gospel Fellowship Community Church in Salt Lake City, an independent evangelical congregation affiliated with the Antioch Network of Churches. The network was formed at McKissic's church in 2008, pledging to cooperate within the framework of a consensus of theological beliefs while agreeing to disagree on "tertiary" matters, like use of a "private prayer language." Epps, a native of Atlanta, said he grew up in a Southern Baptist church and attended Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in California. He said he was turned down appointment as an inner-city church planter for the SBC's North American Mission Board after he told NAMB representatives he had spoken in a private prayer language. McKissic has drawn controversy in SBC circles for saying he had experienced a private prayer tongue as well. "I agree with Johnny Hunt" on Obama's election, Epps said in an interview June 17. "I think it's a bittersweet thing." "I think it is great Obama was elected, being an African American," he said. "At the same time his policies are very dangerous, but we just have to find the good in it." "We don't have to be the type of people, I think, that just shout the guy down all the time," Epps said. Epps preached a sermon in November after Obama's election telling church members that he had supported Obama's opponent in the general election and had serious concerns about the new president's qualifications and philosophy. He said church members should accept the election as part of God's will, however, citing a verse in Romans 13 that says God establishes the authorities that are set in place. -30- This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it is senior writer for Associated Baptist Press.                 Comments (3)
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written by alabamajubilee, June 21, 2009
President Obama is the President of the United States. But I certainly do not share his vision for our country. I stand completely opposed to this man's agenda and I further hope that our SBC does not support such a resolution that is being proposed. I know that my Pastor WILL NOT...
The Baptist Church and Politics
written by Brotsch, June 26, 2009
As an indivitual of this country I am obligated to be informed about the politics of this country. As an indivitual I am appaled at what Obama is doing to our country. Black, White, Red or Yellow,Jesus loves them all. I understand that our leaders are put there by God for a reason and ours is not to reason why.
There is nothing special about having a Black man as President of the greatest country in the world if one is truly unbiased. Expecially when he is moving this nation to it's death. But, the Baptist Church, on the other hand, needs to be focused on what God wants us to do for our country; not whether the President of the United States is Black or White! I am completely, and absolutely against any proclimation of honor to this MAN! Thank You David Brotsch Are you kidding me????? written by Myoung, June 28, 2009
Are you kidding me?? This article should caution even the most "moderate" Southern Baptist, and should alarm the conservatives in the SBC. I mean it should ALARM!!
Celebrate the election of a black man. OK. Celebrate racial healing. GREAT! But, let's review this again: Celebrate that a black man is elected as president of the U.S., which might serve to heal race relations in America...even if the man is in favor or ABORTIONS, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGES, HATE CRIMES LEGISLATION (i.e., muzzling the gospel message about sexual perversion and promiscuity), TAX INCREASES ON THE MIDDLE CLASS, ENERGY TAXES ON ALL OF US, GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF BANKS AND MEDICINE, among other anti-conservative and anti-traditional Christian values... WHO is endorsing this idea and who is doing this celebrating??? The President of the SBC???????????? Folks, you in the SBC or attending SBC churches had better wake up and speak up. If your religious leaders aren't willing to listen, you'd better speak through the offering plates and stop supporting this drift. Your money is not going to GOD's purposes if this is how your leaders are thinking! (No matter how religious or 'good' the cause seems to be) By the way, has Saddleback Church (Rick Warren) or Willow Creek and Bill Hybel's disciples or Tony Campolo or Rob Bell (or any other Emergent minion) spoken at your church or been endorsed by your church lately? (He's been at ours, teaching the 'let's all just get along and ignore our differneces doctrines') Then beware! We've all seen it coming. Rick Warren's PURPOSE DRIVEN CHURCH, Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathedral, Bill Hybels Willow Creek (now with Tony Blair the religious globalist), Joel Osteen's THE CHAMPION IN YOU, the Nazarene's embracing of the heretical Emergent Movement - - - all this is the current day RE-BUILDING THE TOWER OF BABEL! Man is RE-BUILDING THE TOWER OF BABEL every time man says we need to get past our religious differences and join ourselves together - brothers all - Catholics, Protestants, Evangelicals, Muslims - and get some Good Works going in the name of all our gods; or man says God's miracles have ceased and it's up to us now; or man says WE are doing the work of God and God is blessing OUR great ideas and our great works done in His name. But these works are not done depending on God's Power or His Holy Spirit, they are not based on HIS WORD, they are done in our own strength by our own will. They are done to create empires and kingdoms and mega-churches! They are in the form of merchandising the Gospel! Now the SBC leaders are saying Obama is worthy of celebration! (They also are quick to add, "Oh, and I don't agree with his policies, but WHAT A GUY! Let's celebrate HIM (Obama)!") Please don't say "But there is just so much good in the SBC (or the Nazarenes, or the Methodists or the Catholic Church) that we are just going to stay and work through our 'mistakes'. God understands that we are just human. And He wants us to all get along". Your had better read what GOD says about heresies, abominations, transgressions of His Word, polluting your thinking with foreign gods and man-made changes to His Holy Word! It's time to act, NOW. This is a TRUMPET CALL. You must demand a strict adherence to God's Word. God is not a harlot and won't sleep with a harlot's suitor (i.e., He will not be affiliated with or celebrate the works of any person who supports anti-Christ thought or behavior). If the religious leaders among you compromise and capitulate on the Word of God, then you must move them out or move on, yourselves. If you do not act now, you are supporting this abomination through your giving, your presence and even by your tacit support. Saying "I don't agree with them, but I am trusting God" is an excuse to NOT ACT. Scriptures say SEPARATE YOURSELF from these type of people - do NOT celebrate them - or you will pay the consequences of the harlot. Too harsh???? Read the BOOK for yourselves. This is urgent. Mike Young White Stone Fellowship (PS - I may sound like I think like one of the "good ole boys" referenced by Jason Epps in this article, but, as I attended classes lead by the Dean of Southeastern, I was told I should 'get out of bible college / seminary classes as they would ruin me and the gift of being an effective evangalist to proclaim God's Word - and would dull my passion and fervor". I'm just SURE of God. I KNOW HIM. I am His, and it fills me with passion! That's why I am saying what I am saying! Readers alone are responsible for the content of the comments they post here. The comments are subject to the site’s terms and conditions of use and do not necessarily reflect the opinion or approval of the ABP News. Readers whose comments violate the terms of use may have their comments removed or all of their content blocked from viewing by other users without notification.
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