URGING “COMMON GROUND” WITH LGBT AND ISLAM IS ONE OF THE WORST BETRAYALS COMING FROM WITHIN THE CHURCH.

By Rev. Thomas Littleton                                                                                          11/29/2019

Religious Liberty in America is at the HEART of the freedoms set forth in both the US Constitution and the founding of the nation. This guaranteed freedom is one of the most appealing personal freedoms about being an American whatever your point of origin . However to assert that the Constitution does not speak to Religious Liberty through the lens of Christianity  is to perpetuate a modern myth with far more political ,universalist and globalist overtones than historic fact. ALSO efforts to feature  issues and  systems antithetical to the heart of Religious Liberty and Christian FAITH to ” RE-interpret Religious Liberty” in America are nothing more than classic deconstructionism.

Today there is a New /Redefined Religious Liberty being promoted  not only by those who would have something obvious to gain from it but by the trusted leaders in the Christian faith. Like a creative dance of illuminary beings flashing in a darkened sky -the talking points of Interfaith Dialog and securing Religious Liberty for all are flashing in the eyes of believers young and old .

Historically such freedoms prevent a State establishment of a state church and prevent prohibit the free exercise of religion . Clearly the Constitution speaks through the lens of Christian faith and the struggle colonials had with the Government and it’s state church from which it declared Independence. While relevant  to a broader religious application , the Constitution does not project the opportunity to disadvantage historic Christian freedoms as it is interpreted to be more “inclusive” or “non discriminatory “. These lines only blurred when promoting the normalization of things in direct opposition to Christian faith as necessary to redefining Religious Liberty.

The problem in American Christianity concerning Religious Liberty is that the very people and organizations employed and engaged by Christians to defend their freedoms are the key players in the modern day “dance of the fireflies ” to strip all real Christian foundations from the heart of Religious Liberties  as it is redefined “for a pluralistic society”.. As is the case in the gardening board game by the same name….  ” not everything in the  (Gospel ) garden will be rosy as the game plays out.” We are awakening to find strangers have sown tares in the fields of Religious Liberty .

CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW APOLOGETICS ARE EMBRACING INTERFAITH DIALOG 

One of the areas most active in the New Redefined Religious Liberty through the lens of islam and Christian / Muslim dialog is in Christian Apologetics ministries .In the name of evangelical outreach and hospitality, apologetics groups are bringing in Muslim Speakers and taking teens and adults to local  Mosque , Islamic Centers open house events to be instructed by the Mosque leaders on the history and devotions of Islam. Christians are being encouraged to study the Koran and “get to know Muslims around them”. Now this effort is doubling down on the very campuses of Christian institutions of higher education .

APOLOGETICS MINISTRIES MYTHS DRIVING INTERFAITH DIALOG 

Many see such Apologetics efforts through the hope of providing for evangelism yet the advocates of the New Redefined Religious Liberty are quick to say that “Christians should not be viewing their Muslim neighbors as evangelistic projects ” but should instead be “getting to know and accept people for who they are “. The Evangelism goal is a modern myth perpetuated in the talking points for more Biblical conservative participants  .

In this writer’s area by 2016 a Christian Apologetics group working within SBC and PCA churches and associated with Biola Universities  “Stand  to Reason Apologetics ” began bringing a professional Muslim lobbyist from a DC think tank into PCA and SBC churches and Christian Schools .The message  overwhelmingly misrepresented Islam by  advocating that:

(Some Myths perpetuated about Islam by current apologetics ministries)

1-“Muslims and Christians worship the same God”

2-“The US Constitution and Sharia Law are compatible”

3- “Islam promotes Religious Freedom and tolerance ”

4- “Islam is compatible with American ideals of Religious Liberty”

SOME MUCH NEEDED HISTORY FOR CHRISTIANS TO KNOW

“COMMON WORD AND COMMON GROUND “AT ROOT OF INTERFAITH MOVEMENT 

This movement appears to have crystalized in 2008

https://faith.yale.edu/common-word/common-word-christian-response

“Religious Peace—World Peace
“Muslims and Christians together make up well over half of the world’s population. Without peace and justice between these two religious communities, there can be no meaningful peace in the world.” We share the sentiment of the Muslim signatories expressed in these opening lines of their open letter. Peaceful relations between Muslims and Christians stand as one of the central challenges of this century, and perhaps of the whole present epoch. ”

COMMON GROUND

“What is common between us lies not in something marginal, nor in something merely important to each. It lies, rather, in something absolutely central to both: love of God and love of neighbor. Surprisingly for many Christians, your letter considers the dual command of love to be the foundational principle not just of the Christian faith, but of Islam as well. That so much common ground exists – common ground in some of the fundamentals of faith – gives hope that undeniable differences and even the very real external pressures that bear down upon us cannot overshadow the common ground upon which we stand together. ”

YOU NEED TO KNOW:

THE NEW (REDEFINED) RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ,HOW IT WORKS AND WHO IS PLAYING THE GAME OF “THE DANCE OF THE  FIREFLIES”.

At the moment this confusing message looks to be coming at the church from all directions.

 ABC -OBAMA ERA PARTNERS STRATEGIES 

Many of the same evangelicals in the Obama era partners who collaborated with the Obama administration for the Faith Based Neighborhood Partnerships are THE present day allies of and advocates for the “New Religious Liberty “.

A) PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL PLAYERS &CAMPAIGN / NEIGHBORLY FAITH AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY COUPLED WITH LGBT RIGHTS AND PROGRESSIVE IMMIGRATION POLICY

B) INTERFAITH DIALOG KEY TO REDEFINING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY 

C) RUSSELL MOORE OF ERLC IS PUSHING THE BROAD REDEFINITION OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY BY PROMOTING MICHAEL WEAR AND THE LEGAL TEAM AND ACTIONS REPRESENTING IT  

PROMOTING WEAR’S BOOK 

SOJOURNERS/TGC  /RUSSELL MOORE ON MICHAEL WEAR PURE LEFT WING POLITICS

Sojourners

“THIS IS A PRE-TRUMP book with serious questions for our politics in the age of Trump.”

The Gospel Coalition

If you asked me what the American republic needs most right now, at least at the human level, I would say: “more Democrats like Michael Wear.” And if you asked me what the American church needs most right now, on the human level, I would say: “more Democrats like Michael Wear.”

ERLC’s MOORE AND WEAR NOW WORK VERY CLOSELY IN THE 2020 ELECTION CYCLE

Moore says of Wears “Reclaiming Hope ” book”We can hope and this book can help us”

http://michaelwear.com/blog/2017/5/11/reviews-of-reclaiming-hope

IMMIGRATION REFORM AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY .

The push for “immigration reform” brings many partners together. Large corporations who want cheap labor , open societies foundations who want open borders , Democratic Party strategist who want more welfare recipient voters. Progressive evangelicals like Russell Moore who help the strategy of all those mentioned above by moving conservative Christians toward the progressive policies . The partners all find their common ground and mutual benefit.

Perhaps Moore and others added benefit is the push for more immigration means the perfect justification for redefining the “New Religious Liberty ” in a pluralistic society ” as they push for reforms that will flood the culture in America with an even more diverse religious landscape. Part of the end goals for evangelicals in this strategy is very simple . It pays well to be pro immigration IF you are on the receiving end of grants coming from all other parties involved.

The new Religious Liberty has very little to do with Christian faith or the Constitution or protecting either of them. It has far more to do with the political winds for social change AND the massive funding that fuels the movement. In short,especially in the SBC it could be perceived that the one person and the entity he heads employed to protect Christians Religious Liberty is doing far more to undermine and redefine it than in any way protect it.

CIVILITY A KEY “POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT ” TALKING POINT 

ERLC recently released its 2020 voter guide .It is the ERLC sounds the charming chime of “Civility” which might well be understood to mean “True Biblical Conservatives STAND DOWN and be nice while we progressives do what  we do and redefine your world”. Moore’s 2020 election guide was drafted by a Georgetown Professor and a new age globalist spirituality / universalist think tank .

ERLC- DEEP STATE MANUAL FOR 2020 POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT

MOORE AND WEAR IN NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM FOR “CIVIL DISCOURSE”  AND “MEANINGFUL SOCIAL CHANGE”

https://immigrationforum.org/article/ltw19speakers/

Michael Wear

Chief Strategist

The AND Campaign

Dr. Russell Moore

President

Ethics & Religious Liberties Commission

of the Southern Baptist Convention

“Conversation 2: A Civil Discourse”

“The extreme polarization in our political parties has become a barrier to compromise and progress on policies that could improve our country and the American people. Our country’s biggest challenges have become political battlegrounds, no better example than the current immigration debate. Hear from highly regarded and influential thought leaders on how we can bridge ideological differences and come together for meaningful change.”

WEARS NARRATIVE ON LGBT & PROTECTING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND REFORMING IMMIGRATION TARGETING THE 2020 HOPEFUL DEFEAT OF TRUMP

https://andcampaign.org/2020

&CAMPAIGN COUPLES LGBTQ AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

“RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND LGBTQ RIGHTS”
“All attempts to remove more traditional religious beliefs from the public square should be opposed. We, like many other Americans, affirm the historic Christian sexual ethic, and we also believe that religious freedom and LGBTQ civil rights are not necessarily in
irreconcilable conflict. Faith-based charities, hospitals and colleges should not have to choose between surrendering their convictions and closing their doors. At the same time, LGBTQ people should not lose jobs and housing because of how they identify. We must
pursue ways to disagree and live together without bullying or compromising our conscience. Towards that end, we encourage all 2020 candidates to support the Fairness for All Act, which will grant basic civil rights for LGBTQ people while also protecting religious freedom for all faiths.”

SCOTUS PROVES & CAMPAIGN AND WEAR WRONG ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY VS LGBTQ

REDEFINING MARRIAGE AND FAMILY ACCORDING THE THE SUPREME COURT SETS IN MOTION A CONFLICT BETWEEN LGBTQ RIGHTS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF CIVIL VS RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE AS AN INSTITUTION .

No issue is more contradictory to Christian faith in the culture  than redefining human sexuality and supporting the radical LGBTQ agenda . FEW younger Christians are aware of the  history or goals of this global movement or its radical , militant anti-Christian stance. The ERLC / Moore have done NOTHING  to educate Christians on the agenda they face or what is coming into education at every level and impacting Christian families across the spectrum of churches and Christian institutions and ministries . To the contrary ERLC leaders have acted like the massively funded and organized pro LGBTQ groups like Human Rights Campaign do not exist while they have held meetings in private with them  behind closed doors.

ALREADY PARENTAL RIGHTS, “HUMAN DIGNITY ” AND THE DEVELOPING LEGAL LANGUAGE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION/ GENDER IDENTITY AKA “SOGI” ARE IN PLAY

The legal construct for furthering the most radical of LGBTQ rights is the language of Sexual Orientation Gender Identity or SOGI. Though considered the legal gold standard internationally SOGI in fact embodies the very conflict that the movement represents within its own agenda and should expose its weakest legal standing.

To assert that S.O. Sexual Orientation is something  akin to being  “inborn / fixed /unchanging ” while at the same time, in the same phrase , asserting that biological gender is simply an “identity ” or G.I. – therefore it is “fluid and changing” is a total contradiction. NOW global legal human rights issues must be defined and interpreted by this totally subjective contradiction. Fixing and assigning legal standards and discrimination laws to unscientific “orientation arguments  and fluid gender identities is a fools errand and a seed bed for legal malpractice.  Tossing Religious Liberties into this legal quicksand can be little more than an effort to distort if not destroy it altogether .

Assuring Human Dignity for the SOGI populations of the nations must now redefine human rights all together by redefining what it means to BE HUMAN. ERLC/ Russell Moore have only reinforced these efforts and never exposed the contradiction or challenged it or its terminology .

LGBTQ remains one of the greatest threats to ALL RELIGIOUS LIBERTY  that is not willing to be reshaped around it’s ever changing  ever expanding desired narrative.

EQUALITY ACT  ENDS RELIGIOUS LIBERTY NOT COMPLIANT WITH LGBTQ AGENDA

NEXT IN LINE IS THE EQUALITY ACT THAT REDEFINES  ALL OPPOSITION TO THE NORMALIZATION OF THE FULL LGBTQ AGENDA AS HATE SPEECH AND DISCRIMINATORY

This Bill which has been lodged in committees throughout the Obama era and waiting for the right crisis to attach itself to is the END of Religious Liberty as we know it

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5/text

“To prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and for other purposes.”

THE & CAMPAIGN /MICHAEL WEARS  IMMIGRATION REFORM /PRO ISLAMIC RIGHTS MOVEMENT. CLEARLY ANTI TRUMP BUT MUCH MORE .
IMMIGRATION
“The Trump administration has failed to treat undocumented immigrants with dignity and care, especially at the U.S.-Mexico border. In light of God’s special concern for the immigrant and the sojourner, we are deeply dissatisfied with the federal government’s continued negligence when it comes to passing comprehensive immigration reform. The current administration’s willingness to use draconian, manipulative measures to stoke fear in immigrant communities and pit family members against one another is reprehensible. Our government must seek to be both just and compassionate regarding immigration policy, especially in protecting Dreamers and upholding longstanding laws regarding refugees fleeing violence, lawlessness and oppression.”

WEAR /&CAMPAIGN FALSE CONCLUSION

“CONCLUSION”
“Our nation desperately needs Christians to live out their faith in this political sphere for the good of all Americans, and the 2020 presidential candidates need to hear, respond to, and respect our voice and earn our vote. Through advocacy and protest, we are
committed to supporting candidates, no matter their political affiliation, when they promote civility and human dignity, and we will actively oppose politicians, policies, and parties when they undermine these values.”

THE LAST STATEMENT MAY AS WELL BE THE MISSIONS STATEMENT OF &CAMPAIGN FOR “OPPOSING ALL BIBLICAL CONSERVATIVES . AGREE WITH THEM OR ELSE ”

&CAMPAIGN RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES ASSERTIONS ARE TOTALLY SKEWED !

LEGAL ADVOCACY FOR ISLAM IN AMERICA BECKET FUND AND LUKE GOODRICH

RUSSELL MOORE ON LUKE GOODRICH / book FREE TO BELIEVE

ONE OF THE MAJOR PLAYERS IN THE NEW RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IS LUKE GOODRICH. 

HIS COLLABORATIONS AND BOOK TOUR RUN ACROSS THE SPECTRUM OF THE NEW RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ADVOCATES. 

Luke Goodrich of Becket Fund for Religious Liberty makes his case for Christians supporting Islamic rights in America  like the building of Mosque , Islamic Centers and Islamic Schools .His three point case for Christian support  reads like a heart felt -feeling your way through the issues. The narrative appears naive  while  being fully persuaded that the face of progressive leaders in America is the historic reality of Islam. The feel of the arguments are decidedly postmodern and ends with the social justice justification providing  mass appeal to young Christians  .

From Luke Goodrich book “Free to Believe ”

1.”An argument of Self Interest: Protecting Religious Freedom for Muslims helps protect religious freedom for Christians .”

2″An argument for Evangelism : Protecting Religious Freedom for Muslims helps more Muslims come to Christ “. ( however in presentations at Interfaith dialog groups like Neighborly Faith the “evangelism justification ” is refuted strongl. )

3:”An argument of JUSTICE : Protecting Religious Freedom for Muslims is the right thing to do. ”

Becket Fund and Goodrich regularly represent the rights of Muslims in the name of the New Redefined “Religious Liberty”.

ERLC’s Russell Moore has  been an aggressive public advocate for Muslim rights and the building of Mosque .

https://onenewsnow.com/church/2016/06/19/russell-moore-defends-building-mosque-to-sbc-critics

BECKET FUND IS ERLC’s RUSSELL MOORE RECURRENT  LEGAL PARTNER IN THE ADVOCACY FOR MOSQUE AND ISLAMIC RIGHTS.

“Joining the ERLC in the amicus brief were the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, International Society for Krishna Consciousness, National Association of Evangelicals, Sikh Coalition, South Asian Bar Association of New York and the Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey.”

TGC PROMOTION OF GOODRICK TALKING POINTS

Religious Liberty Is for Everyone’s Good

“According to Luke Goodrich’s new book, Free to Believe: The Battle over Religious Liberty in America, my high-school friends and I were surprisingly typical manifestations of how many evangelicals understand religious freedom in America.”

“For example, he explains how a bad Supreme Court decision on peyote-smoking for Native Americans created a precedent that, decades later, left Christian pharmacists no protection from being forced to distribute abortion drugs. Then there’s the story of how a court decision permitting a Muslim prisoner’s halal diet set the stage for a ruling protecting the Christian owners of Hobby Lobby from providing abortion drugs to their employees. Another story tells how a counseling student was expelled just a few credits short of graduation, because she asked to be recused from giving homosexual relationship advice to a client. She ended up winning in court and having her expulsion erased because, as the court explained, “Tolerance is a two-way street.”

“Gospel-Grounded Religious Freedom”

“Free to Believe explains some of the theology behind our concept of religious liberty and takes a deep dive into ways it’s both applied and also threatened in our country. The book offers stories, information, and practical points of action for people to defend their own religious liberties in ways that also respect others.”

“Most importantly, though, the book grounds its explanations not in tactics, strategy, or self-interest, but in the gospel. “Ultimately, our calling is not to respond to the religious freedom challenges ahead,” Goodrich says. “Our calling is to respond to Jesus.” That’s a worthy goal to keep in front of us as we navigate the details of what it means to walk as Christians in society—in Irmo and across our land.”

THE TGC REVIEW AUTHOR ALSO WORKS FOR GOODRICH FIRM

“Ginger Blomberg is a homeschooling mother of five children, with students in high school, middle school, elementary school, and pre-K. She also manages one naughty beagle, two noisy gerbils, and a religious liberty attorney at Becket. She has been published in outlets such as The Federalist.”

MORE TGC COVERAGE OF GOODRICH IDEAS OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

‘No Obvious Answer’: How Christian Colleges Are Responding to LGBTQ Regulations

A REALITY CHECK

LUKE GOODRICH VIEW OF WHY CHRISTIANS SHOULD SUPPORT MUSLIMS EFFORTS FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES ADVANCE ISLAMS GROWTH IN AMERICA. 

BECKET FUND IS FIGHTING FOR MOSQUE IN CITIES LIKE MURFREESBORO TENNESSEE.

“Becket defends the Muslim community’s right to build a house of worship.”  

“The case was urgent—the congregation wanted to be allowed to use its mosque in time to celebrate Ramadan, the holiest time in the Muslim calendar.”

“So Becket filed a federal lawsuit seeking an emergency order allowing the congregation to use its mosque. We argued that subjecting the mosque to a higher legal standard than a Christian church violates the Free Exercise and Equal Protection Clauses of the Constitution.”

Islamic Center of Murfreesboro v. Rutherford County

GOODRICH ON THE &CAMPAIGN / MICHAEL WEARS  BLOG/PODCAST 

GOODRICH SPEAKING IN THE NEIGHBORLY FAITH WHEATON EVENT

https://www.neighborlyfaith.org/conference

NEIGHBORLY FAITH AND ERLC/RUSSELL MOORE 

(NOTE this author has been on Janet Mefferd’s conservative program many times and she helped expose the radical Revoice LGBT FLOURISHING conference in the SBC and PCA circles in 2018 . What has changed since that time is uncertain but some people  have BEGUN expressing concerns that something is going on behind the scenes to impact such decisions on guest and programing of late. It is very disturbing that Janet Mefferd is promoting Luke Goodrich New Redefined “Religious Liberty”  ideals book to her conservative audience. )

10 – 24 – 19 – Janet – Mefferd – Today – Luke Goodrich (Religious Freedom)

Janet Mefferd has been very critical of INTERFAITH DIALOG by people like James White and of Russell Moore’s advocacy for the building of mosque in America yet she promoted one of the leading partners in both movements and his book to her radio audience just one day before Goodrich appeared on Wear’s &Campaign podcast.

Mefferd was also critical  in advance of the Wheaton Event before it was held on November 1st 2019 by Neighborly Faith and yet Luke Goodrich was a speaker at the Wheaton EVENT just days after appearing on her program to promote his book.

Goodrich book may need a warning label for Conservative Biblical Christian readers  who oppose redefining Religious Liberty and the promotion of Interfaith Dialog .

THE NEIGHBORLY FAITH EVENT AT WHEATON

WHY PROMOTE THE NEW RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND PROGRAMS RELATED TO IT ?

SIMPLY PUT -DEFENDING A REDEFINED RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND IMMIGRATION REFORM MEANS FUNDING FOR THOSE WHO EMBRACE IT .

Organizations from World Relief to World Vision to the CCCU to denominational missions efforts like the SBCs INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS BOARD  likely find partnering with the New redefined Religious Liberty can pave the way  for grants and more large donors.

CHRISTIAN LEADERS AND “FAIRNESS TO ALL”  RELIGIOUS LIBERTY 

FINALLY IS “FAIRNESS TO ALL ” THE FULL SURRENDER OF CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN AMERICA ?

HISTORY WILL MARK THIS SELL OUT BY SEVERAL MAJOR CHRISTIAN ENTITIES AS A MAJOR TURNING  POINT IN THE LOSS OF THE HISTORIC RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PROVIDED FOR CHRISTIANS IN THE US CONSTITUTION .

“LGBT-driven ‘Fairness for All’ adopted by evangelical organization will be ‘special rights for a few’

https://www.christianpost.com/voice/lgbt-driven-fairness-for-all-adopted-by-evangelical-organization-will-be-special-rights-for-a-few.html

“The recent action by the boards of two organizations who have been nationally visible as representing conservative evangelicals is “The Great Evangelical Sellout” for a number of critical reasons, not the least of which are wrongfully capitulating to one of the most deceptive Straw Men of modern cultural and political issues.  The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) are supporting the inclusion of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression in federal Civil Rights protections, a patent rejection of biblical truths, moral law and sound Constitutional principles.”

MORE

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/religious-liberty-fairness-for-all-sellout-politics-lgbt-gay-rights/

“Yesterday, World magazine published a big scoop, reporting that two major Evangelical Christian organizations backed seeking a compromise between Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) law supporters and those defending religious liberty. The “Fairness For All” idea is that these Evangelicals would support adding SOGI protections to federal antidiscrimination law in exchange for religious liberty guarantees written into the same law. Excerpt:”

The boards of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) quietly passed similar motions in recent months, advancing a multiyear effort they say is necessary to preserve religious freedom.

“As Christian higher educators, we are increasingly persuaded that the most viable political strategy is for comprehensive religious freedom protections to be combined with explicit support for basic human rights for members of the LGBT community,” Houghton College President Shirley Mullen—one of several people who sit on both boards—wrote in a position paper provided to NAE board members.

CCCU President Shirley Hoogstra announced her board’s vote to member presidents in August, but did not publicly announce the move.

The NAE motion—obtained by WORLD—unanimously passed in October. It’s titled “Fairness for All” and calls on Congress to consider federal legislation consistent with three principles:

• We believe that God created human beings in his image as male or female and that sexual relations be reserved for the marriage of one man and one woman.

• We support long-standing civil rights laws and First Amendment guarantees that protect free religious exercise.

• No one should face violence, harassment, or unjust discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

“Some of my conservative friends — Catholic Ryan T. Anderson, and Evangelicals Denny Burk, Andrew T. Walker, and Russell Moore — have already criticized the proposal  as surrendering too much.” Rod Dreher

YET RUSSELL MOORE /ERLC CONTINUE THEIR OWN PATH TO SURRENDER OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY FOR CHRISTIANS

IF THE CCCU IS WRONG ON “FAIRNESS TO ALL” WHY ARE ERLC AND RUSSELL MOORE WORKING WITH THEM IN SOME OF THE VERY ORGANIZATIONS LISTED IN THIS REPORT?

CCCU President Shirley Hoogstra is part of the Neighborly Faith “CONTRIBUTORS ” along with ERLCs Daniel  Darling a Russell Moore disciple .

“Shirley is president of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities.  Prior to her work with the CCCU, she served as Calvin College’s vice president for student life.”

WHERE WOULD REAL CHRISTIAN LEADERS LIKE THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS BE ON SUCH EFFORTS? 

Matthew 12:33-37

A Tree Known by Its Fruit

³³ “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. ³⁴ Brood^[a] of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ³⁵ A good man out of the good treasure ^[b]of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. ³⁶ But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. ³⁷ For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

GREEAR MIGHT BE SBC PRESIDENT BUT HIS VIEWS ON LGBTQ+ SEXUALITYCOME STRAIGHT FROM REVOICE AND THE CULTURAL ABYSS 

By Thomas Littleton                                                                                                 11/24/2019

J D Greear is in his second term as President of the Southern Baptist Convention and the worst nightmares for those concerned about his less that Biblical moorings are coming true. This week it surfaced on his “Ask Me Anything ” podcast that Greear affirms the use of “preferred pronouns for transgender people”. Greear sources others in his position including Catholic Ryan Anderson and ERLC Andrew Walker but more shocking than his FOOLISH ASSERTION is that he uses a REVOICE LGBTQ FLOURISHING LEADER Preston Sprinkle  as his main source to make his  point that “using transgender pronouns is “PRONOUN  HOSPITALITY “. More on that in a moment .

Some of the Preston Sprinkle TRANS PRONOUN REASONING Greear uses .

“The arguments against pronoun accommodation summarized above all rely on two important assumptions about the nature of language. These assumptions are all the more powerful because they remain unstated:

• Assumption #1: Pronoun gender always and only refers to an individual’s appointed sex.
• Assumption #2: When our definitions of words differ from other people’s definitions, ‘telling the truth’ means using our own definitions” (11.6). “

(more on  problem with J.D. Greear using  Prestons Sprinkle as a source later)

This sad truth telling  of Greears  warped views  garnered some open rebuke .

Even the author of “The Benedict Option Ron Dreher saw Greears position as surrender. It really can’t get much worse than for Dreher to think your soft peddling LGBT.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/jd-greear-surrender-culture-war-pronouns-southern-baptist/

“A Top Pastor’s Culture War Surrender”

J.D. Greear, president of the Southern Baptist Convention. His pronouns are he/him (ERLC screenshot)

Ron Dreher’s criticism –

Dreher critiques a bloggers view  and then tries to weigh in from the middle but comes back to some hard realities on what Greear is promoting .

“If the Democratic Party has its way, and passes the Equality Act — it passed the House this year, but the GOP Senate didn’t take it up — then the use of preferred pronouns will become a federal civil rights mandate.”

“So, look, I understand the desire for a pastor to be gracious to people he’s trying to evangelize, and not to enter into conversations with them from an adversarial position. But the pronoun issue is not merely a matter of courtesy. It means something substantively. The use of language creates social realities. ”

Others like Robert Gagnon expressed concern with “What is Happening to the SBC ” in a  Facebook post too long to repost here.

GREEARS VIEWS ON PRONOUN USE ARE A BIG DEAL SINCE HE IS SBC PRESIDENT. BUT FAR WORSE IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF HIS VIEW BENG FOUND IN THE REVOICE MOVEMENT.

It is likely far past time for Greear and other  SBC leaders like Russell Moore and Albert Mohler to own the reality that – REVOICE IS THE LOVECHILD OF THEIR LONG AFFAIR WITH LGBTQ ACTIVIST AND THE FAR LEFT .

GREEAR’S TAINTED WELL OF RESOURCES EXPLAINING HIS POSITION

https://jdgreear.com/askmeanything/when-talking-with-a-transgender-person-which-pronoun-should-you-use/

Russell Moore’s disciple and employee says –

Andrew Walker: “My own position is that if a transgender person comes to your church, it is fine to refer to them by their preferred pronoun. .. If and when this person desires greater involvement or membership in the church, a church leader will need to meet with them and talk about how they identify. … The best solution is to avoid pronouns altogether if possible. Calling a person by their legal name or preferred name is more acceptable because names are not objectively gendered, but change from culture to culture.”

• Best if you use the proper name over and over, even if it means it sounds weird

AGAIN -THE SBC PRESIDENT IS USING A CENTRAL LEADER IN THE REVOICE MOVEMENT AS A SOURCE !

Who is Preston Sprinkle?

He is a Masters University Graduate who helped found and serves in the leadership of the controversial Revoice LGBT+ Flourishing movement .

His organization conducts training for leaders and churches in ” welcoming ” the LGBT+ Community and LGBT+ Christians into the church

• Worked at Eternity Bible College

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  Studied at University of Aberdeen

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  Studied Biblical exegesis at The Master’s Seminary

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  Studied at The Master’s College

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  Went to Bullard High

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  Lives in Boise, Idaho

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  From Fresno, California

https://revoice.us/our-leadership/

SPRINKLE IS ON THE FOUNDING REVOICE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL AND A SPEAKER

Preston Sprinkle, PhD President at Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender

Sprinkles own organization has Revoice leadership as well

https://centerforfaith.com/about/our-leadership

Revoice members in Sprinkles leadership

Nate Collins -Revoice founder

Mark Yarhouse – the APA / TGC/ LGBT thought leader

Rachel Gilson – CRU leader TGC author

Gregory Coles – author Single Gay Christian promoted by TGC/ D A Carson

Laurie Krieg

Pieter Valk

Bill Henson – leader Bring them Home LGBT church welcoming  leadership

GREEAR DRAWS HIS PRONOUN USE FORM REVOICE SPRINKLE -THE FULL QUOTE

The full citing by Greear of Revoice leader Preston Sprinkle is below :

“Preston Sprinkle, who heads up The Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender, has a similar approach:”

• “He calls it “pronoun hospitality.” 
• The Bible appears to use accommodating language. ACTS 17. We know there is only one God.
• You might find a correlation in “wives” in polygamous society / to a divorced man: “your adulteress”
• I wouldn’t invest too much into language–”oh, I am lying” You can be clear in other ways.
• “I’ll argue in this paper that the most biblical response to transgender people’s pronouns is a posture of unequivocal pronoun hospitality.”
• That is, I believe that all Christians can and should use pronouns that reflect the expressed gender identities of transgender people, regardless of our views about gender identity ethics. If a person identifies herself to you as ‘she,’ I hope you will consider it an act of Christ-like love to call her ‘she’ out of respect, whether or not you believe that the way she expresses her gender identity is honoring to God” (11.1).
• “What does it look like for people who think differently about gender identity ethics to speak truthfully and effectively about one another? This paper considers the common reasons given by Christian conservatives for rejecting the idea of pronoun hospitality, then challenges two assumptions about the nature of language that such arguments make and lays out an affirmative case for pronoun hospitality based in a robust understanding of how language works” (11.1).
  • “Christian arguments against pronoun accommodation—that is, using the pronouns with which trans people identify—are generally rooted in the importance of truth-telling. According to this view of language, the purpose of a pronoun is to make a statement about a person’s appointed sex” (11.4).
  • “Whereas [the truth-telling position] emphasizes the importance of truthfulness for the sake of personal integrity before God, Andrew Walker’s position focuses primarily on how his truthfulness will impact others who are listening to his words” (11.5).
• “The arguments against pronoun accommodation summarized above all rely on two important assumptions about the nature of language. These assumptions are all the more powerful because they remain unstated:
  • Assumption #1: Pronoun gender always and only refers to an individual’s appointed sex.
  • Assumption #2: When our definitions of words differ from other people’s definitions, ‘telling the truth’ means using our own definitions” (11.6).
• “When we apply Paul’s linguistic approach to the pronouns we use about transgender people, I believe we arrive at a posture of pronoun hospitality: a willingness to accommodate the pronouns of our transgender neighbors regardless of our own views about the Christian ethics of gender identity” (11.10).
• Based off of Acts 17″

https://www.disrn.com/2019/11/21/southern-baptist-president-says-he-prefers-to-call-transgender-people-by-their-chosen-pronouns/

GREEAR SPOKE TWICE AT RUSSELL MOORE’S HOMOSEXUALITY CONFERENCE 

J.D. GREEAR WAS CHOSEN TO BE ONE OF THE ERLC SPOKESMEN AT THEIR CONTROVERSIAL 2014 GAME CHANGING CONFERENCE ON HOMOSEXUALITY

DON’T FORGET THIS IS THE ERLC EVENT WHERE DOZENS OF LGBTQ ACTIVIST WERE WELCOMED INTO A CLOSED DOOR MEETING WITH BAPTIST LEADERS.

HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN

GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK

MATTHEW VINES

MORE

No one was ever told what happened in this ERLC/ LGBT activist sit down in 2014 but we do know is that those SBC speakers like Moore. Mohler and Greear almost never mention that the LGBT agenda exist or speak to the end goals like the Radical Comprehensive Sexuality Education the activist seek to mandate in Pre K3 thru 12.

https://erlc.com/resource-library/event-messages/by-conference/2014-national-conference

“From the 2014 ERLC National Conference on The Gospel, Homosexuality, and the Future of Marriage.”

GREEARS FIRST TOPIC ?

In the opening of this presentation Greear acknowledges he gleaned his views and information/ insight into the LGBT topic from ….”Russell Moore. Greear also shares a testimony about a Same Sex Attracted Staffer in his church who is repeatedly “yielding to temptation ” but never mentions his removal for leadership or any church discipline  about the habitual sinning.

“PREACHING LIKE JESUS TO THE LGBT COMMUNITY AND ITS SUPPORTERS “

Preaching Like Jesus to the LGBT Community and Its Supporters | JD Greear

JD Greear on “What it means not to judge”

“What does the Bible mean by, “Judge not, that you be not judged”? And how does this fit in with the way the church ought to respond to the LGBTQ community? Can the love of Christ transcend humanity’s sexuality and get to the heart? J.D. Greear breaks down all these points and explains how the church ought to respond to all peoples.”

J.D. Greear

“J.D. Greear is the pastor of The Summit Church in Durham, North Carolina, and the 62nd president of the Southern Baptist Convention. ”  Read More

THE HOSPITALITY MYTH

Others in the SSA / Gay Christian TGC/ ERLC  conversation like Sam Allberry and Rosaria Butterfield use the “Hospitality Narrative” .

THE HOSPITALITY NARRATIVE  IS REALLY  WORN AND FLIMSY .

Rosaria Butterfield Calls You to (Radically Ordinary) Hospitality

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2018/april-web-only/rosaria-butterfield-gospel-comes-house-key.html

https://rosariabutterfield.com/testimony-conversion-1

Singleness, Same-Sex Attraction, and the Church: A Conversation with Sam Allberry, Rosaria Butterfield, and Christopher Yuan

THE “HOSPITALITY NARRATIVE” IS BASED ON EZEKIEL 16 MENTION OF THE SIN OF SODOM

⁴⁸ “As I live,” says the Lord God, “neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done. ⁴⁹ Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.”

“GAY CHRISTIAN” AND OTHER LGBT ACTIVIST LOVE TO POINT TO THE VERSES ABOVE BUT CAREFULLY OMIT VERSE 50 & THE MENTION OF “COMMITTING ABOMINATION ”

 ^{50 “}And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.”

LETS FORGET THE SENSITIVITY / HOSPITALITY  NARRATIVES AND COMMIT TO THE WORD OF THE LIVING GOD.

HAS THERE EVER BEEN A TIME WHEN THE BIBLE REFLECTS THE NEED TO REFLECT THE VIEWS OF THE WORLD AROUND US TO SHOW HOSPITALITY ? NO JUST THE OPPOSITE .

Living Sacrifices to God

Romans 12 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your ^[b]reasonable service. ² And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

 

By Thomas Littleton                                                                                          11/22/2019                  WHY THE SBC DOES NOT NEED MORE ALBERT MOHLER LEADERSHIP

The Southern Baptist Convention is in trouble. Few doubt this reality. Many anticipate the SBC will split in the very near future over deepening divides like the false social justice gospel , women in the pulpits ,Revoice LGBT+ flourishing in the church and the open promotion of Critical Race Theory as a useful tool . An Albert Mohler SBC Presidency is seen by some as the answer to all that troubles Southern Baptist .

Mohler, prominent Southern Baptist, will be nominated to lead denomination

Is Mohler the answer ?  A close look at Albert  Mohler during all this proves he is at the epicenter of the problems plaguing Southern Baptist . One stark example is Mohler has boasted the pro egalitarian  #MeToo movement coming into the church is  the “Wrath of God Poured Out” on the SBC .

SOME REALITY CHECKS 

The persons who played the most active role in creating  the present atmosphere of division and “us against them ” climate in the SBC and who are driving the talking points of Social Justice , women’s rights , and Critical Race Theory / Intersectionality are part of the Mohler run SBTS institutions. Albert Mohler 20 plus year protege’ Russell Moore is the most polarizing figure , by design , in the SBC landscape . Most of the African American’s giving leadership to CRT promotion as a “useful analytical  tool when used with the Gospel ” are Mohler employees.

The emergence in 2018  of  the Revoice “LGBT+ Flourishing in (Conservative) Historic Tradition ” (like the SBC) was founded by one of Mohler’s long time SBTS disciples Nate Collins. Collins spent 14 1/2 years ,earned two degrees  at Mohler’s seminary , is the son of a faculty member, authored his pro LGBT+ Christian book “All But Invisible” AND launched Revoice while TEACHING NEW TESTAMENT  for Albert Mohler .

“ALMOST AL’s” HISTORY AS AN UNCERTAIN CONSERVATIVE 

Mohler enjoys great public respect for his reputation reforming SBTS and “saving it from the hands of liberals” in 1993 .While history makes Mohler out to be the brave conservative champion who played a major role in the “conservative resurgence”- Mohler’s close friend  MARK DEVER  of 9 MARKS confirms that during his formative years in two SBC institutions Mohler was “an egalitarian and DID NOT BELIEVE IN THE INERRANCY OF SCRIPTURE”.

https://founders.org/interviews/reformation-and-the-sbc-a-round-table-interview-with-tom-ascol-mark-dever-and-jared-longshore/

( Watch the last 15 minutes of this 2017 interview with Founders Ministries Tom Ascol )

JARED LONGSHORE, MARK DEVER, TOM ASCOL

“In this interview, Jared Longshore asks Tom Ascol and Mark Dever about their 30+ year friendship, the reformation in Baptist life which has occurred over that time, and some counsel for the future work of gospel ministry.”

ALMOST AL MOHLER AND HIS MOST CELEBRATED PROTEGE’ RUSSELL MOORE . WHY ARE  SOME BAPTIST  BLIND TO THE MOHLER/MOORE RELATIONSHIP ?

(MOORE SPEAKING UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE OF MENTOR ALBERT MOHLER )

It is certainly not news that MANY Southern Baptist do not like Russell Moore. Moore launched his leadership of the ERLC in 2013 by declaring the “Culture war was over- we lost and we should stop the hateful rhetoric and just love our gay and lesbian neighbors”.

MOHLER AND MOORE HISTORY 

Moore is the boyish looking Mississippi Democrat who Mohler helped educate and who Mohler employed at SBTS for 20 YEARS before his ascent to the ERLC. Unlike Mohler, Russell Moore likes his high visibility role in the SBC. For some reason many who see Russell Moore for who he is fail to connect Moore to his mentor “Almost Al” Mohler .

MOHLER FROM 2013 INAUGURATION OF RUSSELL MOORE

MARKED URGENT

“The Man from Issachar—An Address at the Inauguration of Russell D. Moore”

“First, I point to the character and giftedness of this man. I can remember the very first conversation I had with Russell Moore. In that first meeting, I caught a glimpse of his intelligence, his conviction, and his ambitions. I knew then that he was out to change the world, but that his first loyalty and constant horizon is not this world, but the world that is already but not yet—in other words, not the kingdoms of this world but the Kingdom of our God and of His Christ.”

“His intellect is first rate, as is his scholarship. He came as a Doctor of Philosophy student and transformed his doctoral dissertation into a manifesto for kingdom ministry and cultural engagement. His intelligence is energetic and his wit always on hand. To talk with Russ is to enter into a world of ideas undergirded by conviction and footnoted with readings.”

“He is not merely fascinated by ideas, he is a true public intellectual. He belongs to that class of thinkers who are not merely collectors of ideas but movers of minds. He is a master of communicating those ideas and he knows how to make truth come alive as a living force.”

“He is one of the most natural conversationalists I have ever encountered. He is like the Victorians who could enter any room and join the conversation and immediately add to it. He is a voracious reader who is a walking bibliography and a library on legs. He comes alive when a book or an idea or a problem or a personality comes to attention.”

“In 1 Chronicles 12:32, we read of the men of the tribe of Issachar, “who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do.” We know Russell Moore as a man from Mississippi. I think he is really a man from Issachar. I think he has an understanding of the times, and he knows what God’s people ought to do.”

“”The man and the moment have come together and, like you, I don’t for a moment believe it is a coincidence.

https://albertmohler.com/2013/09/12/the-man-from-issachar-an-address-at-the-inauguration-of-russell-d-moore

RUSSELL MOORE – NEVER TRUMPER WAS PLACED ON A SHORT LEASH BY THE SBC BUT NOW OPENLY PARADES HIS  COZY RELATIONSHIP TO OBAMA POWERBROKERS 

At 20 years old Michael Wear was appointed to Obama’s Faith Based Partnership leadership in 2008 and then served as his Faith Outreach coordinator for the 2012 re-election campaign. Today he serves as the Obama Foundation Ambassador to America’s Believers”.

Al Mohler’s protege’  Russell Moore and Michael Wear work TOGETHER in The Gospel Coalition and the Social Justice movement . Moore and Wear just appeared AGAIN in the open borders funded National Immigration Forum pushing for amnesty and for more MUSLIM refugee resettlement in the US in the name of “immigration reform”.

WEAR AND THE & CAMPAIGN 

Also Wear just recently helped launch the 2020 election statement of the “& Campaign” which seeks to influence CHRISTIAN VOTERS toward progressive political views marketing them as “Biblical Values & Social Justice”

Mohler’s Protege’ Moore endorsed the Michael Wear book “Reclaiming Hope ” about Wear’s years in the Obama Administration.

“We can Hope, this book Can Help us”. Russell Moore

HOPE FOR WHAT RUSSELL MOORE? A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT AND MORE PROGRESSIVE POLICY IN 2020? AGAIN MOORE IS MOHLER’S DISCIPLE 

http://michaelwear.com/blog/2017/5/11/reviews-of-reclaiming-hope

“Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of America (Nelson Books; $25.99; see our 20% off sale price at the order link below.)  I think many readers will enjoy it, will learn much, and that regardless of one’s affiliation (or non-affiliation) with a political party, it will be a valuable, even important read.  The book is graced with bunches of rave reviews from significant political leaders from across the political spectrum (from several countries, no less) and many respected Christian leaders – from Tim Keller to Russell Moore, pundits, (from Kirsten Powers to E. J. Dionne) and writers as different as J.D. Vance and Ann Voskamp, all insisting this is an important, graceful book.”

“ALMOST AL” MOHLER PROTEGE’ PUSHING BETH MOORE INTO SBC LEADERSHIP

REMEMBER AGAIN DEVER CONFIRMS MOHLER’S EGALITARIAN HISTORY IN THE FOUNDERS INTERVIEW

ALSO REMEMBER ALBERT MOHLER WANTS IS TO THINK THE #MeToo MOVEMENT HE HELPED COORDINATE AGAINST SWBTS PAIGE PATTERSON WAS “THE WRATH OF GOD BEING POURED OUT ON THE SBC”.

https://albertmohler.com/2018/05/23/wrath-god-poured-humiliation-southern-baptist-convention/

https://erlc.com/resource-library/author-index/beth-moore

“Beth founded Living Proof Ministries in 1994 with the purpose of teaching women how to love and live on God’s Word. She has written numerous books and Bible studies that have been read by women of all ages, races, and denominations. Through the years, American missionaries and expatriates have taken the Bible studies overseas, resulting in Beth Moore Bible study groups popping up all over the world. Beth’s Living Proof Live conferences have taken her to all fifty states since 1994.”

RUSSELL MOORE HAS BEEN ON A BETH MOORE TARE FOR YEARS.

Beth Moore reignites debate over whether women can preach

The  #Metoo movement has been the perfect tool for Mohler disciple Russell Moore to drive the issue of women in ministry in the SBC in order ” to prevent more sexual abuse and the covering up of abuse”. Russell has made her part of his effort to launch a task force of “SBC Brown Shirts” to seek out , INVESTIGATE and address reports of sexual abuse. These efforts culminated at the 2019 SBC annual meetings in Birmingham Alabama in the approval of the “Repurposed Standing Credentials Committee “. The Committee makes possible a  power grab over local church autonomy and a perfect vehicle for driving the #MeToo movement in the SBC to desired end of some  : total pro egalitarian policy.

(SBC present leadership seems to like creating theater  to drive it’s political views and goals the recent Naples FBC dust up over racism over  an SBC Executive Committee Members failed bid for the pastorate looks to be the perfect case for the “Committee’s” intervention and in Florida where the 2020 Convention will be held.)

FLORIDA SBC 2020 LOOKS TO BE SETTING THE STAGE 

The Standing Credentials Committee, according to Mohler trained  leader Curtis Brown,  will also address racial and homosexual discrimination /abuse issues in SBC churches . “BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) — Sexual abuse and racism would draw heightened action within the Southern Baptist Convention under recommendations to be considered during the June 11-12 SBC annual meeting in Birmingham, Ala.”
“A key recommendation, approved by the SBC Executive Committee in its June 10 meeting, calls for repurposing the SBC Credentials Committee to field claims against churches in regard to SEXUAL ABUSE and DISCRIMINATION  based on ETHNICITY  as well as matters such as HOMOSEXUALITY  that would call their relationship with the SBC into question.” ( NOTE that Discrimination is the only target here but not only against women .This is the social justice VICTIM COALITION framed by Cultural Marxist thought)

WHAT IS CULTURAL MARXISM, CRITICAL RACE THEORY , SOCIAL JUSTICE ORIGINS , EVOLUTION AND OUTCOMES? WHY ARE THE CHURCH AND CONSERVATIVE VIEWS ON FAMILY ,POLITICS , SEXUALITY AND EVEN ECONOMICS IT’S TARGET ?

READ HERE IN A SECULAR VIEW OF THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE

https://thepolicy.us/cultural-marxism-the-origins-of-the-present-day-social-justice-movement-and-political-correctness-ffb89c6ef4f1?gi=6d8644ffd92e

MOHLER /MOORE AND LGBTQ+ 

MOHLER AND MOORE DISAVOW THE GOSPEL /OWN LGBT ORIENTATION IN 2014 ERLC CONFERENCE TOGETHER  THE LGBTQ+ SBC CONFERENCE THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING AND NOTHING .

In 2014 the ERLC held its game changer event on the LGBT+ narrative .

THE ERLC National Conference on “The Gospel, Homosexuality, and the Future of Marriage”

https://erlc.com/resource-library/event-messages/by-conference/2014-national-conference

In his opening speech Albert Mohler completely abandoned his long asserted Biblical stance denying the existence of a  “homosexeual orientation ” . Mohler apologized for himself and Southern Baptist for being “wrong about sexual orientation “. Mohler then owned  the APA version of human sexual norms  and then abandoned so called “ex gay ministries” and efforts to help people wanting out of homosexuality .

Aftermath: Ministering In A Post-Marriage Culture (Albert Mohler)

After raising eyebrows ( and grave concerns ) with the ERLC homosexual orientation speech Al Mohler set out to explain in this episode of “The Briefing ”

https://albertmohler.com/2014/11/13/sexual-orientation-and-the-gospel-of-jesus-christ/

“One of these issues is sexual orientation. As I explained in my address, I had previously denied the existence of sexual orientation. I, along with many other evangelicals, did so because we did not want to accept the sexual identity structure that so often goes with sexual orientation. I still reject that notion of sexual identity. But I repented of denying the existence of sexual orientation because denying it was deeply confusing to people struggling with same-sex attraction. Biblical Christians properly resist any suggestion that our will can be totally separated from sexual desire, but we really do understand that the will is not a sufficient explanation for a pattern of sexual attraction. Put simply, most people experiencing a same-sex attraction tell of discovering it within themselves at a very early age, certainly within early puberty. As they experience it, a sexual attraction or interest simply “happens,” and they come to know it.”

Yet Mohler’s historic 2005 Biblical denial of the APA and LGBT+ activist  efforts to normalize homosexuality via the assertion of “Homosexual Sexual Orientation “was clearly explained in a statement linked below  .

Why did he change his position given what he admits the Authority of SCRIPTURE is at stake in abandoning the Biblical position  for the “orientation narrative ?

NOTE THE 2005 POSITION OF MOHLER ON THE BIBLICAL VS ORIENTATION NARRATIVE

““The critical issue used as a hermeneutical device by the revisionists is the concept of sexual orientation. The modern “discovery” of sexual orientation is used to deny the truth claim clearly and inescapably made within the biblical text. For example, in regard to the Romans text, Janet Fishburn of Drew University Theological School argues: “Yet, some biblical scholars point out that this passage can only refer to the homosexual acts of heterosexual persons. This is because the writers of the Bible did not distinguish between homosexual orientation and same-gender sexual acts. If this distinction is accepted, the condemnation of homosexuality in Romans does not apply to the sexual acts of homosexual persons.”

https://albertmohler.com/2005/10/04/homosexuality-in-theological-perspective-part-two/

IN MOHLER’S ERLC 2014 SPEECH AT PROTEGE’ RUSSELL MOORE’S EVENT MOHLER TOOK THE SBC TALKING POINTS OUTSIDE THE AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE AND INTO THE ACTIVIST LANGUAGE AND FRAMEWORK. 

This ERLC 2014 event also introduced a herd of new speakers  like Sam Allberry , Rosaria Butterfield , Christopher Yuan , Jacky Hill Perry. They along with other Same Sex Attracted “Christians ” engage an ongoing conversation in the SBC to hard sell homosexual orientation and engage the ERLC’s and TGC Process of Social Change in the SBC and conservative Christian churches and institutions .

Some Further coverage of the 2014 event

https://www.baptistmessenger.com/qa-with-albert-mohler-russell-moore/

The Grace of Shame: Al Mohler’s homosexual orientation error (1)…

IMMIGRATION “REFORM ” AKA OPEN BORDERS SOCIETY AGENDA 

MOHLER DISCIPLE RUSSELL MOORE’S ONGOING WORK WITH “IMMIGRATION ” THROUGH OPEN BORDERS FUNDED NIF

Al Mohler disciple Russell Moore has continued his role in the National Immigration Forum’s Evangelical Immigration Roundtable even after its “Open Borders “/ SOROS  funding was exposed over 6 years ago. This work includes far left liberals like Jim Wallis  and Obama’s Michael Wear. Moore recently appeared again in the NIF event this time with Michael Wear .

Click to access LTW-2019-Agenda-External-Use.pdf

THEIR TOPIC

“A Civil Discourse
How do we bridge ideological differences and come together for meaningful change?
❖ Moderator: Michael Wear, Chief Strategist, The AND Campaign
❖ Dr. Russell Moore, President, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern
Baptist Convention
❖ Cherie Harder, President, The Trinity Forum”

MOHLER’S CRITICAL RACE THEORY DISCIPLES 

Mohler was part of the 2015 book “Removing the Stain of Racism in the SBC” .At the SBC Dallas 2018 meetings they featured the three year old book on the CP stage and free copies of it were provided in the press room .A stage panel presentation of the book in 2018 including Mohler made a casual mention of Critical Race Theory but did not draw any attention to it. This was perhaps best understood as a public test run of CRT for SBC 2019 in Birmingham where some of the very same SBTS/ Mohler disciples took CRT to CENTER STAGE  in Resolution 9 “approving CRT and Intersectionality as a useful analytical tools with the gospel ” ( for identifying discrimination would be the implication of its use).

The Gospel Coalition of which Albert Mohler is a part also promoted this event to it’s Themelios pastors audience .

http://themelios.thegospelcoalition.org/review/removing-the-stain-of-racism-from-the-southern-baptist-convention

Jarvis Williams and  Curtis Woods are both SBTS educated and part of the CRT practitioners in the SBC . Both served in the 2019 Resolutions Committee which altered the resolution condemning CRT into an affirmation of it. Both teach at SBTS under Mohler .

JARVIS WILLIAMS AT SBTS

https://www.sbts.edu/academics/faculty/jarvis-williams/

CURTIS WOODS AT SBTS

https://www.sbts.edu/academics/faculty/curtis-woods/

This same team of CRT experts led a two year effort to purge SBTS of it’s own history of racism which went public  in December 2018. The “report ” exposes some horrific history like that of Joseph Emerson Brown whose wealth and “generosity” twice “saved SBTS” from bankruptcy and endowed a Theological Chair at SBTS .

“Almost Al” Mohler and the Report stop short of exposing that Albert Mohler sits on the racist Joseph Emerson Brown’s endowed Chair of Theology at SBTS. It took  a student confronting Mohler in one of his “Ask Me Anything ” public appearances to bring out that fact.

ALMOST TRUTH ON LGBTQ+ REVOICE 

THE WHOLE REVOICE STORY AL MOHLER WILL NOT TELL 

Revoice is promoting LGBT+ Flourishing under the banner of  SIDE B “celibacy or mixed orientation  marriage ”

Nate Collins is Revoice founder and is an SBTS long time student , graduate and New Testament Teacher at the time Revoice was founded .

https://web.archive.org/web/20180629052224/http://www.revoice.us/

https://independent.academia.edu/NateCollins3

COLLINS DISSERTATION IS BASED ON FEMININE GENDER AND QUEER THEORY

“Virgin” as Secondary Gender Identity in 1 Corinthians 7 and Its Jewish and Greco-Roman Background

https://repository.sbts.edu/bitstream/handle/10392/5716/Collins_sbts_0207D_10474.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

REVOICE FOUNDER’S SBTS CRITICAL THEORY DISSERTATION:TGC TIES PART 2

Revoice Nate Collins taught New Testament at Mohler’s SBTS as Nate and his father Chip, also a teacher at Boyce College SBTS undergrad were working with Exodus International during it’s 2013 collapse . This was the start of abandon of the idea of EX GAY MINISTRIES . It was also SBTS Collins who reviewed and promoted Sam Allberry’s book”Is God Anti Gay” for The Gospel Coalition as Allberry was launched to the US church audience by the 2014  ERLC “Homosexual Orientation “conference of Mohler and Moore .

THE REVOICE CONTROVERSY WAS HUGE AND MAY YET PLAY A KEY ROLE IN SPLITTING THE SBC AND CONSERVATIVE PRESBYTERIANS LIKE THE PCA

In Al Mohler’s belated “Almost” condemnation of Revoice in August 2 2018 episode of The Briefing  Mohler at LONG LAST  mentions Nates Collins . In fact he names Collins 9 times but NEVER CONNECTS Nate Collins to SBTS -Mohler’s seminary

https://albertmohler.com/2018/08/02/torn-two-cultures-revoice-lgbt-identity-biblical-christianity/

CAN TWO WALK TOGETHER UNLESS THEY ARE AGREED ?

MOHLER AND MOORE NOW HAVE A NEARLY THIRTY YEAR HISTORY.

(From 2013 “Southern Baptist Theological Seminary’s outgoing theology school dean Russell Moore, left, and President R. Albert Mohler Jr., lead a graduation procession at the seminary on Friday, May 17. Moore, who has also been the senior vice president for academic administration, officially becomes the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission on June 1. Photo courtesy of Emil Handke/Southern Baptist Theological Seminary”)

“Almost Al” Mohler and Russell Moore are birds of a feather. Mohler , according to good friend Mark Dever and Founders Ministries , held very liberal views as a young  undergrad at Samford University . Mohler then attended liberal SBTS for his graduate degrees. The “conservative Mohler ” emerged SUDDENLY  to the shock of both his liberal friends and his new found conservative resurgence companions in the SBC.

TODAY overwhelming indicators from SBTS role in Critical Race Theory and Revoice to Mohler protege Russell Moore’s push of Beth Moore and Obama Foundation politics of Michael Wear prove the influence of Mohler in the SBC could  hardly be viewed as conservative at all.

In recent days Mohler’s presidential aspirations were lauded by liberal non profit publication Religion News Service . In the article RNS portrays Mohler as the moderate uniter .

Mohler, prominent Southern Baptist, will be nominated to lead denomination

So who is “Almost Al” Mohler really? Is he the same man of his youth – a pro egalitarian and anti- inerrancy student who changed his appearance ,climbed the SBC ladder and simply hid among the conservative resurgence leaders for decades at SBTS? Or has the reborn truly conservative Al Mohler backslidden into his old ways ? Can Mohler be the “moderate uniter” as the RNS now seeks to portray him as they further seek to vilify the conservative resurgence as RACIST?

The one certainty is that Albert Mohler has already been leading the Southern Baptist for years and we still really do not know who he is.

What we should know is we do not need him for SBC President nor do we need the Obama Politics of his protege’ Moore  nor the promotion of more Beth Moore  by Moore in the SBC. We do NOT NEED the CRT of Mohler’s  hand picked minority task force at SBTS nor the Revoicing for LGBT Flourishing of Mohler’s long time disciple SBTS New Testament professor Nate Collins.

The SBC needs help. It has had more than enough of Almost Al Mohler .

THE CHURCH IN AMERICA IS BEYOND THE TIPPING POINT AND WE HAVE LITTLE TIME TO RESPOND  IF IT IS TO RECOVER. 

By Thomas Littleton                                                                                                         11/12/2019

GETTING PERSONAL

I am a Southern baptist and a “street ” evangelist for the last 42 years . This simply means that most of my time in ministry has been focused outward and not on the day to day happenings inside the church structures like the denominations and seminaries .  However 2009-2010 brought a disturbing awareness of compromises deep within those structures and among popular leaders as a drastic shift was taking place .This shift became a  painful and personal reality to me.

The church in America is in DEEP trouble . Many no longer hear the true Gospel from our pulpits. Social change has replaced transformed lives . Equity and Justice echo from our pulpits like false prophets at Jezebels alters of BAAL .The house of God is scheduled to become nothing more than a hub of community development, dispensing social equity and social services. This is not  a joke.

It does not matter if you are reformed Presbyterian or a traditional Southern Baptist or are a member of an independent community or bible church .We have all been invaded and infiltrated on a level not seen before in American history . If you are simply a Biblical Christian by conviction and your conviction holds fast in the way you raise your family- engage the world around you and how you vote- then YOU ARE UNDER ASSAULT! I want to explain what I know of this infiltration and how it is happening and what ,if anything can be done about it ? At least knowledge is power in protecting your faith and your family .

Thomas Littleton

A PROMISE KEPT 

I have promised many people a condensed overview of what is happening in and to the church. If I had 20 minutes to warn  the entire Body of Christ thesare the things I would show them. Here it is for those who want to know.

First I will answer a VERY COMMON question I am often asked.

“How did you get involved in researching and exposing all of this compromise by our leaders? “.

This will make clear both my motive and the shared concern we have as we consider what is at stake as deceivers lead the church down the pathway of a false gospel / social justice / and endless processes of social change within society and the church.

Second I want to expose the origins and funding  and explain why THESE are not Gospel movements but are high level manipulations of the church into participation in progressive global ideologies – and out of  it’s redemptive role as salt and light in our culture .

FIRST QUESTION

PARADISE BETRAYED :A PERSONAL LOSS TO THE LGBTQ AGENDA INSPIRED THE STRUGGLE FOR THE CHURCH.

(If you not care to know the history of why I am personally involved in this stand -feel free to scroll down to the main section .Thank you .)

I do not pretend to know all the ins and outs of the activist culture that predominates the church at this point but I do know that no other area of compromise makes the issue of infiltration move evident and the depths of it more glaring than the pro ” LGBTQ Christianity “movement which is now “flourishing ” in our conservative institutions and churches. After ministering in evangelism in New York City over  a decade at the height of the AIDS epidemic as spread rabidly and unchecked through the “gay bath houses” around the city our ministry group had an intense view of those realities on the streets with the prostitutes, “transvestites “and in the so called “Welfare” or “AIDS  Hotels” where the city of NY warehoused AIDS victims until they died. These pits of despair were like discovering Nazi death camps filled with mostly young men wasting away and clinging to life. The sounds -the smells- the horrible realities we saw were unthinkable. This “lifestyle “and the sexual activity that lends it’s name to it cannot be Christianized and should never be “normalized” and encouraged to our children as we see taking place

HONESTY IS NOT HATE SPEECH 

Being against the global LGBTQ agenda is not being hateful ,homophobic or “against gay people “in the least. It is being honest and holding on to the one thing we as the church has to offer to all people bound by sin…freedom from sin by saving faith in Jesus. Many in our pulpits today are preaching a false narrative that the Gospel cannot change people -especially  those who struggle with some range of LGBTQ feelings or “identity ” .Any man who preaches this is faithless and deceived or has bowed his knee to the politics  and likely the funding behind one of the deadlies agendas of our time. The popular SSA but celibate narrative is fake and the product of social theory and change in the church. STOP using it and tell you pastor if he does that he is being deceived.

The LGBTQ agenda is a tool of the most extreme enemies of human rights . It is carefully crafted to redefine family, sexuality , reproduction, parental rights  and even Gender . Transgenderism even redefines what it means to be human and robs EVERYONE of all individual human rights.

LGBTQ is also targeting and designed to redefine the Gospel and push tolerance and inclusion of a sin that utterly destroys lives and families. Church Leaders like Albert Mohler, Russell Moore , Ed Stetzer of the SBC and Tim Keller ,Ligon Duncan , Randy Pope, Kevin DeYoung and the entire leadership of organizations like The Gospel Coalition have thrown in their lot to provide “social change” in the church. Victim and sexual minority narratives wrapped in scripture and a stable of SSA and so called “gay Christians ” unchanged by the Gospel are hired to CHANGE the  attitudes of the church  toward LGBTQ and other politcal left ideologies. These victim narratives  are straight out of the Frankfurt School playbook . If this sounds impossible to believe simply please take the time to read the main section of this letter and you will see how and why this is taking place..

PARADISE GARDENS A FIGHT FOR MY LIFE AND THE TESTIMONY OF A FRIEND 

I was heading a project in Georgia which utilized the legacy of a Christian artist to access students and art community with the Gospel .I did art festivals ,museum lectures ,served as a chaplain  to the arts community and undertook a massive  historic preservation project of an artist prayer garden to proclaim a faithful Gospel witness . The popularity of that legacy gave us global access far and wide to a unique and challenging opportunity  of witness. But funding was a nearly impossible uphill battle in the secular , spiritually dark and  pro gay world of art and liberal funding foundations. Over 10 years of effort and my own “retirement ” funds were invested in an attempt to launch the projects preservation success .

After over a decade of heart felt passion and hard work was poured into the project and it advanced inch by painful inch. The National Park Service took note of our efforts (or so we thought). BUT in fact the Obama administration had flooded EVERY Federal Agency including NPS / Department of the Interior with pro LGBTQ activst and funding . Simply because several noted gay artist had visited the gardens in its history -our project had captured not only the interest of NPS but also the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation , the US Congressional Offices of then Representative Phil Gingrey, The Appalachian Regional Commission , and the local County Commissioner in Georgia. Unknown to us-these organizations were following and rushing into the Obama era funding for projects that advanced the LGBTQ agenda and even it’s history . The central goal was obtaining the funding and the prayer garden of  a country Baptist minister turned folk artist was destined to feature the work of gay  artist like Keith Haring -who ironically died of AIDS in his early 30s as a result of his sexual addiction and the “days on end” he spent in the gay bath houses of NYC.

Thinking we had found allies and advocates in high places we entered ( under my leadership and encouragement ) into a partnership with the above entities and their leaders. But only two weeks after funding was obtained -our project was high-jacked and total control was seized by a staffer of the Congressional offices . Our remaining entrance to the property was literally walled out of the historic site we had worked for over a decade to preserve. I was am am to this day barred from the site under threat of arrest . A bisexual  Director was given charge of our project site.

YES EVEN THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WAS IN THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT 

After learning of the NPS and the LGBTQ agenda we stood firm .I fought against the Congressional office – the local  county and even the Federal agencies involved as we gained proof of fraud with the federal grants involved . At one point the struggle was one Christian Street Preacher against a U S Congressman and nearly a dozen law firms- two of which were among Atlanta and the nation’s largest. Control was now in the hands the Congressional offices of Phil Gingrey – a GOP “conservative ” who were discovered to be using the FBI- the Capitol  Hill Police -the local County Sheriff and my own hometown police to try and dig up some kind of  dirt on and or  intimidate me out of resistance .

THE CHURCH LEADERS WERE / ARE… MIA in the battle for Paradise !

I reached out to local pastors -especially the Baptist pastors being  a Baptist myself as was the artist whose legacy we sought to preserve. I also reached out to leaders of three different state Baptist associations  and to the national offices of the Southern Baptist Convention. NO HELP came. No one would even condemn what had taken place with the legacy of a Baptist minister who pastored SBC churches for over 40 years in the community.

A local meeting of pastors was set  but canceled because of the corrupt influence of the First Baptist Church pastor who was friends with County attorney who helped in the hijacking . Also I reached out to the SBCs ERLC and Russell Moore in early 2013  when he represented new young blood coming into the SBC who might “understand” our efforts and the struggle we were in . We received NO moral support or standing with our effort from ANY Christian , let alone any Baptist organization . NONE.

By 2014 we had totally lost our project . The  Christian legacy of a deceased Southern Baptist minister and personal friend Howard Finster was turned a platform for featuring  the NPS LGBTQ history intitiative . Paradise Gardens a Baptist pastor’s prayer garden became a platform to feature the history of other gay artist who had visited the site while the Christian history of Rev Finster was erased.

THE STRUGGLE  IS NEVER ENDING 

TODAY the fence surrounding Paradise Garden and the classes offered to the elementary school  classes who come there proudly feature gay artist  Keith Haring’s art over Rev Finster’s  Funding over over a million dollars flooded into the hijackers coffers  for “Creative Placemaking ”  a pro LGBTQ development ideology embraced by both Federal and local governments and private grant makers .

Once again Paradise was Lost. But we continue to stand – I continue to pray God will redeem this wonderful door of ministry. Yet the most disturbing things we discovered were how ignorant the church is of the real agenda AND how faithless the pastors had become to stand against it. SOMETHING HAD CHANGED and SOMEONE INSIDE THE LEADERSHIP HAD GIVEN THE CHURCH orders to STAND DOWN  on the LGBTQ agenda .

I began to dig to know ” who and what and when and why .

Meanwhile we are making lemons into lemonade and exposing all we learned to the church . Men meant this for evil but God allowed it for greater KINGDOM good. THIS is how I got involved in exposing the deadly compromise in the church.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/is-the-national-park-service-queering-history

SECOND WHAT IS GOING ON AND HOW DID THIS HAPPEN ?

MAIN SECTION OF OPEN LETTER TO THE CHURCH 

THE CRISIS IN THE CHURCH

Influences in the current crisis among PCA and SBC Churches

https://oikonomianetwork.org/about/

FAITH AND WORK OUT OF YALE NOT THE WORD OF GOD.

Faith and Work networking is out of Yale University – that should be a clue that ist is neither biblical nor conservative .

https://faith.yale.edu/

RTS is not listed but it is infiltrated by the ideology via Keller  from his work in Orlando with RTS and CRU

KELLER’S BRAND OF THE KERN /YALE IDEOLOGY 

Tim Keller’s branding  – Center for Faith and Work

https://faithandwork.com/

This “movement ” is where the insane overuse of the term “Human Flourishing “by Tim Keller and the TGC echos  all comes from- and from the leftist think tanks like Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture . It is all is driven by the “Common Good “Narrative as is the Obama “FBP “Partnerships for the Common Good ”

FOLLOWING THE KERN ACTON INFLUENCE

Kern Funding goes into the “Cultural Engagement Departments ” on campus like SEBTS where it is known as the ” Intersect Project ”

http://intersectproject.org/about/

and SBTS where it is called The Commonweal Project”

Work to the glory of God, Mohler says in Commonweal Project lecture

ALBERT MOHLER /SBTS AND KERN FUNDING 

“In the first of a series of Commonweal lecture luncheons this fall, Mohler provided an overview of economics and the importance of understanding it from a biblical worldview. The Commonweal Project on Faith, Work, and Human Flourishing, funded by the Kern family, is an academic initiative at the seminary to foster a theology of work and economics.”

“Most Americans, and this would include most American Christians, know abysmally little about economics — have very little idea of how matters of economics intersect with matters biblically and operate out of a Christian worldview,”

“Seminary president R. Albert Mohler Jr. delivers a lecture for the Commonweal Project, Sept. 3. 2014 “

FAITH AND WORK = SOCIAL JUSTICE aka VINTAGE COMMUNITARIANISM 

SYNCHRONIZING THE CHURCHES POLITICS WITH THE FUNDING 

HOW IS THE SOCIAL JUSTICE GOSPEL IMPREGNATING EVANGELICALS MINISTRY VISION AND IT’S POLITICS ? ANSWER – SAME OLD SONG AND DANCE OF LEADERSHIP NETWORK AND THE GATHERING . NOW &CAMPAIGN TAKES THE NEXT STEP LEFT .

Rev Thomas Littleton                                                                                          11/9/2019

For decades the evangelical  church has been invaded and infiltrated . How? The answer is simple – by MONEY and lots of it . With the funding has come a massive amount of influence from people, organizations and “thought leaders” whose goals have nothing to do with the true Biblical mission of the church. In the last couple of years things have grown far worse as the overt effort to wed “Biblical values & social justice” exploded . & Campaign is just the latest and now one of the most obvious of such efforts among conservative Christians  .

For thirty five years the influence of one organization ,Leadership Network , has been pervasive .You would likely have never heard of Bill Hybels  of Willowcreek or Tim Keller , or Randy Pope of the conservative Presbyterian Church of America (PCA) or Rick Warren, Ed Stetzer of the conservative Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) if not for their involvement with the organization.

It is highly likely there would be no “Gospel Coalition “(TGC) . ACTS 29 and other church planting organizations would not even exist without Leadership Network. Today they are names familiar to most in their circles and denominations and are sought after speakers whose ministry models are followed globally. Fifteen years ago they would  not dare to have been so open about the sources behind them or the progressive politics they promote. But the fruit of these men’s associations is now evident in the current trajectory of their ministries and in the progressive politics of their disciples.

How much  have things  changed ? A generation discipled in our own seminaries , who embrace the ideologies and the money brought with it- are now openly part of the left wing political  leadership even attempting to alter Christians positions on open borders,  sexuality and abortion and driving socialist economics while openly boasting their goal to  “Create the new politics of the the church”.

Tim Keller ,Rick Warren and their companions must be proud . Never mind the fundamental betrayal their entire careers appear to represent .

& CAMPAIGN – THE NEW EVANGELICAL POLITICS OUT OF THE CLOSET AND IN YOUR FACE  

The progressive & Campaign lead by Michael Wear of Obama’s Faith advisor now dubbed the “Obama Ambassador to America’s Believers ” and the Atlanta based Democratic Party strategist Justin Giboney is coming out and into full view in the 2020 election cycle.It is just one example of the 2020 effort but glaring in it’s brazen deception as a third way middle of the road movement with not a single voice from the conservative side .

GOING WHERE THE MONEY IS 

PRAXIS JOURNAL FEATURED THE WORK OF &CAMPAIGN AT THE GATHERING 2018

https://journal.praxislabs.org/justin-giboney-michael-wear-and-campaign-b41d3e703d5e

The Praxis Journal

The Praxis Journal featured Giboney and Wear/& Campaign  on stage in their segment at The Gathering . ( Note: Former Christianity Today editor Andy Crouch is a team member of Praxis https://www.praxislabs.org/team/ )

WORDS MATTER 

“Praxis (from Ancient Greek: πρᾶξις, romanized: praxis) is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realized. “Praxis” may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas. This has been a recurrent topic in the field of philosophy, discussed in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Francis Bacon, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Paulo Freire, Ludwig von Mises, and many others. It has meaning in the political, educational, spiritual and medical realms”

FRANKFURT SCHOOL CULTURAL MARXISM AND “PRAXIS”

”  Young Hegelian philosopher August Cieszkowski was one of the earliest philosophers to use the term praxis as meaning “action oriented towards changing society” in his 1838 work Prolegomena zur Historiosophie (Prolegomena to a Historiosophy). The 19th century socialist Antonio Labriola called Marxism the “philosophy of praxis”.^[5][6] This description of Marxism would appear again in Antonio Gramsci‘s Prison Notebooks^[7] and the writings of the members of the Frankfurt School.^[8]“

PRACTICING PRAXIS IN THE EVANGELICAL WORLD PAYS WELL.

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“The AND Campaign equips people to be active Christian witnesses in the public square and helps to unite the church through training, coalition building, and advocacy.”

(Justin Giboney & Michael Wear (Praxis Nonprofit Fellows 2018) pitch their venture, AND Campaign, during the Nonprofit Accelerator Finale segment of The Gathering in Miami, FL, September 2018)

“The AND Campaign is a coalition of urban Christians  ( ACTUALLY LEADERSHIP IS PROVIDED BY MANY TGC PASTORS) who are determined to address the sociopolitical arena with the compassion and conviction of the Gospel. Through training, coalition building, and advocacy, they equip Christians to be more than just conservatives or liberals in the public square. By opening up denominational and demographic silos, they help believers have a greater impact and further pursue reconciliation.”

HOW CHURCH PLANTING REDISTRICTED THE DENOMINATIONS 

“& CAMPAIGN IS A COALITION OF URBAN PASTORS ”

It is not made clear  to the reader but certainly important to notice that the churches this coalition of Urban Pastor operate are largely from denominational and affiliated church planting organization like the Southern Baptist North American Missions Board / Send Network and the TGC affiliated organizations that work within the denominations like 9MARKS and ACTS 29 planting networks. Like the Democratic Party whose governors win state elections at the turn of a decade as the census is conducted – these leaders have redistricted our denominations one church plant at a time and used our own funding (plus that of these outside influences)  and missions organizations to do it .

PRAXIS AT THE GATHERING WITH &CAMPAIGN AND RUSSELL MOORE 

The Gathering is with Mat Clouse and Josh Kwan.

August 9, 2018 · 

We look forward to having Praxis with us again this year for their nonprofit accelerator finale at #gathkeybiscayne #tbt #gathcarlsbad

The Gathering

September 21, 2018 · 

WHAT IS THE GATHERING 

https://thegathering.com/

“IN 1985, FIVE PEOPLE MET FOR THE FIRST TIME  WITH A VERY SIMPLE AGENDA.”

“They were all engaged in Christian philanthropy and wanted to create a group of like-minded individuals to serve as a source of spiritual encouragement and a sounding board of peers. They wanted to set aside a time each year to find a safe, neutral place to relax, talk, and learn – and to hopefully bring their families. And so The Gathering began.”

“Our mission is to cultivate a community of givers who grow in their effectiveness and mature in their faith, while nurturing the next generation of philanthropists. The expressions of The Gathering have now expanded to include our annual conference of a few hundred people across multiple generations, as well as regional get-togethers and ministry trips throughout the year.”

In short The Gathering draws in big donors and ministries needing funding into the same event – in the same room to commingle and match make .

WARNING :

THIS IS WHY INVITING GIBONEY AND WEAR /&CAMPAIGN INTO THE EVENT IN SEPTEMBER 2018 SIGNALED BIBLICAL VALUES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE = AS SUCCESSFUL DONOR GOALS AND FUNDING LANGUAGE .

WHO IS FRED SMITH ?

“Fred Smith is the Founder of The Gathering, which he led for three decades through the end of 2018. As well, Fred was the Founder of Fourth Partner, a local foundation in Tyler that was focused on philanthropy and community development within the East Texas area. He previously joined Bob Buford in founding Leadership Network, where he served as President for 12 years. Fred spent several years as a teacher and administrator at Charlotte Christian School in North Carolina and The Stony Brook School in New York. He is a Navy veteran and a graduate of Denver University and Harvard Divinity School.”

FRED SMITH IS A MENTOR AT PRAXIS IN IT’S “PRAXIS LABS”

https://praxislabs.org/mentors/individual/fred-smith

OUR MENTORS

A FEW OF THE GATHERINGS PARTNERS 

BOB BUFORD /LEADERSHIP NETWORK

FRED SMITH, BUFORD AND LEADERSHIP NETWORK “TRANSFORMING THE CHURCH”

https://leadnet.org/our-founder/

OUR FOUNDER: BOB BUFORD

(BUFORD IS THE TEXAS BILLIONAIRE WHOSE GREAT ADMIRATION FOR PETER DRUCKER’S MANAGEMENT AND VLADIMIR ( Ilyich Ulyanov ) LENIN’S CENTRALIZED PLANNING BIRTHED LEADERSHIP NETWORK AND CORRALLED A GENERATION OF PASTORS.)

BILL  AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION DOLLARS -LEADERSHIP NETWORK’S RICK WARREN PAVED THE WAY

BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION  funding has been associated with Rick Warren’s global PEACE plan and it’s work in the “Global Health Initiative ” since at least 2007 .

Bill Hybels (another LN product) and his Global Leadership Network( a Leadership Network clone ) have hosted Melinda Gates in its annual GLN conference.

Why is this a problem , especially in global health ? Gates parents long time involvement with Planned Parenthood and support of global population control ARE CORE VALUES  . See Physicians for Life story documenting this disturbing Gates History .

SO LEADERSHIP NETWORK DISCIPLES DO NOT APPEAR TO HESITATE ABOUT GATES FOUNDATION ASSOCIATIONS  – ANY WONDER THE POLITICS OF & CAMPAIGN WERE INTRODUCED AT THE GATHERING ?

GATES FAMILY PRO ABORTION HISTORY 

GATES PBS INTERVIEW -MALTHUSIAN FEARS AND GATES FOUNDATION FUNDING

“In a lengthy interview with Bill Moyers released today, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates reveals the inspiration for his funding of pro-abortion population control measures.”

“Responding to a question by Moyers on how he came to fund “reproductive issues” Gates answered, “When I was growing up, my parents were always involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that. And so it’s fascinating. At the dinner table my parents are very good at sharing the things that they were doing. And almost treating us like adults, talking about that.”

“In the interview Gates says he is moved by measurable progress and on “safe birth reproductive family planning issues” he says.”

“There’s a measurable impact when you can go in and educate families, but primarily women, about their different choices. There’s real impact that you can have in this area. Anything to do with reproductive health.”

“He claims he has seen beyond Malthusian conceptions of useless eaters since, he says, he has seen that by improving health and education population decreases as parents decide to have less children.”

“Despite all his distancing from Malthus, Gates remains steadfast to the unfounded Malthusian fear of overpopulation.”

See the transcript of the interview with Gates at:

http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_gates.html

See The Quiz Gates Failed   http://www.all.org/gates/index.htm

UN POPULATION FUND RECEIVES $57 MIL FROM GATES http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2000/apr/00040504.html

Omaha, NE (LifeNews.com);  May 9, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com)

http://www.physiciansforlife.org/bill-gates-father-head-of-planned-parenthood-inspired-his-abortion-population-control-views/   ( story from 2003 )

OTHER GATES FOUNDATION FUNDING PRIORITIES 

Gates has also been an avid supporter and funder of the very controversial global vaccination movement .

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/healthcare/controversial-vaccine-studies-why-is-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-under-fire-from-critics-in-india/articleshow/41280050.cms

Gates Pro gay marriage and LGBTQ rights  stance is also a problem for Evangelicals who affiliate with tis programs .

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/bill-and-melinda-gates-donate-500k-suppor

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/01/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-gives-140-million-prep-pump-prevent-hiv/

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation programs also include activist training for youth driving social change and social justice .

GATES FOUNDATION FUNDING/TRAINING  YOUNG LEADERS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE 

https://www.discovergates.org/exhibition/wethefuture/

“We the Future showcases the stories of ten young leaders working to build an equitable and inclusive world through their respective social change movements. Inspired by Amplifier’s We the Future education campaign and co-curated with the Gates Foundation Discovery Center’s Youth Ambassador Program, the exhibit celebrates youth leadership and action across a range of social justice issues and invites audiences of all ages to imagine and become the change they want to see in the world.”

YOUNG LEADERS

So is The  Gathering moving Gates Foundation funding into their organization ? (see the post below from Oct 2018 ) Can The Gathering work to couple Christians- both donors and ministries with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ? What is the wisdom or justification for the mingling of the Kingdoms great commission with the malthusianism of planned parenthood and the globalism of  organizations like the Gates Foundation funding ?

QUESTIONS 

A FEW HONEST QUESTIONS

How much  money from such sources is coming into Christian ministries?

How long have such partnerships flourished without the knowledge of the church?

How direct an impact does this funding have on the “new politics of the evangelicals “?

Why do missions organizations and ministries, church planting organizations, denominations  need our money if they are tapping  multi-billion dollar foundations coffers?

How are we so foolish to think we can wed the mission of the true church to the political structures and globalist ideas of the lost and godless organizations who see the answers to global problems in methods totally antithetical to the Word of the Living God?

The Gathering

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Great morning with @johnkeithsage at the @gatesfoundation. #gathseattle

THE GATHERING STAFF IN OCT 2018 AT THE BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION

https://web.archive.org/web/20190216134421/https://thegathering.com/event/speakers/

RUSSELL MOORE

Russell Moore is president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the moral and public policy agency of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Read more…

MOORE IN 2018 GATHERING EVENTS WHERE WEAR /GIBONEY AND THE & CAMPAIGN SPOKE

The Gathering promoting Moore’s NEW book based on feminine  theology ideals of family deconstruction .

The Gathering

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The Gathering

September 22, 2018 · 

So glad to have Praxis with us this afternoon. #gathkeybiscayne

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CONCLUSION 

Over 35 years ago  Leadership Network began flooding the ideologies of secular leadership models and Peter Drucker into the church via “invitation only “outreaches  to selected “innovative young pastors “. Now those pastors are running much of the modern day evangelicalism machine.

Co-founder of The Gospel Coalition is a Leadership Network disciple and product of it’s promotion.Keller and TGC are at the very core of the progressive politics invading the church and the are driving the global urban vision. Rick Warren, another major Leadership Network “success story”  has taken the Purpose Driven vision globally and infected the largest protestant denomination in America with it.

From the publishing companies to media outlets like Christianity Today to the seminaries  , church  planting organizations to the pulpits themselves -the Leadership Network “investment ” in evangelicalism has saturated everything in the mainstream.

NEIGHBORLY FAITH PUSHING INTERFAITH DIALOG ON CAMPUSES LIKE WHEATON AND MOODY WITH THE HELP OF SBC LEADERS FROM ERLC/ LIFEWAY AND MORE

Rev Thomas Littleton                                                                                          11-6-2019

The efforts touted as evangelistic relationship building across faith boundaries may sound like good evangelistic strategy to the undiscerning until you consider the ultimate outcomes being served are “common good” consensus and to engender tolerance. Also when those strategies involve Christian and Muslim dialog -the effort tends to be one sided . When players from the Southern Baptist entities like the ERLC and international aid organizations like World Vision are involved – you can be assured that both progressive political goals AND grant funding from open borders foundations are involved. Experience has taught many believers not to take these efforts at face value or as merely “evangelistic ” strategies . Much more is at stake and the players involved have far more to gain. So why are Christian colleges and  universities facilitating such meetings and organizations ? And why is Russell Moore’s ERLC helping provide leadership and validation to it?

NEIGHBORLY FAITH 

https://www.neighborlyfaith.org/who-we-are

“A nationwide movement, bringing Christians and Muslims together.  “

NEIGHBORLY FAITH VISION IS FOCUSED ON CHRISTIAN CAMPUSES AND MINISTRIES

“We’re partnering with Evangelical campuses to train tomorrow’s leaders to be faithful and flourish in an increasingly diverse world.”

“We’re building a student movement that takes our campuses into our communities, by knowing and serving all of our neighbors.”

“We are about real friendship with neighbors of all faiths. We do not shrink from genuinely living out our faith. Nor do we ask others to be anything other than themselves to be our friends.”

ERLC DANIEL DARLING AMONG CONTRIBUTORS AND SPEAKERS

CRU INVOLVEMENT WITH NEIGHBORLY FAITH

Neighborly Faith

· November 27, 2018 · 

NEW PODCAST!

THE FOUNDER OF THE RACIAL URBAN PROGRESSIVE OUTREACH TO EVANGELICALS WAS A SPEAKER AT TGC/ERLC MLK /50 EVENT IN APRIL 2018

Rev. Thomas Littleton                                                                                                   11/5/2019

Most mainstream concerns over the present wave of “social gospel”/ “Social Justice ” perversions in the church today resulted from the April 4th 2018 MLK/50 conference co-sponsored by The Gospel Coalition and the Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission. At MLK/50 – the racial slurs and divisive rhetoric presently in play in the church came into the light of day and  have remained a constant. It was obvious to most who were paying attention that the same old social gospel of decades ago had found its’s way into the very heart of our church leadership . Not only had the divisive narratives of endless victimhood and racial politics taken root but the ML/50 was merely  a manifestation of a long game effort. Also it was clear much bigger tentacles of some creature of the political deep had gripped the leaders of TGC/ERLC. This was weaponized racism wearing a short skirt of reformed theology in a strong wind.

FROM THE TGC SITE ON MLK/50

MLK50 Conference

“On April 3-4, 2018, in Memphis, TN The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and The Gospel Coalition hosted a special event titled “MLK50: Gospel Reflections from the Mountaintop,” to reflect on the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s tragic death.”

“The 50th anniversary of King’s tragic death marked an opportunity for Christians to reflect on the state of racial unity in the church and the culture. It created the occasion to reflect on where Christians have been and look ahead to where we must go as we pursue racial unity in the midst of tremendous tension.”

“Key speakers included Charlie Dates, Matt Chandler, Jackie Hill Perry, Eric Mason, Russell Moore, Trip Lee, John Piper, Benjamin Watson, and many others.”

ONE OF THE STARK HIDDEN REALITIES OF TGC/ ERLC’s MLK/50

Justin Giboney is a leader in the & CAMPAIGN which seeks the introduce the new politics of evangelicals and to “disrupt”  the 2020 election. They seek to combine “Biblical Values & Social Justice  to create  justice driven evangelical voters . The work already encompasses many young URBAN TGC church planters from the Southern Baptist Send Network and other planting organizations related to The Gospel Coalition.

See the first three articles in this series .

TGC EMPLOYS OBAMA “AMBASSADOR TO AMERICA’S BELIEVERS” FOR 2020

TGC’s “URBAN PASTORS UNITE” WITH “& CAMPAIGN” FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE and OBAMA FAITH AMBASSADOR .

THE RATS NEST :WHITE TGC LEADERS USING RACE,HIP HOP-TO PUSH AGENDA

&CAMPAIGN LEADERS PRESENCE IN UPCOMING TGC/ERLC RELATED POLITICAL EVENT 

JUST GOSPEL 2020 

Leaders like Russell Moore and David Platt -both Southern Baptist will be conferencing with Giboney in March in the “Just Gospel 2020 ” conference .

http://justgospelconference.org/

“The Just Gospel 2020 conference goal is to help Christians think biblically and deeply about being Christians and taking our Christian identity and perspective into our political lives. We hope to aid each other in our discipleship. We are “strangers and exiles on the earth” who “desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one” (Heb. 11:13, 16). We hope to model how Christians who differ in secondary and political matters can nevertheless do so charitably and in a way that preserves both unity and freedom of conscience. We hope to make a difference—for the Church and the country.”

MLK50 Conference

MLK/50 “GOSPEL REFLECTIONS FORM THE MOUNTAIN TOP 

MLK/50 AND GILBONEY 

The State of Racial Tension in America

1 year ago

The Gospel Coalition 

“The State of Racial Tension in America is a panel discussion with Christina Edmondson, Justin Giboney, Collin Hansen, Juan Sanchez, and Benjamin Watson that was delivered at the MLK50 Conference in Memphis, TN on April 4, 2018.”

TGC packaged the MLK/ 50 event videos for its ongoing racial “conversation “.

The State of Racial Tension in America

TGC RAN A STORY AGAIN IN NOVEMBER 2018 FROM THE MLK/50 AND GILBONEY

FEATURING A QUOTE FROM GILBONEY

Navigating Racial Tension as American Christians

Navigating Racial Tension as American Christians

NOVEMBER 16, 2018  |  Christina Edmondson • Justin Giboney • Collin Hansen • Juan Sánchez • Benjamin Watson

“Any way you look at it, black people have been enslaved in this country longer than we’ve been free. That’s one thing we have to understand. Then you have to understand the nature of slavery. The nature of slavery wasn’t just about physical bondage; it was about psychological warfare. And that psychological warfare does not go away in a generation or two.” — Justin Giboney

Date: April 4, 2018

Event: MLK50 Conference, Memphis, Tennessee

“You can listen to this episode of The Gospel Coalition podcast here or watch a video of the panel.”

Related:

• From Bloodlines to Bloodline (John Piper)
• Pitfalls White Churches Must Avoid When Pursuing Racial Unity (Christine Hoover)
• Should We Abandon the Language of Racial Reconciliation? (Duke Kwon)

Find more audio and video from the MLK50 conference on the conference media page.

 

GILBONEY AT MLK/50 ON THE PLATFORM

Christian media picked up the story-

https://www.christianpost.com/news/evangelical-trump-opponents-wept-because-global-witness-of-the-church-was-at-stake-erlc-panelist-says.html

“Justin Giboney, a Democratic political strategist and founder of the AND Campaign, explained that he believed that the 20th century Republican Party’s “Southern Strategy” was still harming race relations.

“First perfected by former President Richard Nixon, the Southern Strategy involved appealing to white Southern Democrats, often by expressing opposition to Civil Rights goals while not being overtly racist.”

“I don’t believe that white evangelical leaders, civic leaders, and also politicians, have ever truly divested themselves from the Southern Strategy,” Giboney commented.”

“I think they still believe they need the racists’ support, funding, votes to win. And so as long as they feel they need that to win, it’s going to be hard to come together.”

BUT TGC / ELRC ORGANIZERS OF MLK/50 DID NOT WARN US OF WHAT WAS TO COME JUST A SHORT 18 MONTHS LATER 

ENTER THE & CAMPAIGN 

“BIBLICAL VALUES & SOCIAL JUSTICE “

 

https://andcampaign.org/leadership

LEADERSHIP INCLUDES NOT ONLY GILBONEY BUT A HOST OF TGC URBAN CHURCH PLANTING PASTORS AND WRITERS AS WELL AS MICHAEL WEAR WHO TGC ENGAGED STRAIGHT OUT OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND INTO THE TGC.

&CAMPAIGN FOUNDERS

THE LAWYER | THE PASTOR | THE ARTIST

“Amidst the multitude of issues impacting the Church, the arts and the political landscape,  God led a Pastor, an Artist, and a Lawyer to gather a coalition of biblical Christians to engage in their context.  In doing so, the AND Campaign has united with faith leaders and influencers around the country that reflect biblical values and God’s heart for social justice.”

( FROM & CAMPAIGN SOCIAL  MEDIA )

“Urban Christians that are bringing new thinking, new engagement and new politics to the sociopolitical landscape.”

“Urban Christians are determined to reassert ourselves into America’s political & cultural arena. We refuse to settle for civic & community engagement that forces us to either neglect our compassion or surrender our convictions. From mass incarceration to the right to life, it’s time to engage in advocacy that better reflects the love & truth of the Gospel.”

“Join Christian thinkers, strategists and artists on Saturday, February 27th, as we map out a path to New Thinking, New Engagement & New Politics. The next movement begins here….The AND Campaign.”

Click to access 2020+Statement+10.22.pdf

OVERVIEW

About

“As Christians, we are called to civic and community engagement.  We have a duty to impact culture in a manner that reflects the truth (&) love of Jesus Christ.  This commission includes participation in the political arena, wherein actions or inaction can have a profound effect on all aspects of society.  Life, freedom and the general well-being of all citizens can be significantly enhanced or diminished by political dynamics.”

“Urban Christians have a unique and powerful sociopolitical perspective that is not fully represented by either of the two predominant political ideologies.  It is a Gospel-centered worldview that is committed to redemptive justice (&) values-based policy.  However, we have allowed the urban political class to abandon the latter.”

“A lack of organization and a poorly maintained platform has left us in a situation where we are exploited for votes, but command little policy influence.  Urban Christians must find innovative ways to be critical, yet constructive participants in the marketplace of ideas.  We must rebuild our sociopolitical platform and infrastructure, while demonstrating that our faith is more important than our politics.”

“We do not have the luxury of either focusing on social justice or values-based issues; both affect the foundation of our communities and are inseparably tied together.   A new generation of urban Christians must address today’s dilemmas with courage, kindness and an unshakeable faith.  We must speak truth with compassion (&) conviction.  We must echo the good news in prayer and public witness for the common good.”

WHAT IS REDEMPTIVE JUSTICE?

“Redemptive Justice is justice which has its ends in reconciliation, peace, and flourishing for all parties. The “redemption” is not the spiritual redemption which only Christ could achieve on the Cross, but it does take Christ’s sacrifice as its model of self-giving love of neighbor. This understanding of justice differs from the view which says that justice is the overthrowing of all powers or the leveling of all positions. Rather, it acknowledges that power can be used for good or evil. Just as the Roman authorities used their powers to crucify Christ, but Christ used His power to heal, teach, and lead. Redemptive Justice challenges corrupt use of power and calls all people to use the power God has given them stewardship over for good.”

WHAT ARE CLASSIC VALUES?

“Classic Values are timeless moral codes and beliefs transferred through religious teaching, family, culture and community that have proven to be irreplaceable. ”

Where We Stand

FIVE POINT PLATFORM OF & CAMPAIGN 

 

& CAMPAIGN CALL TO ACTION 

 

“Be prayerful and vigilant about the issues affecting our nation and your neighbors. When it’s time, answer the call to act together with the AND Campaign coalition. This could be a march or a vote, but it should be informed, strategic, and coordinated. Until then, consider how you can respond to challenges around you with compassion and conviction each day, starting now. When Christians speak together through the AND Campaign, it should be a megaphone for faithfulness already in action, not a surprise about what Christians believe.”

& CAMPAIGN FLESHED OUT MANIFESTO IN AUGUST OF 2018

 

https://www.facebook.com/pg/andcampaign/about/?ref=page_internal

Our Story

AND CAMPAIGN·MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2018·

“Urban Christians are determined to reassert ourselves into America’s political & cultural arena. We refuse to settle for civic & community engagement that forces us to either neglect our compassion or surrender our convictions. From mass incarceration to the right to life, it’s time to engage in advocacy that better reflects the love & truth of the Gospel.

As Christians, we are called to civic and community engagement. We have a duty to impact culture in a manner that reflects the truth (&) love of Jesus Christ. This commission includes participation in the political arena, wherein actions or inaction can have a profound effect on all aspects of society. Life, freedom and the general well-being of all citizens can be significantly enhanced or diminished by political dynamics.

Urban Christians have a unique and powerful sociopolitical perspective that is not fully represented by either of the two predominant political ideologies. It is a Gospel-centered worldview that is committed to redemptive justice (&) values-based policy. However, we have allowed the urban political class to abandon the latter.

A lack of organization and a poorly maintained platform has left us in a situation where we are exploited for votes, but command little policy influence. Urban Christians must find innovative ways to be critical, yet constructive participants in the marketplace of ideas. We must rebuild our sociopolitical platform and infrastructure, while demonstrating that our faith is more important than our politics.

We do not have the luxury of either focusing on social justice or values-based issues; both affect the foundation of our communities and are inseparably tied together. A new generation of urban Christians must address today’s dilemmas with courage, kindness and an unshakeable faith. We must speak truth with compassion (&) conviction. We must echo the good news in prayer and public witness for the common good.”

ADDITIONAL REFORMED LEADERSHIP INVOLVED 

INVOLVED IN THE &CAMPAIGN MOVEMENT IS NOT ONLY TGC/ ERLC BUT A HOST OF OTHER EVANGELICAL ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST NAMB /SEND NETWORK OF URBAN CHURCH PLANTER – JOHN PIPER’S BETHLEHEM COLLEGE AND SEMINARY AND MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE .

SAMPLE OF CURRENT CAMPUS OUTREACH OF & CAMPAIGN 

The AND Campaign Retweeted

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Nov 3

I can hardly wait to hear from

@MichaelRWear

tomorrow! Are you ready

@berrycollege

!?! #politics #faith

@BC_Chaplain

@AndCampaign

&CAMPAIGN IS CLEARLY A DEMOCRATIC PARTY LED ORGANIZATION -THERE ARE NO CONSERVATIVE VOICES IN THE EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP .

&CAMPAIGN FOCUS ? THE JUSTICE POLITICS FOR THE CHURCH  AND 2020 ELECTION

VIDEO WITH DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST GIBONEY AND OBAMA FAITH COORDINATOR MICHAEL WEAR .

( NOTE – WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW AND UNDERSTAND THAT “THE GATHERING ” EVENT AT WHICH IT IS FILMED IS THE LARGEST CONFERENCE CONNECTING DONORS AND MINISTRIES IN  EVANGELICAL CIRCLES)

“Justin Giboney & Michael Wear (Praxis Nonprofit Fellows 2018) pitch their venture, AND Campaign, during the Nonprofit Accelerator Finale segment of The Gathering in Miami, FL, September 2018”   https://thegathering.com/history/

Recent developments with The Gathering indicate it has become involved with  facilitating globalist funding like Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation into evangelical ministries .

Rev Thomas Littleton                                                                                                     11-2-2019

The Gospel Coalition is collaborating with the Obama Foundation’s “Ambassador to America’s Believers Michael Wear and the radical – SOCIAL JUSTICE racial “& CAMPAIGN”.  The first two stories revealing this bizarre collaboration are linked below. This movement gets even more bizarre as we enter the 2020 election cycle .

The leaders of the Southern Baptist ,along with entities like Desiring God ( Passion Conferences ) and The Gospel Coalition have long used “Christian Hip Hop ” to platform young minorities billed as modern day prophets to the church and attract young white and minority audiences for their  urban church planting strategies . Never mind these SBC/ TGC  leaders look  like the nerdy white boys trying to appear “with it” -“hip”- because in reality Hip Hop culture does not fit with their tightly managed “reformed theologian scholars” image. Still there is a payoff for the “nerdy urds” of SBC/ TGC/ PCA leaders.

Having corralled the urban interest and placed the soundtrack of “Christian Hip Hop ” to the TGC brand of reformed theology and  folded in a HEAVY DOSE  of social justice false gospel – these change agent leaders from two major conservative Christian denominations (the SBC and PCA and others ) are attempting to migrate the young whites , African American and Hispanic minorities right into the “Obama Foundations Ambassador to America’s Believers ” Michael Wear and the “&CAMPAIGN” movement. The  effort is so seamless it goes almost unnoticed .

TGC OLD WHITE BOY LEADERSHIP OPERATE  LIKE SLAVE TRADERS SAILING THEIR JUSTICE GOSPEL SHIP.

Like the slave traders of old, TGC white evangelical leaders have loaded the cargo hold of their neo-reformed justice gospel ship with the souls of a generation and launched for foreign shores to sell them off and sell out their FAITH . Destination ? Securing their target cargo into the Democratic plantations where minorities have long been used and pandered to for votes for decades by people who care nothing about their real  “urban  plight ” or the lives or FAITH of those its slave trade ships have trafficked .

Some of these key TGC  leaders have no doubt learned their skills from the Democratic strategist . Some of the TGC are simply nothing more than Democratic Party/ Obama representatives . While others in  TGC may simply be just practitioners of the world’s oldest profession …and will bed down with anyone for a few dollars.

ENTER THE & CAMPAIGN

TGC / & CAMPAIGN/ SOCIAL JUSTICE AND OBAMA FOUNDATION  POLITICS

( READ THESE PREVIOUS ARTICLES FOR MORE DETAILS ON TGC COLLABORATION)

TGC EMPLOYS OBAMA “AMBASSADOR TO AMERICA’S BELIEVERS” FOR 2020

TGC’s “URBAN PASTORS UNITE” WITH “& CAMPAIGN” FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE and OBAMA FAITH AMBASSADOR .

& CAMPAIGN SEEKS SUCCESS BY WEDDING “BIBLICAL VALUES ” AND “SOCIAL JUSTICE ” LED BY OBAMA AMBASSADOR /TGC LEADER MICHAEL WEAR  .

A HISTORY IN TGC’s ROLE IN “CHRISTIAN HIP HOP”

The Gospel Coalition and John Piper have been major promoters of the Christian Hip Hop scene .

SBC’s NAMB (North American Missions Board) RAPZILLA AND REACH RECORDS  have been at the cutting edge of this neo reformed + Christian Hip Hop  movement as Desiring God and TGC have featured the artist in their events , conferences , and publications for well over a decade .

SBC’S NORTH AMERICAN MISSION BOARD IS A SIGNIFICANT PARTNER

NAMB leader D A Horton is a leader in the &CAMPAIGN. Multiple other & CAMPAIGN  leaders are in the NAMB urban church planting leadership as well as TGC.

https://andcampaign.org/leadership

Horton has a long history in the Christian Hip Hop world working with Reach Records and was once the head of Atlanta based  Reach Records non profit “Reach Life Ministries” . RLM  is now shut down it’s remains converted into use with an urban school .

https://rapzilla.com/2015-03-reach-records-deactivates-reachlife-shifts-support-to-local-school/

D A Horton is a NAMB Send Network Church planter in Longbeach CA and a long time NAMB/ SEND leader . He is also an ERLC contributor for Russell Moore. ( more on Moore later )

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D.A. Horton

@da_horton

“D.A. Horton serves as Pastor of Reach Fellowship a church plant in North Long Beach, CA & as Chief Evangelist for the Urban Youth Workers Institute (UYWI). Prior to his current roles, he served as an urban church planter/pastor in Kansas City, Missouri, a National Coordinator of Urban Student Ministries at the North American Mission Board (NAMB) and the Executive Director at ReachLife Ministries, the non-profit ministry of Reach Records.”

“REBRANDING THE SBC” A PROUD HORTON AND NAMB 

D A Horton boasted in a 2016 interview about rebranding of the SBC by (TGC )leaders like Russell Moore- David Platt . Urban Church Planting and Hip Hop culture have played a significant part of the “REBRANDING ”  which Horton is so proud of in the SBC.

https://www.namb.net/send-network-blog/why-i-engage-in-the-sbc-da-horton/

“Why I engage the SBC”

“To this day I’m often asked, “D.A. why are you still involved with the SBC?” My answer is simple; I walk them through the progress I’ve witnessed regarding my five convictions.”

1. “Ministry leadership at; the ERLC, NAMB and IMB – Dr. Russell Moore, Kevin Ezell and David Platt have been game changers regarding the rebranding process of the SBC in the eyes of ethnic minorities. Not only have initiatives been created to recruit, train and send qualified minorities on the field for service, key leadership positions with influence and decision making capacities have been extended to competent and qualified emerging minority leaders.”

WHERE CHRISTIAN HIP HOP HANGS OUT -LEGACY DISCIPLE 

TGC/ CHRISTIANITY TODAY / DESIRING GOD (JOHN PIPER) AND LEGACY DISCIPLE LEGACY DISCIPLE SITE IS THE CENTRALIZED HUB FOR CHRISTIAN HIP HOP

Legacy Disciple

https://legacydisciple.org/index.php/category/content/interviews/

SPEAKERS INCLUDE TGC REGULARS

JACKIE PERRY HILL (TGC) AND HER HUSBAND PRESTON PERRY (  & CAMPAIGN LEADER)

D. A. HORTON (TGC/NORTH AMERICAN MISSION BOARD LEADERS SEND NETWORK CHURCH PLANTER & CAMPAIGN LEADER

AND SBC / TGC LEADERS FROM A WIDE CIRCLE

About

https://www.youtube.com/legacydisciple

LEGACY DISCIPLE -COLLABORATING THE HIP HOP “NEWS” WITH TGC , CHRISTIANITY TODAY  , DESIRING GOD FOR YEARS .NOW COLLABORATING WITH “& CAMPAIGN” !

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Daniels

LEGACY DISCIPLES IS PARTNERING WITH  & CAMPAIGN “AFFILIATED MINISTRIES ”

Affiliated Ministries

THE WITNESS :A BLACK CHRISTIAN COLLECTIVE is run by  TGC speaker JEMAR TISBY

The FRONT PORCH  OF TGC/9MARKS/ SBC’S  THABITI ANYABWILE

LEGACY LINEUP ALSO INCLUDES OTHER MAJOR TGC LEADERS 

FROM SBTS /ALBERT MOHLER SBC FLAGSHIP SEMINARY 

THESE INCLUDE ALBERT MOHLER/SOUTHERN BAPTIST SEMINARY PROFESSORS AND TGC LEADERS JARVIS WILLIAMS AND CURTIS WOODS.

Jarvis Williams and Legacy Disciple

Jarvis Williams

Curtis Woods and Legacy Disciple

Curtis Woods

THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST AND CRITICAL RACE THEORY /INTERSECTIONALITY REVEAL AT SBC 2019

These two SBTS professors and Legacy Disciple stable mates are both TGC affiliated and are part of the controversial promotion of critical race theory  (CRT) in the SBC .Woods was leading  the SBC 2019 “Resolutions Committee ” which turned a CA pastors condemnation of the Cultural Marxist tools into RESOLUTION 9 – AFFIRMING THE USE OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND INTERSECTIONALITY IN THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST .

http://www.bpnews.net/52308/committee-on-resolutions-named-for-2019-sbc

RESOLUTION 9 “SEVERELY ALTERED ” BY WOODS COMMITTEE

SBC 2019: Resolutions Committee ‘severely altered’ resolution against identity politics

WOODS LEGACY BOOK RELEASE AT LEGACY EVENT  CELEBRATED BY WILLIAMS

So two major SBTS/ Albert Mohler seminary leaders in TGC who promote CRT and Intersectionality are in the Legacy Disciple stable with Christian Hip Hops leading stars  and in the events PARTNERED WITH AND PROMOTING the  “& CAMPAIGN”

MORE TGC PARTNERS IN & CAMPAIGN – SHOCKING BUT TRUE

LEGACY PARTNERS IN SPONSORSHIP INCLUDE THE ,MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE , A DEVOS FAMILY INSTITUTE , SOUTHERN BAPTIST NORTH AMERICAN MISSIONS BOARD- NAMB, BETHLEHEM COLLEGE AND SEMINARY (JOHN PIPER ) AND GRIP -A MINISTRY WHOSE LEADERSHIP INCLUDES MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE LEADERS.

Legacy CHI

RAPZILLA COVERS THE NEWS FOR & CAMPAIGN AND CHRISTIAN HIP HOP

https://rapzilla.com/2016-05-sho-baraka-transcends-political-parties-with-the-and-campaign/

MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE HOST & CAMPAIGN /LEGACY EVENT ON CAMPUS

( Photo from the & campaign social media )

ON TO FRONT PORCH / &CAMPAIGN AND ERLC’s RUSSELL MOORE 

JUST GOSPEL 2020 -FRONT PORCH /THABITI /TGC LEADERS / AND & CAMPAIGN

https://thefrontporch.org/about/

RECALL THAT FRONT PORCH IS A PARTNER WITH LEGACY DISCIPLES AND & CAMPAIGN

( FROM JUST FRONT PORCH WEBSITE )

https://thefrontporch.org/about/meet-the-brothers-on-the-front-porch/

(The brothers on The Front Porch (left to right): Thabiti Anyabwile, Louis Love, and Tony Carter.)

JUST GOSPEL 2020 CONFERENCE

http://justgospelconference.org/

(FROM JUST GOSPEL 2020 CONFERENCE SITE )

NOTE THE THIRD WAY POLITICS AND ANTI TRUMP FOCUS

About

“No one saw the 2016 presidential election coming. No one predicted the effect the election would have on the country—and the Church. To some extent, our tribalism has been exposed and perhaps deepened. Unity has become more fragile.

In all likelihood, the Church will face the same stark choices and the same potential for misunderstanding, disunity and tribal politics. This time, however, we have an opportunity to approach politics and the election differently… like Christians… like the pilgrims and aliens we are in the world.

The goal of Just Gospel 2020 is NOT to engage in partisan debate or endorse any party’s platform. Nor is our goal to bind the consciences of attendees to a particular policy prescription the Bible does not require. We will not recommend or even comment on any candidate.

The Just Gospel 2020 conference goal is to help Christians think biblically and deeply about being Christians and taking our Christian identity and perspective into our political lives. We hope to aid each other in our discipleship. We are “strangers and exiles on the earth” who “desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one” (Heb. 11:13, 16). We hope to model how Christians who differ in secondary and political matters can nevertheless do so charitably and in a way that preserves both unity and freedom of conscience. We hope to make a difference—for the Church and the country.

We need and want healing conversations that serve the Church We need pilgrim politics that bear witness to Christ and Kingdom to which we are headed. Join us!”

WHERE
Del Ray Baptist Church

DEL RAY BAPTIST IS THE HOST CHURCH ITS PASTOR GARRETT KELL IS A SPEAKER AND IS AN ERLC FELLOW- A TGC COUNCIL MEMBER – A 9MARKS CHURCH PLANTER .KELLS CHURCH ALSO WAS AMONG THE GROUP OF 9MARKS CHURHCES WHO IMPLEMENTED THE SAM ALLBERRY/LIVING OUT/ TIM KELLER LGBTQ INCLUSION CHURHC AUDIT STATESIDE IN NOV.2018 .

JUST GOSPEL 2020 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS “&CAMPAIGN” FOUNDER &RUSSELL MOORE OF TGC/ERLC 

Justin Giboney

http://justgospelconference.org/speaker/justin-giboney-2/

Get Tickets! 

JUSTIN GIBONEY

“Justin Giboney is an attorney and political strategist in Atlanta, GA. He is also the Co-Founder and President of the AND Campaign, which is a coalition of urban Christians who are determined to address the sociopolitical arena with the compassion and conviction of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Mr. Giboney has managed successful campaigns for elected officials in the state and referendums relating to the city’s transportation and water infrastructure.”

“In 2012 and 2016, Georgia’s 5th congressional district elected him as a delegate for the Democratic National Convention and he served as the co-chair of Obama for America’s Gen44-Atlanta initiative. A former Vanderbilt University football player and law student, Justin served on the Urban League of Greater Atlanta Board of Directors. He’s written op-eds for publications such as Christianity Today and The Hill.”

 

 

Russell Moore

http://justgospelconference.org/speaker/russell-moore/

Get Tickets! 

RUSSELL MOORE

“Russell Moore is president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the moral and public policy agency of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.”

 

OTHER JUST GOSPEL 2020 SPEAKERS FROM TGC INCLUDE 

DAVID PLATT- TGC/ERLC AND SOUTHERN BAPTIST FORMER LEADER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS BOARD OF THE SBC.

JONATHAN LEEMAN OF 9 MARKS – ERLC- TGC

THABITI ANYABWILE (OF COURSE ) OF 9 MARKS – TGC- FRONT PORCH

WHY IS THIS HAPPENING IN CONSERVATIVE EVANGELICAL CIRCLES LIKE TGC?

Again from the Just Gospel 2020 website we get a clear view of why

About

“No one saw the 2016 presidential election coming. No one predicted the effect the election would have on the country—and the Church. To some extent, our tribalism has been exposed and perhaps deepened. Unity has become more fragile.”

BUT THE DO SEE THE 2020 ELECTION AND UNTHINKABLE RE-ELECTION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP WHO TGC /ERLC AND THEIR LEADERSHIP HAVE FOUGHT TOOTH AND NAIL.

“In all likelihood, the Church will face the same stark choices and the same potential for misunderstanding, disunity and tribal politics. This time, however, we have an opportunity to approach politics and the election differently… like Christians… like the pilgrims and aliens we are in the world.”

MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT- TGC WOULD HAVE ENDORSED HILLARY CLINTON – SOME IN FACT DID  .

“The goal of Just Gospel 2020 is NOT to engage in partisan debate or endorse any party’s platform. Nor is our goal to bind the consciences of attendees to a particular policy prescription the Bible does not require. We will not recommend or even comment on any candidate.”

CONCLUSION 

THE ACTUAL GOAL OF THIS ENTIRE HIP HOP /TGC URBAN MOVEMENT POLITICAL .IT IS DESIGNED TO MOVE THE SBC /PCA AND CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS TO THE LEFT – WELL PAST CENTER.

THE COLLABORATION WITH “&CAMPAIGN ” SHOWS NOT A MIDDLE OF THE ROAD POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT BUT FULL ON RUSH INTO THE OBAMA POLITICS OF THE PROGRESSIVE FAR LEFT VIA LEADERSHIP FROM MICHAEL WEAR IN THE TGC AND & CAMPAIGN .

How long will Christians accept any of the TGC’s work or people at face value ? How long will they continue to SUCCESSFULLY USE minorities and minority culture and even “Christian Hip Hop ” to appeal to and corral young hearts and minds to enable their own vision?

If you are in the WOKE- then you  need to awaken . You are being used by  plantation owners of a slightly  different sort -yet all to the same self serving ends for those who wish to traffic you -your life- your dreams and your faith .Eternity is hanging in the balances while tgc leaders court nickels and noses in a political sell out.

Proverbs 23:

6 Do not eat the bread of a^[b] miser,
Nor desire his delicacies;
⁷ For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
“Eat and drink!” he says to you,
But his heart is not with you.
⁸ The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up,
And waste your pleasant words.