THOUGH KNOWN FOR HIS “HUMBLE” ” APPROACH, TIM KELLER PLANNED HIS OWN MEMORIAL SERVICE IN GRAND STYLE SECURING HIS PLACE IN EVANGELICAL HISTORY.

Rev Thomas Littleton

8/17/2023

(NOTE :This article is not meant to be mean spirited nor to “speak ill of the dead”. Yet is is unavoidable to address the long term damage and impact Tim Keller’s ministry has had and his legacy will continue to have on the church in this generation. The glaring contradictions of his self planned memorial service help in understadning his own complex legacy and the gulf which exist between his reputation and his actual impact on /in modern Christian circles globally.

HIGH PRAISE FROM HIS GOSPEL COALITION (TGC) FELLOWS

Tim Keller’s influence on the evangelical church and especially on the American Reformed movement, including his own Presbyterian Church in America,has been both far reaching and destructive. Keller’s political movement TGC has helped reek havoc in American seminaries, churches and ministries since its founding in 2006. Yet no one has ever been able to fully unravel the funding or influences behind it. Keller came out of obscurity as a Virginia pastor and into his position as pastor of a planned and “hopeful PCA flagship church plant in NewYork City”. He is said to have been the 3rd choice for the job. Who pulled the strings within these PCA has never been revealed.

In 2008 Christianity Today and Peter Drucker evangelical machine “Leadership Network” operative Ed Stetzer began helping Tim Keller’s name become a household word by hard selling his new book. Keller, Stetzer and fringe emergetns like Brian McLaren began a movement call “Mission Shift” inorder to flood the EMERGENT MOVEMENT intomission organizations and visions.

By 2010 the Lausanne Movements choice of Keller as a keynote in Lausanne South Africa and his later choice to speak at Lausanne’s North American memorial to John Stott had Keller touted as one of the churches leading “intellectuals” and dubbed “the new John Stott”. Since that time Keller’s influence has continued to explode. Keller’s TGC, his Redeemer Church NYC , his MANY books and publishing arm “Gospel in Life” his global church planting arm “Redeemer City to City”. His “New York City Movement Day”, his SOCIALIST ECONOMICS model “Center for Faith and Work” and his Frankfurt School inspired narrative of “human flourishing” and “theology of Cities” have seen to that non stop growth. Most often his talking points have come from political think tanks like the Institute for Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (IASC ) and his strong GLOBALIST and left leaning political affiliations. These have helped secure Keller’s place as a leading “thinker” of modern day evangelicalism.

THE SOURCE OF KELLER’S TALKING POINTS

Keller was most skilled at appearing contemplative and thoughtful while presenting the narrative such think tanks as FRANKFURT SCHOOL inspired IASC had honed.

(NOTE :MANY of Kellers key concepts and terms came from IASC which admitted to its Frankfurt School inspiration on its very own about page.

IASC -“Our institutional inspiration comes from the close-knit intellectual fellowships of the past (such as the Frankfurt School and the Vienna Circle); our philosophical inspiration comes from a thoughtful re-appropriation of the theologies and classical philosophies which characteristically champion the dignity of the person, the pursuit of the just life, and the flourishing of the human community.”

(NOTE also that his revealing statement was later removed AFTER it was brought to light in an expose on Tim Keller.)

TGC PROVIDED “HEADLINE TRIBUTES” FROM HIS TGC FELLOW INFLUENCERS.

TRIBUTES TO TIM KELLER

I Met My Hero, Tim Keller
COLLIN HANSEN

‘I’ll Miss Our Conversations’: Collin Hansen Remembers Tim Keller
COLLIN HANSEN • MELISSA KRUGER

Don Carson Pays Tribute to Tim Keller
DON CARSON

50 Quotes from Tim Keller (1950–2023)
MATT SMETHURST

Ray Ortlund: ‘I Thank God for Tim Keller’
RAY ORTLUND

KELLER’S MEMORIAL SERVICE DETAILS

TGC headline coverage :

All About Jesus: Tim Keller’s Memorial Service

AUGUST 15, 2023  |  SARAH EEKHOFF ZYLSTRA

(THE FUNERAL PROGRAM WAS LINKED IN SEVERAL ARTICLES)

https://religionunplugged.com/news/2023/8/16/tim-keller-memorial-service-the-reason-for-joy

“Keller’s memorial was referred to as a “worship service to God for Tim Keller’s life and ministry.”

“The service, held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and also streamed live on Keller’s website, was never one of pure grief. Rather, it was one of hope and joy. The service was rooted in thanksgiving, selflessness, joyful confidence and, yes, celebration.”

“Exactly the way Keller himself intended it.”

“Keller noted that his father had meticulously planned out his own memorial service. He had handpicked each hymn, and the sequence of the hymns was likewise intentional. The late Keller had also provided a short, written commentary for each hymn.”

“In all, the service consisted of five hymns, five Scripture readings and even readings from C.S. Lewis’ “Weight of Glory” and “Mere Christianity.” It also included words from Kathy Keller and her sons, along with a homily delivered by the Rev. Sam Allberry.”

(MORE ON SAM ALLBERRY IN A MOMENT)

“I chose each hymn, and there’s an order to them,” Timothy Keller wrote as part of the program. “So the first one, ‘Immortal invisible God Only Wise,’ is a tremendous depiction of who God is and his attributes. It’s really all about God. Who is he? And what’s really interesting is some of the lines in here summarizing the most important Christian ideas. I’ve never seen it summarized better.”

“When Keller planned his memorial service, it also appeared that he wanted to include as little of himself as possible in the proceedings. This shows how the service reflected the person of Timothy Keller.”

“Chris Whiftord and her husband, Tom, were part of Redeemer’s second-ever member class. She said Keller “didn’t draw attention himself.”

SEVERAL DISTURBING CONTRADICTIONS

A Reformed Calvinist Protestant known for his “humility” and desire to “avoid drawing attention to himself” (as repeatedly pointed out in his memorial service which HE PLANNED) leaves behind some very disturbing contradictions to such convictions and statements both by him and about him. Keller, by planning his service be held in New York Cities GRAND St Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral and calling his faithful to a worship service in his honor surrounded by the unbiblical religious trappings and teachings which his Reformed Protestant movement “protested against” from its founding over 500 years ago. This choice of venue is INDEED a very strange contradiction.

Also with a repeated desire NOT TO DRAW UNDUE ATTENTION TO HIMSELF-Keller chose to spare nothing when picking the grandest available venue and deciding every detail himself right down to providing commentary before each hymn which he also chose himself. It is not uncommmon with Christians facing extended terminal illnesses to specify desires for their memorial services but these contradictions in Keller’s role and choices remains troubling given his reputation and Reformed Protestant Christian affiliation.

On August 15, 2023, a memorial service for Tim Keller was held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, NY. (Photo: Chris Davis / Twitter)

TIM KELLER AND TGC LONG HISTORY WITH THE GAY IDENTIFIED ACTIVIST CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIEST SAM ALLBERRY

Tim Keller chose Sam Allberry to participate in his memorial service as did the dying apologist Ravi Zacharias . Since Sam Allberry’s first book “Is God Anti- Gay ?” was publisjed in 2013 ,Tim Keller’s TGC has featured the “Same Sex Attracted” (SSA) but “Celibate” Priest front and center. Allberry is an editor with TGC and a regular in its conference , publications and events. In 2010 both TGC and Lausanne has subscribed to the SSA narrative based on the global mental health /American Psychological Assocaiton’s new gold standard of Sexual Orientation ( being fixed ) Gender Identitiy (being Fluid) /SOGI as both entites adopted extensive WHITEPAPERS on SOGI as their own gold standards on human sexuality and gender. This put these two major influential organizations in alignment with the American Psychological Assocaition (APA) and the international LGBTQ Human Rights community in advancing social change on LGBTQ equality and inclusion especially inside the churches.

Sam Allberry was a central figure from the same efforts inside the Church of England as their STATE CHURCH launched on a two year “conversation” in the church to promote compliance with the English governments newly legalized gay marriage decision.

Keller and TGC CHOSE ALLBERRY FROM this circle of activism inside the Church of England to be engaged as a leading voice in their influential TGC circles. Such voices were included and heard to bring about social change…not biblical faithfulness nor holding to the power of the Gospel to convert and set free sinners from thier sin. SSA but celibate is an updated version of the “non-practicing homosexuals” activist narrative of thirty five years ago in the mainline churches of the time who soon fully AFFIRMED practicing homosexuals into membership and ordination in their churches. ALL of those movements entered into and continue in steep decline .

THE KELLERS AND SAM ALLBERRY 2018

“The very qualities we have loved in Tim are all reflections of what can be found so clearly in Christ,” Allberry said. “What Tim was, imperfectly, Christ has always been, fully and completely. Or to borrow from one of Tim’s more memorable phrases, ‘Jesus is the true and better Tim Keller.’ And so the best way to appreciate and understand Tim is to think about Christ.”

REVOICE LGBTQ INCLUSION AND LGBTQ THRIVING IN CONSERVATIVE CHURCHES REMAINS THE SINGLE MOST DESTRUCTIVE EVENT IN KELLERS OWN PCA DENOMINATION AFTER YEARS OF “DEBATE” OVER THE SSA BUT CELIBATE MOVMENT.

Revoice is deeply intrenched in both Albert Mohler’s Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) and the PCA Covenant Theological Semianry (CTS) in St Louis. Yet Tim and Kathy Keller /TGC have maintained a very close- ongoing association with many leaders from Revoice AND with Sam Allberry.

THIS KELLER /ALLBERRY ASSOCIATION REMAINED EVEN IN KELLER’S MEMORIAL SERIVCE.

WHY?

REMINDER :

Just as the damaging and divisive Revoice movment was being exposed in the American seminaries in Spring of 2018, Allberry announced his ministry “Living Out” plans to host Tim and Kathy Keller in their London Conference on LGBTQ issues & “OUR IDENTITY IN CHRIST”

LIVING OUT PROMOTING ITS CONFERENCE WITH THE KELLERS & REVOICE AS “HIGLY RECOMMENDED FOR OUR US FOLLOWERS.

Living Out@LivingOutOrg

Identity in Christ: not long now until our conference with @timkellernyc! Do spread the word/sign up! http://www.livingout.org/identity-in-christ …

Living Out‏ @LivingOutOrg May 4

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Living Out Retweeted Living Out

And for our US followers, there is of course the http://revoice.us  event coming up in July which we highly recommend!

At this conference Allberry and Living Out introduced their LGBTQ Inclusion Church Audit which Kathy Keller labeled as “BRILLIANT” and affirmed they were taking it bact to Redeemer Church. You cna see the Living Out announcement below and the true /false questions of the Lvining Out /Allberry “Inclusion Audit” below that

““At our Identity in Christ conference with Tim & Kathy Keller in June 2018 we launched our Living Out Church Audit – a tool to help church leadership teams answer this key question: how biblically inclusive is your church? Unsurprisingly our focus is on those who might identify as LGBTQ+/ same-sex attracted: Jesus included all in a counter-cultural way and we hope this audit will help our churches follow his lead.”

NOTE: IT WAS IN TGC PUBLICATIONS THAT REVOICE FOUNDER NATE COLLINS FIRST INTRODUCED SAM ALLBERRY VIA HIS BOOK REVIEW AND PROMOTION TO TGC AUDIENCE.

Is God Anti-Gay?

“In this brief but important book, Is God Anti-Gay? And Other Questions about Homosexuality, the Bible, and Same-Sex Attraction, Sam Allberry combines pastoral wisdom, authentic autobiography, and sound exegesis to provide Christians with a helpful introduction to the topic of homosexuality.”…

JULY 15, 2013  |  NATE COLLINS

IT GETS WORSE- FAR WORSE .

LIVING OUT CHURCH AUDIT

How biblically inclusive is your Church?

1-Your church family meetings include people who could be labelled LGBTQI+/ are same-sex attracted. True / False / Not Sure

2-Derogatory language or stereo-typing attitudes towards sexual minority groups                  would not be tolerated either up-front or in conversation between church family                members. True / False / Not Sure 

3-All in your church know that we all experience sexual brokenness and all are being encouraged to confess their own sexual sins. True / False / Not Sure

4-Same-sex sexual relationships are never mentioned in isolation from other sinful patterns of behavior, or from the forgiveness offered to all through faith in Christ crucified. True / False / Not Sure

5-All in your church are hearing the same call to radical self-sacrifice of themselves in response to God’s giving of himself in Jesus. True / False / Not Sure

6-All in your church are encouraged to develop an identity founded first and foremost on their union with Christ. True / False / Not Sure 

7-A godly Christian’s sexual orientation would never prevent them from exercising their spiritual gifts or serving in leadership in your church. True / False / Not Sure

8-God’s gifts of either singleness or marriage are equally promoted, valued and practically supported in your church family’s life together. True / False / Not Sure

9- Church family members instinctively share meals, homes, holidays, festivals, money, children with others from different backgrounds and life situations to them. True / False / Not Sure 

10-Church family members instinctively share meals, homes, holidays, festivals, money, children with others from different backgrounds and life situations to them. True / False / Not Sure 

NOTE- AN ALTERED VERSION OF THE LIVING OUT INCLUSION AUDIT FOR CHURCHES REMAINS ON THE LIVING OUT SITE DESPITE MASSIVE CONTRIVERSY SURROUND IT AND THE KELLER’S ENDORSMENT OF IT .

Also note that TGC leader Mark Dever /9MARKS was the first to bring the Living Out LGBTQ Inclusion Church Audit stateside into his network of affiliated churches.

OF ALL THE PREACHERS IN THE TGC STABLE WHY DID KELLER CHOOSE SAM ALLBERRY TO SPEAK AT THIS MEMORIAL SERVICE ALONG SIDE HIS FAMILY?

ANSWER? –

LAUSANNE 2010 HAD SOUGHT TO ADDRESS THESE STATED ISSUE OF THE DAY : KELLER /TGC AND THE SAM ALLBERRY AFFLIATIONS CERTAINLY SOUGHT TO ANSWER AND RESOLVE THE “ISSUES ” LAUSANNE HIGHLIGHTED IN 2010.

”  The Cape Town Congress was particularly concerned about the crises of our time. Prominent themes were, for example, the increasing impoverishment of many segments of the population in underdeveloped countries and the accumulation of wealth and assets of affluence among a relatively small upper class, not only in the Southern Hemisphere but also in the West. Other themes of the Congress that affect the spread of Christianity worldwide included the reconciliation of human races, the achievement of social justice, the mitigation of global warming, the increase of women in leadership positions, the right approach to homosexuality, the oral tradition of the Bible, and the conduct of spiritual warfare.”

CONCLUSION

Something about the social change efforts of Living Out and Revoice spawned in 2010 out of Lausanne and TGC remain at the epicenter of Tim Keller’s ministry and his own carefully crafted legacy .The church must ask itself “WHY”. .. and what will be lasting impact of Keller’s influence on the biblically conservative church given his ties to IASC/Lausanne and activist like the Revoice leaders and Sam Allberry of Living Out ?

MATTHEW 7:

You Will Know Them by Their Fruits

¹⁵ “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. ¹⁶ You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. ¹⁹ Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ²⁰ Therefore by their fruits you will know them.”

THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION, IN ITS RUSH TO PROVE HOW Diversity, Equity & Inclusion ( DE&I) COMPLIANT AND PROGRESSIVE IT IS, HAS BLOWN OFF THE LAST REMAINING DIGITS OF ITS OWN INTEGRITY AS THE INTERIM CEO WHO WAS BEING CONSIDERED A CANDIDATE FOR THE POSITION FULL TIME IS FORCED TO ADMIT HIS ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS ARE FORGED.

Rev Thomas Littleton

8/17/2023

Forget that the Southern Baptist Convention was led by men who fought and won a battle against liberalism FOR the Word of God back in the late 1970s. Never mind that Baptist were once the largest protestant denomination in America. All that is NOW history. It is past. It is OVER. Planting fake and failed churches replaced evangelism decades ago and the once 16 million member movement is now below 4 million in weekly attenders and losing members at the rate of 500,000 plus last year alone. Now its own deep rooted corruption and pride among its top leadership have caught up with and is devouring it.

Like the foolish woman of Proverbs 14, SBC leadership have been tearing down their own house by indoctrinating the future of their own pulpits with CRT/ Revoice LGBTQ/ Feminine ,Queer and Gender Theory/ and the tools of Cultural Marxim. To be blunt they have filled their pulpits with social change agents spouting lifeless narratives leaving the pews a “scorched earth” of dry bones. Heard a Baptist preacher try to preach lately? The very thought of enduring another lecture from one of these seminary disciples is too painful to consider for many.

Besides the obvious ruin this has brought on a generation of young men and women – some actually called of God-the SBC leadership have also sought to indoctrinate our children in our own churches and homes. These BRAZEN fatted cows hidden behind Neo-Calvinist theology have also sought to further their government and private Foundation funding ties by unhinging convictional Christians from their Faith ,Family and Pro Life political stands and into the mushy middle “leaning in ” toward left wing compromise.

In the last decade plus the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention have proven again and again that many are lost. There is little reason to take them seriously on any matter of integrity given the invasion of our institutions , the sex scandals, OR the stupidity of brining in Guidepost Solutions to promote DE&I compliance. The last decade plus has seen and endless stream of disgraced liars, cheats, and generally unregenerate leaders who have flooded the movement with false teachings , social justice, CRT, Revoice and replaced the Gospel with Faith Based Partnerships and Global Goals outcomes. There is dirty money everywhere and lots of it. There are few of the leaders of major entities or big name preachers like Rick Warren / Ed Stetzer/ Russell Moore/ Albert Mohler/ Kevin Ezell/ Bryant Wright ( the list goes on and on) who still hold a shred of integrity. This public shame-fest can only be interpreted as the judgement of God on a movement which has long ago exchanged His glory for that which does not profit … i.e. their own empty profits from church growth- seeker friendly- FBP/UN partnerships/ Muslim Resettlement/ Revoice LGBTQ welcoming/ Critical Theories/ internal Cancel Culture /corrupt institutional heads & culturally relevant chasing after the wind. Also lets not forget many have added to all THIS -pure unrepentant arrogance since MANY have been repeatedly warned and refused to repent.

US News and World Report- “Tennessee pastor Willie McLaurin, who leads the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, resigned Thursday from his position as interim president and chief executive after it came to light that he presented false information about his educational qualifications on his resume.” (On his resume, McLaurin listed earned degrees from North Carolina Central University, Duke University Divinity School and Hood Theological Seminary. Those entries proved to be false.)

JUST THE FIRST DAY OF HEADLINES- READ THEM AND WEEP IF YOU THINK THE SBC IS ANY LONGER THE CHURCH :

Southern Baptist leader resigns from top administrative …

AP Newshttps:

RELIGION

Southern Baptist leader resigns from top administrative post for lying on his resume about schooling

6 hours ago — Willie McLaurin, a Tennessee pastor who served as chief executive of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, has resigned.

Southern Baptist Convention Leader Resigns Over False …

The New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com › 2023/08/17 › southern-baptis…

1 hour ago — Willie McLaurin, the interim head of a powerful committee, said he listed schools he did not attend, according to the denomination.”

Southern Baptist EC President Resigns Over Falsified …

Christianity Todayhttps://www.christianitytoday.com › news › august › s…

5 hours ago — Willie McLaurin, former Executive Committee VP, steps in four months after Ronnie Floyd’s resignation. Adelle M. Banks – Religion News Service.

Willie McLaurin, interim president of top SBC committee, resigns over false credentials

Liam Adams

Nashville Tennessean

STRAIGHT FROM BAPTIST PRESS:

“McLaurin resigns as interim EC president and CEO, removed from search consideration.”

AUGUST 17 2023

NASHVILLE (BP) — “Willie McLaurin has stepped down as interim president and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee and is no longer considered to be a candidate for that position by the presidential search team.

McLaurin confessed to EC Chairman Phillip Robertson and EC Presidential Search Committee Chairman Neal Hughes Aug. 17 that his education credentials were forgeries.

In an email statement to EC members shared with Baptist Press, Robertson said, “While considering Willie as a candidate, your Presidential Search Team discovered disqualifying information during their process of vetting and due diligence.”

On his resume, McLaurin listed earned degrees from North Carolina Central University, Duke University Divinity School and Hood Theological Seminary. Those entries proved to be false.

Hughes said three different search committee members did individual investigations into the validity of the credibility of McLaurin’s degrees.”

“They spent four weeks investigating and applying for answers,” Hughes said in a letter to EC members.

…“EACH CONFIRMED THAT MCLAURIN HAD NEVER GRADUATED FROM THE INSTITUTION…..”

In the end, each institution confirmed McLaurin had never graduated from the institution.

“These matters were turned over to our EC officers, who also act as the personnel team for the EC,” Hughes said.

After admitting the truth, McLaurin tendered his resignation.

“To the Southern Baptists who have placed their confidence in me and have encouraged me to pursue the role of President & CEO of the SBC Executive Committee, including pastors, state partners, entity servants, colleagues, and SBC African American friends, I offer my deepest apologies,” McLaurin said in a resignation letter submitted to EC officers and shared with Baptist Press. “Please forgive me for the harm or hurt that this has caused.”

RELIGION NEWS SERVICE ARTICLE QUOTE

“The statement quoted from McLaurin’s resignation letter, saying he admitted falsifying his resume.”

““In a recent resume that I submitted, it included schools that I did not attend or complete the course of study,”

NOTE- This statement would indicate that McLaurin BOTH did not attend the institutions AND did not complete the course of study/degrees at all.

” McLaurin reportedly said in resigning. ” again – “According to Baptist Press, an official SBC publication, McLaurin claimed that he had degrees from North Carolina Central University, Duke University Divinity School and Hood Theological Seminary on his resume. When presidential search committee members attempted to confirm those degrees, they learned he did not hold those degrees.”

MORE HISTORY OF WILLIE McLAURIN IN LEADERSHIP ROLES

McLAURIN LEADS A LEADERSHIP TRAINING AND COACHING CONSULTING FIRM

“Leadership is about Getting the Right People to do the Right Things, at the right time.”

— Willie McLaurin

About Willie McLaurin

“We partner with existing and emerging leaders and assist them in unlocking potential so they can make progress toward their goals.”

“Willie McLaurin has been involved in developing leaders existing and emerging leaders for 25 years. His heart for investing in leaders begins with leading at home. He and Antonia have been married for 25 years and they have two amazing daughters. He is gifted in developing in strengthening strong relations toward optimal performance.”

“Willie is President and Chief Executive Officer of Willie McLaurin Coaching and Consulting. He currently serves as the Vice President for Great Commission Relations and Mobilization of The Southern Baptist Convention. Willie partners organizations to:

• Discover Opportunities
• Develop Strategies
• Deploy for Effectiveness”

“His unique combination of military and ministry experience provide him fresh insight to assist your organization achieve exceptional results.”

AN INTERVIEW ON LEADERSHIP WITH THE KENTUCKY BAPTIST

Leadership Lessons with Willie McLaurin

Kentucky Baptist Convention Streamed live on Apr 19, 2023 “As the SBC annual meeting approaches, interim executive committee president Willie McLaurin provides an update on the convention and what preparations for the meeting are underway.”

AN OFFICER IN ARMY INTELLIGENCE

In this interview Willie McLaurin is asked to speak about his military career as “an officer in the Army Inteligence Corp”. No one in the SBC seems to be asking now but his confession to falsifying his academic credentials likely have some bearing on his position as an Officer in Army Intelligence.

McLaurin “I was forunate in College to be a part of the ROTC, the Reserve Officers Training Corps so I came out of college ..I finished in three years and had an opertunity to go and serve as an officer. And I went through the US Army Military Intelligence School and actually was trained in Morse Code. So I was attached to units that were deployed …and was stationed at Fort Huachuca in Arizona. It is called the “Combined Command “where all the services come and get trained and so I had the privilege first of all kinda being be the commander in a unit that trained all the branches on Morse Code …” From there McLaurin says he had some other “smaller deployments across the country” before ending up his time in the Army at Fort Campbell KY working at “the Home of 101st Airborne Division attached to a small group that gave support the 5th Special Forces Group which is an elite group there”.

McLAURIN’S CLAIMS HERE ABOUT HIS COLLEGE AND MILITARY CAREER ALSO RAISE SEVERAL DISTURBING AND LINGERING QUESTIONS.

MORE FROM THE CONFESSIONAL – “THANKFUL FOR THE TRUST SOUTHERN BAPTIST PLACED IN ME…” WHAT ?

“In a statement to Baptist Press, McLaurin said, “I am thankful for the trust that Southern Baptists placed in me to serve as Interim President & CEO. Now, I am trusting Southern Baptists to pray for me and my family as we navigate this part of the journey.”

MORE FROM THE BAPTIST PRESS ARTICLE -AGAIN THE SBC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE HAS OVERSIGHT OF BAPTIST PRESS AND IS OBVIOUSLY INTERESTED IN DAMAGE CONTROL FROM THE FALLOUT DUE TO ITS OWN PATHETIC LEADERSHIP AND CHOICES.

“McLaurin was named to the interim role on Feb. 1, 2022, stepping into the position that had been vacated three months earlier by Ronnie Floyd. Previously, McLaurin had served as vice president for Great Commission relations and mobilization at the EC.”

“Prior to his role at the EC, McLaurin was on the staff of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board for 15 years. He also served as executive pastor at Greater Missionary Baptist Church in Clarksville, Tenn., and senior pastor at Greater Hope Baptist Church in Union City, Tenn.”

“McLaurin was on the SBC Committee on Resolutions in 2018 and president of the Black Southern Baptist Denominational Servants Network in 2011-2012. He also was on the Executive Board of the Tennessee Baptist Convention from 2003-2005 and was the inaugural president of the African American Fellowship of the Tennessee Baptist Convention.”

The EC is scheduled to meet in person in Nashville on Sept. 18-19.

Hughes said the search team will resume their search for the next candidate to lead the EC.

Robertson called on Southern Baptists to join him and Hughes in prayer.

“The need for God’s wisdom and direction is paramount at each and every point in the process of searching and selecting the next president and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee,” Robertson said.”

CURRENT SBC PRESIDENT BART BARBER IS QUICK TO ABSOLVE THE GUILT OF McLaurin WHILE IGNORING THE COLLECTIVE FAULT OF THE SBC.

Bart Barber

15h

Willie McLaurin: “Please forgive me for the harm or hurt that this has caused.” Biblical Christianity offers you one and only one response to that plea, fellow Southern Baptists. Yes, Willie, I forgive youI

WILLIE WAS ALSO CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND HELD MULTIPLE OTHER LONG TERM POSITIONS IN THE SBC.

NOTE -AS INTERIM PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE McLAURIN HELD TOP POSITIONS OVER MOST OF THE FINACIAL OPERATIONS OF THE SBC INCLUDING THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST FOUNDATION.

NOTE THIS IN THE DISCRIPTION OF THE SB FOUNDATION RESPONSIBILITIES FROM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE-

“the Southern Baptist Foundation manages proceeds from wills, bequests and other investments”

QUESTION- So is anyone interested in leaving large SUMS of MONEY to the Southern Baptist Founadtion with this kind of unvetted oversight?

This appears to be a horrific insight into how the SBC leadership is currebtly being led.

(Bio from the Southern Baptist Foundation website)

Dr. Willie McLaurin

Chairman Of Southern Baptist Foundation –

• Interim President & CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee
• Vice President for Great Commission Relations and Mobilization of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee
• Former Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board (2005-2020)
• Inaugural President of the African American Fellowship of the Tennessee Baptist Convention
• Former Senior Pastor of Greater Hope Baptist Church (Union City, TN)
• Former Executive Pastor of Greater Missionary Baptist Church (Clarksville, TN)

THE SBC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FUNCTIONS WITH THE SBC FINACIALS OF MORE FULLY EXPLAINED:

The Executive Committee oversees finances and budgets of sBC entities and  is also assigned program responsibilities:

1. for Cooperative Program promotion,
2. managing the Southern Baptist Foundation, which manages proceeds from wills, bequests and other investments,
3. operating Baptist Press, the SBC news service, and
4. providing a convention relations office, which articulates Southern Baptist positions to constituents and to the public through the media as well as producing the SBC LIFE Journal

WILLIE MCLAURIN OWN CONFESSION-

FROM RNS – “The statement quoted from McLaurin’s resignation letter, saying he admitted falsifying his resume.”

““In a recent resume that I submitted, it included schools that I did not attend or complete the course of study,” McLaurin reportedly said in resigning. ” again – “According to Baptist Press, an official SBC publication, McLaurin claimed that he had degrees from North Carolina Central University, Duke University Divinity School and Hood Theological Seminary on his resume. When presidential search committee members attempted to confirm those degrees, they learned he did not hold those degrees.”

CONCLUSION

There was a time when degrees and honors did not matter to Southern Baptists and most of their powerful men in the pulpit had little in the way of academic qualifications but they could PREACH the WORD of GOD. Now degrees and credentials are worshipped and thousands of unemployed and unemployable “lecturers ” roll out of SBC institutions annually only to languish (in odd jobs ) or remain in the pulpits of dying churches to torture the poor inhabitors of the pews with endless polishing of Neo- Calvinist doctrine , critical theories, progressive third way politics and false social gospels. In the end it was THE top Executive- the CEO of the SBC Executive Committee wearing fake and false credentials -those treasures so worshipped and honored among modern day theological elitists … which served to bring the SBC into the dust of RUIN and public SHAME. This is despite his perfect fit as PROOF OF a DE&I compliant SBC movement because Willie McLaurin is African American and the SBC is accused of “a long history of racism”. All that aside -fake credentials scandals have nothing to do with race. They are equal opportunity disqualifiers. So how many other Baptist leaders have fake or false ..or be honest and ask..other wise useless credentials?

It has been a long road and the SBC has had a long run -for better and/ or worse – as a significant movement. BUT it is over and done. The SBC leadership are deaf dumb blind… stupid and stiff-necked unable to find repentance before its full shame came on public display. NOW it can no longer be said that THE Southern Baptist is a “Great Commission” movement. It is just one more dead and dying denomination (well sort of) whose glory days are past and God’s glory has departed.

The New York Times headline reads:

“Southern Baptist Convention Leader Resigns Over False Résumé”

The Heavenly assessment is much more dire: –

Hosea 4:17-19New King James Version

¹⁷ “Ephraim is joined to idols,
Let him alone.
¹⁸ Their drink is rebellion,
They commit harlotry continually.
Her rulers dearly love dishonor.
¹⁹ The wind has wrapped her up in its wings,
And they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

PROVERBS 14 :

The Ways of Life and Death

14 The wise woman builds her house,
But the foolish pulls it down with her hands.

² He who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord,
But he who is perverse in his ways despises Him.

³ In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride,
But the lips of the wise will preserve them.

⁴ Where no oxen are, the ^[a]trough is clean;
But much increase comes by the strength of an ox.

⁵ A faithful witness does not lie,
But a false witness will utter lies.

⁶ A scoffer seeks wisdom and does not find it,
But knowledge is easy to him who understands.
⁷ Go from the presence of a foolish man,
When you do not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.
⁸ The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way,
But the folly of fools is deceit.

⁹ Fools mock at ^[b]sin,
But among the upright there is favor.

¹⁰ The heart knows its own bitterness,
And a stranger does not share its joy.

¹¹ The house of the wicked will be overthrown,
But the tent of the upright will flourish.

¹² There is a way that seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death.

¹³ Even in laughter the heart may sorrow,
And the end of mirth may be grief.

¹⁴ The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways,
But a good man will be satisfied ^[c]from above.

¹⁵ The simple believes every word,
But the prudent considers well his steps.
¹⁶ A wise man fears and departs from evil,
But a fool rages and is self-confident.
¹⁷ A quick-tempered man acts foolishly,
And a man of wicked intentions is hated.
¹⁸ The simple inherit folly,
But the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
¹⁹ The evil will bow before the good,
And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

²⁰ The poor man is hated even by his own neighbor,
But ^[d]the rich has many friends.
²¹ He who despises his neighbor sins;
But he who has mercy on the poor, happy is he.

²² Do they not go astray who devise evil?
But mercy and truth belong to those who devise good.

²³ In all labor there is profit,
But ^[e]idle chatter leads only to poverty.

²⁴ The crown of the wise is their riches,
But the foolishness of fools is folly.

²⁵ A true witness ^[f]delivers souls,
But a deceitful witness speaks lies.

²⁶ In the fear of the Lord there is strong confidence,
And His children will have a place of refuge.
²⁷ The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life,
To turn one away from the snares of death.

²⁸ In a multitude of people is a king’s honor,
But in the lack of people is the downfall of a prince.

²⁹ He who is slow to wrath has great understanding,
But he who is ^[g]impulsive exalts folly.

³⁰ A sound heart is life to the body,
But envy is rottenness to the bones.

³¹ He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker,
But he who honors Him has mercy on the needy.

³² The wicked is banished in his wickedness,
But the righteous has a refuge in his death.

³³ Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding,
But what is in the heart of fools is made known.

³⁴ Righteousness exalts a nation,
But sin is a ^[h]reproach to any people.

³⁵ The king’s favor is toward a wise servant,
But his wrath is against him who causes shame.

ACSI BEGAN A PARTNERSHIP WITH “UNIFY -ED ” TO PRPMOTE RACIAL DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION WITH THE LONGTIME HEAD OF DIVERSITY AND iNCLUSION AT SOUTH EASTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL WALTER STRICKLAND. STIRCKLAND IS INFAMOUS AMONG SOUTHERN BAPTIST FOR HAVING BOASTED TO THE NEW TORK TIMES ABOUT TEACHING BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND FOUNDER JAMES CONE IN BAPTIST SEMINARIES. FOR YEARS NOW ACSI HAS CONTINUED THIS PARTNERSHIP WITH STRICKLAND ADN UNIFY-ED AND THE INFORMATION BELOW IS AN UPDATE ON THE STATUS OF THESE ONGOING RACIAL /DIVERSITY COURSES AND FOCUS FOR K-12 EDUCATION

8/8/2023

Rev Thomas Littleton

PLEASE SEE THE PREVIOUS MOVE BY ACSI TO INCLUDE THE PROGRESSIVE “SEXUAL ORIENTATION GENDER IDENTITY” /SOGI TEACHINGS OF SSA/INCLUSION ACTIVIST INTO ACSI TRAINING IN THE FIRST LINK.

ACSI /ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL -RESOURCES TEACHERS WITH REVOICE LGBTQ+ INCLUSION TRAINING

THE ACSI RACIAL /CRITICAL THEORY MOVEMENT

JUSTIFICATION BY ACSI LARRY TAYLOR

LARRY TAYLOR ARTICLE- WANTS YOU AND YOUR KIDS TO “GET IN THE SANDBOX” WITH HIM ON RACIAL THEORIES.

FOUNDATIONS

“Ambassadors of Hope”

By Dr. Larry Taylor | Leaning into diversity, living out biblically-based unity.”

“Join me on a walk around a Christian school campus. Better yet, conduct a student assembly or a faculty meeting and give each attendee a 3×5 card. Ask them to define diversity, inclusion, justice, equality, equity, woke, critical race theory, white privilege, racial-based reconciliation, systemic racism, or any other lightning-rod issue related to racial-based dissension.”

“Like the mainstream feedback from our culture, the 3×5 card answers would convey a myriad of definitions and opinions. Unfortunately, only a few answers might be based on a Christ-centered and biblical worldview.”

“The Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) unequivocally views this as an opportunity to get into this sandbox with students, faculty and parents. Yes, this sandbox is messy, and not a venture for the faint of heart. Discipleship has always been messy though. Jesus’s discipleship of the Apostle Peter is one example of the messy nature of training. And the alternative of sitting on the sidelines watching the biblically-based design for unity being co-opted by activists creates an even bigger mess. These activists espouse a worldview in which hopelessness permeates the soul of society. Hopelessness is not of God.”…

“Mr. Jerry Nelson, ACSI’s Special Assistant to the President, will oversee our renewed emphasis on biblically-based unity initiatives. Mr. Nelson clearly articulates ACSI’s meaning of biblical unity and social engagement: “Biblical unity is made possible through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Those who are in Christ are first reconciled back to God (their Creator) and then reconciled to each other. Unity, in Christ, is held together by the bond of the Spirit.”

“He goes on to say, “As Christians we understand that social engagement is a matter of the leading of the Holy Spirit to engage in the ministry of reconciliation wherever he leads—whether to poor or to the powerful and everything in between.”

“Let’s demonstrate what kingdom-inspired action looks like. “

“Our desire for unity is not politically or socially driven, but rather is given to us by God. I am confident that Christians can demonstrate to a watching world what kingdom-inspired action looks like. Today’s challenge of racial division allows us to lean into this with an informed, Christ-centered perspective. We are called to be ministers of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:20)—ambassadors of hope.”

LARRY TAYLOR OF ACSI “SPECIAL ASSISTANT ON DIVERSITY“.

“In his role as Special Assistant to the President, Nelson will provide leadership and professional expertise in the planning and implementation of initiatives identified in the ministry’s new Strategic Plan. He will work closely with Taylor and the President’s Advisory Team (PAT) to collaboratively focus on objectives within each of the three pillars comprising the Strategic Plan: Advancing, Access, and Advocacy.”

“Nelson most recently served as Head of School at Northwest Christian Academy in Miami, FL for 11 years. He expressed anticipation and desire to contribute in his new role. Among other accomplishments, while at Northwest Nelson created a professional teacher development program, a student Leadership Development Program, a Parent Education Program, and wrote three books and several educational documents specifically for students and parents.”

“It’s a privilege to be able to work with Larry Taylor in this new paradigm of ACSI,” said Nelson. “My role is broad in the sense that I will have the opportunity to speak into each of the three pillars of the Strategic Plan. However, the thread that runs throughout is to help shape a philosophy to undergird our understanding of Culture and Diversity and to develop a framework for implementing it in our daily practices.”

“I’ve known Jerry for several years, and I can’t think of anyone who is more suited to carrying out our aim to integrate diversity issues with our new strategic plan. His background as a head of an inner-city school, and experience working with minority students and families, gives him an indispensablE understanding of how to achieve this goal,” Taylor shared.”

“In addition to their primary duties, both Marchand and Nelson will serve as members of the ACSI senior leadership team.”

THE RACIAL NARRATIVE AND VOICES AT ACSI

SAMPLE ACSI COURSE ON RACE AND DIVERSITY AND “UNITY”

ACSI PD By Design – Cultivating Biblical Unity

Product ID: #PDBD22-1

Non-Member: $399.00Your Price

A Turn-Key Offering for In-House Professional Development Events

“A digital professional development offering for teachers on the theme of Biblical Unity. With 1 CEU worth of rich content from experts in this theme, ACSI PD by Design allows administrators flexibility in hosting their own in-house PD by choosing a date and schedule that works best for their staff. ACSI PD by Design provides access to affordable, high quality professional development for teachers so they can grow in their profession, acquire CEUs, and advance Christ-centered education with excellence”

“Insular Culture is a construct in the Flourishing School Culture Model (FSCM). Insular Culture is defined as, “The school shields students from the world’s brokenness, the school is independent from the surrounding community, and/or the student body lacks diversity.” In the PD by Design offering, Cultivating Biblical Unity, we engage in a discussion around the theology, philosophy, and practicality of ethnicity, race, and culture as one aspect of insular culture. The video teachings and activities provided are designed to foster a biblically-based, transformative experience for teachers to examine how they can reach every student.”

Learning Objectives for this offering:

• I am able to define Biblical unity.
• I will commit to kingdom diversity through a biblical lens.
• I am able to recognize insular culture and identify how it impacts students in my classroom.

ACSI “RACIAL UNITY” Speaker and Session Details

Jerry Nelson, Special Advisor to the President, ACSI

Jerry Nelson is the Special Assistant to the President at ACSI (Association of Christian Schools International). He provides leadership and professional expertise in the planning and implementation of initiatives identified in ACSI’s new Strategic Plan. He also leads the internal staff professional development and oversees the biblical worldview integration task force for the Flourishing School Institute. A major part of Jerry’s role involves helping ACSI develop resource to address diversity issues from a Biblical worldview, both within the ministry and for member schools. His background as Head of an inner-city school, and experience working with minority students and families, gives him an indispensable understanding of how to achieve this goal.

Dr. Walter Strickland, Executive Director, UnifiEd

( NOTE STRICKLAND WAS PART OF THE 2019 SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE WHICH TOOK A SUBMITTED RESOLUTION CONDEMING CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND INTERSECTIONALITY AND ALTERED THE RESOLUTION INTO AN AFFIRMATION OF CRT AND INTERSECTIONALITY WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF AUTHOR OR SBC MESSENGERS. SOUTHREN BAPTIST MESSENGERS WITH THE BACKDROP OF THE BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY AND LOADS ON ON STAGE DIALOG ON RACISM IN THE CHURCH- THEN UNWITTINGLY AFFIRMED THESE TOOLS OF RACIAL ACTIVIST AS “USEFUL ANALYTICAL TOOLS WITH THE GOSPEL”. STRICKLAND HAS ALSO ADMITTED TO THE NY TIMES THAT HE OFTEN TEACHES AND QUOTES JAMES CONE AND BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY IN HIS JOB AT SEBTS SEMINARY . SEBTS IS LED BY ALBERT MOHLER’S FRIEND DANNY AKIN AND IN THE DEPARTMENT STRICKLAND WORKS IN IS FUNDED BY THE SOCIAL JUSTICE ECONOMICS WHICH THIS SITE HAS REPEATEDCLY TRACED SINCE ITS 2009 INVASION OF CONSERVATIVE SEMINARIES. )

“Dr. Strickland’s passion is to equip people to flourish in their context from a deep commitment to God’s design. He is the Executive Director at UnifiEd as well as the Co-Founder and President of The Strickland Institute, Assistant Professor of Systematic and Contextual Theology at Southeastern Seminary, and Assistant Research Fellow at the Kirby Laing Centre in Cambridge (UK). He holds a PhD in theology from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. His interests include systematic and contextual theology, the African American theological tradition, education theory, and theology of work. Dr. Strickland is an associate Research Fellow of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), and his work has appeared in The Gospel Project, Canon and Culture (of the ERLC), the Gospel Coalition, the Biblical Recorder, Christianity Today, Baptist Press, and World Magazine among other media outlets.”

Joel Gaines, Head of School, The City School

Joel R. Gaines serves as Head of School at The City School in Philadelphia, PA. He graduated from Philadelphia Biblical University (Cairn University) with a B.S. in Education and Biblical Studies, and an MEd. from Cabrini University. Joel also serves at the Director of Leadership Development at UnifiEd. Joel is passionate about seeing students flourish academically, emotionally, and spiritually toward comprehensive shalom. He has 17 years of administrative experience spanning urban, suburban, public, and Christian schools.

Tia Gaines, Director of Educational Strategies, UnifiEd

Tia Gaines is the Director of Educational Strategies at UnifiEd. She also serves as Department Chair for the English department as well as the 6–12 Instructional Coach for Insight PA Cyber Charter School. Tia coaches more than 200 teachers on teaching strategies in a virtual setting. She has also taught in the School for Applied and Innovative Learning program at Delaware County Christian School in Newtown Square, PA. In addition, Tia provides consulting to schools, universities and organizations on diversity, equity, and inclusion alongside her husband, Joel.Session One: Flourishing Foundations

• Devotional
• FSCM: Relationships Domain
• Invisible Backpack

Session Two: Theological Foundations for Unity

• Defining Culture
• Gospel Journey Through Acts
• Working with Culture

Session Three: Philosophical Foundations for Unity

• Individual Implications of Insular Culture
• Cultural Competency vs Cultural Humility

Session Four: Praxis for Unity

• Uprooting by Recentering
• School House Assessment

CONCLUSION

Christian K-12 education is presently experiencing the same kind of “WOKE” and DE&I infiltration which took place over the last 15 years in conservative seminaries. In fact it is often the very same Critical Theory disciples from those institutions like Walter Strickland of SEBTS who are helping with the triclke down effect into K-12.There is little purpose this trickle down of CRT /DE&I SOGI and other racially and sexual and gender minority narratives can serve except to aid the instituitons in obtaiing grants which require DE&I and such metrics. It also allows those willing to wear the pending millstones of divine judgement to ramp up the indoctrination of our children and grandchildren at ever younger AGES ,right under our noses, in our own Christian/ church schools and institutions.The rabid reach into homeschooling of tainted agenda driven curriculum confirms they are also willing to engage the same agenda to indocrtinate our children RIGHT IN OUR OWN HOMES. Several terms come to mind to describe this effort but “Christian Education” is not one of them.

Jeremiah

The Branch of Righteousness

23 “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” says the Lord. ² Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel against the shepherds who feed My people: “You have scattered My flock, driven them away, and not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your doings,” says the Lord. ³ “But I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. ⁴ I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, nor shall they be lacking,” says the Lord.

⁵ “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness;
A King shall reign and prosper,
And execute judgment and righteousness in the ^[c]earth.
⁶ In His days Judah will be saved,
And Israel will dwell safely;
Now this is His name by which He will be called:

THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

HOMESCHOOL PARENTS AND ESPECIALLY MOM’S BE WATCHFUL. ALBERT MOHLER & OTHER COMPROMISED EVANGELICAL LEADERS & ORGANIZATIONS ARE MAKING A MOVE ON K-12 HOMESCHOOLING AND CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN EDUCATION.THIS IS AFTER OVER A DECADE OF PLAYING KEY ROLES IN THE CRT/INTERSECTIONALITY/ SAME SEX ATTRACTED /SSA, SEXUAL ORIENTATION/GENDER IDENTITY /SOGI CRITICAL/GENDER THEORIES FLOOD INTO CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION AND PULPITS.

By Rev Thomas Littleton

8/8/2023

MOHLER’S HISTORY WITH BUTTERFIELD FROM 2014 ETHICS AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES COMMISSION (ERLC) CONFERENCE WHICH LAUNCHED THE CRITICAL THEORY CONVERSATIONS ON SOGI/SSA AND “HUMAN SEXUALITY “IN THE CHURCH.

(NOTE: THESE WERE CONVERSATIONS WHICH NEVER NEEDED TO HAPPEN IF THE END GAME WAS SIMPLY TO PROVIDE ACTIVIST VOICES A PLATFORM IN THE CHURCH OR IN ORDER TO ALIGN THE CHURCH AND CHRISTIANS VIEWS WITH THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONS IDEOLOGY OF SOGI…WHICH IN FACT THEY DID SEEK TO DO.)

ALBERT MOHLER AND HIS PROTEGE’ RUSSELL MOORE INTRODUCED A HERD OF “Same Sex Attracted” (SSA)/SOGI SPEAKERS IN 2014 WHEN HE ALSO CONFESSED TO “BEING WRONG ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATION” THUS BOWING HIS KNEE TO WHAT HE HAD BEFORE NOTED IN 2005 WAS “THE ACTIVIST HERMENEUTIC TO DENY THE AUTHORITY OF THE WORD OF GOD”.

Mohler in his role in the 2014 ERLC conference assumes for himself what he confirms to be the activist hermeneutic on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity / SOGI and then introduces a wide variety of “hospitality and inclusion”activist voices including Rosaria Butterfield and the controversial Sam Allberry. Butterfield and others like Allberry, Jackie Hill Perry and Christopher Yuan have remained as the primary allowed and approved voices for the ongoing “forced” and facilitated “conversation” on human sexuality and homosexuality and now transgenderism in the church. This event and the endless conversations it spawned have never included people with fully converted, non- activist testimonies of deliverance by FAITH and the power of the Gospel. Though Butterfield’s testimony comes closer than some of the other approved voices who express their ongoing longing for same-sex relationships, she is not lacking in expressing the virtues of the culture she left behind or placing the burden of “hospitality “welcome and inclusion on the church.

THIS EVENT IS WHEN AND WHERE MOHLER AND MOORE INTRODUCED ROSARIA BUTTERFIELD (WHO IS A WIDELY EXPERIENCED ACADEMIC PRACTITIONER TRAINED IN CRITICAL THEORY) TO THE CHURCH CONVERSATION ON HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE FUTURE OF MARRIAGE.

FOR SOME THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CURIOUS PICK GIVEN THE LEVEL OF CRITICAL THEORY INFILTRATION IN SEMINARIES LIKE SBTS WHILE MOHLER HAS BEEN PRESIDENT.

“The event will equip attendees to defend marriage in the culture and strengthen marriage in the church. Conference speakers including authors such as Butterfield, AllberRy and Yuan have written about a faithful Christians struggle with same-sex attraction.”

Speakers will seek to answer the following questions:

• How do we effectively minister to those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender?
• How has the divorce culture impacted marriage in our communities and our churches?
• What does sexual faithfulness look like for a same-sex attracted Christian?
• Why did God create marriage and why did he design it for the common good?
• How should a pastor counsel a same-sex couple that wants to join his church?
• How can churches minister to those who are single, dating, divorced or celibate?
• How can Christians show the love of Christ to gay family members or neighbors?

“Registration is now available online at erlc.com/conference/registration/. A complete list of speakers can also be found “online.”:https://erlc.com/conference/speakers”

MOHLER AND HIS SSA/GENDER THEORY SPECIALST AT ACCS

ACCS EVENT WITH ALBERT MOHLER AND ROSARIA BUTTERFIELD

Association of Classical & Christian Schools

“The Repairing the Ruins Pre-Conference practicums (June 21) have been announced. Choose from one-day classes on the Grammar Classroom, Latin, or Common Arts. Register here: https://repairingtheruins.org/pre-conference/ and don’t forget to reserve your hotel room at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh!”

MOHLER AND HIS TRAINED ACTIVIST DISCIPLES HISTORY ON SEXUALITY / LGBTQ / CRT / INTERSECTIONALITY

Most people would assume that Albert Mohler has brought Rosaria Butterfield into the church conversation on homosexuality and the future of marriage in 2014 because of her conversion and former use of and expertise in critical theory/ gender/ feminine and queer theories. YET keep in mind that Mohler trained and employed the founder of Revoice Nate Collins at Mohler’s SBTS. Collins was teaching New Testament at SBTS while writing on the word “Virgin” used in the New Testament as being “proof of a third gender option in the Bible/ New Testament “. Collins papers and academic work are saturated with gender and queer theory. So how does Mohler miss this fact in his own seminary professors academic work and yet choose and promote a voice like Butterfield known for having left her academic pursuits of critical, gender, feminine and queer theories behind …if she has indeed left them behind? Is it Mohler who is confused or his disciples, or his choice of “expert” voices?

Mohler also trained and employed many, if not most of the CRT/Intersectionality practitioners who helped Mohler in the CRT filled 2016 “Removing the Stain of Racism from the SBC” project and the 2017 “purge of racism history” from SBTS. Mohler’s same CRT /CT specialist were on the 2019 Resolutuions Committee who promoted the use of CRT and Intersectionality into the heart of the Southern Baptist Convention. This extreme controversy still looms in the SBC as does the Revoice LGBTQ Thriving in Historic ( Conservative ) Churches. Revoice has even promoted LGBTQ Christianity/ Queer Christian/ treasures of Queer Theory and Queer Culture in the New Jerusalem” and the ERLC has repeatedly promoted Revoice, it’s resources, and the writings of it’s founder, a SBTS former New Testament teacher Nate Collins.

The ERLC event and the ongoing sexual and racial facilitated discussions in the conservative church realm are basically dialectical in nature. They are dialectic processes of social change. If they were not then WHY do they seek to conflict Christian listeners and offer third way options as Gospel answers and responses?

HONEST QUESTION ?

IS ROSARIA BUTTERFIELD THE EXCEPTION FOR ALBERT MOHLER IN THAT HE USES HER BECAUSE SHE IS A FORMER PRACTITIONER IN THESE CRITICAL THEORIES WHILE HE HELPS TRAIN AND EMPLOY A HOST OF OTHER ACTIVISTS WHO CONTINUE THEIR USE AND PROMOTE CRITICAL THEORIES DEEP INSIDE THEIR OWN MOVEMENT?

Thus begs another question … does Rosaria still engage the use of Critical Theories, intersectionality and dialectical process? AGAIN CONSIDER HER OWN WRITINGS AND PRESENTATION. Why in turn would a person who has specialized in Critical/ queer / gender/ feminist theory in her life before CHRIST, not REJECT, SHUN AND/OR REFUSE TO BE ASSOCIATED with any person or group who would be flooding these same ideologies and ” analytical tools of Cultural Marxism into the Church and corrupting the faith of many in Christian education?

HERE IS AN ADDITIONAL,very difficult, BUT NEEDED QUESTION: How is it possible that a saved and thinking person who knows all too well the harm of these deadly ideologies would not be conflicted beyond any ability to work with someone who IS training activist theologians in the same deadly tools? Even a casually informed observer can see the glaring contradiction of Rosaria Butterfield’s ongoing work with Albert Mohler from 2014 to the present.

DOES ROSARIA BUTTERFIELD STILL USE CRITICAL THEORY? IS SHE ENGAGING A DIALECTICAL PROCESS?

See her biography for a disturbing CONSIDERATION.

“Rosaria Butterfield, a former tenured professor of English and women’s studies at Syracuse University, converted to Christ in 1999 in what she describes as a train wreck. Her memoir The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert chronicles that difficult journey. Rosaria is married to Kent, a Reformed Presbyterian pastor in North Carolina, and is a homeschool mother, author, and speaker.”

(NOTE HER SPECIALTIES)

“Raised and educated in liberal Catholic settings, Rosaria fell in love with the world of words. In her late twenties, allured by feminist philosophy and LGBTQ+ advocacy, she adopted a lesbian identity. Rosaria earned her PhD from Ohio State University, then served in the English department and women’s studies program at Syracuse University from 1992 to 2002. Her primary academic field was critical theory, specializing in queer theory. Her historical focus was 19th-century literature, informed by Freud, Marx, and Darwin. She advised the LGBTQ+ student group, wrote Syracuse University’s policy for same-sex couples, and actively lobbied for LGBTQ+ aims alongside her lesbian partner.”

NOTE THIS STATEMENT IN HOMOSEXUALITY AND HETEROSEXUALITY WHICH ONE DIALECTICAL EXPERT IMMEDIATELY RECONGNIZED AS A DIALECTIAL PROCESS .

“She discourages usage of the term “gay Christian,” and she disputes “conversion therapy,” in part because heterosexual sin is no more sanctified than homosexual sin.”

NOTE THE THESIS – HETEROSEXUALITY & ANTI-THESIS HOMOSEXUALITY = CONSENSUS (PROJECTED) – AS BOTH BEING NORMAL SEXUAL DESIRES – “heterosexual sin is no more sanctified than homosexual sin.” NOTE THE BIBLE AUTHORITATIVELY DECLARES HOMOSEXUALITY TO BE SINFUL AS WELL AS PERVERTED AND UNNATURAL DESIRES LEADING TO THE WRATH OF GOD AND THE GIVING OVER TO DEPRAVITY OF MIND. Rosaria’s narrative is lessening something the Word of God is clearly amplifying.

Romans 1:

²⁷ Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

²⁸ And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; ²⁹ being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, ^[d]covetousness, ^[e]maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,³⁰ backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, ³¹ undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; ³² who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.”

ANOTHER QUESTION TO CONSIDER. Is the sense of equalizing heterosexual sin and homosexual sin in keeping with God’s Word or His HOLY assessment of the differences?

IS THIS A CLASSIC DIALECTICAL PROCESS?

If SO, THEN why is Rosaria Butterfield still using it? Why ELSE would Albert Mohler have introduced her along with other activist voices in 2014 ERLC event and continued to platform other CRT/ CT/Intersectionality voices if the end goal was not to do all the above using these voices to bring about social change toward LGBTQ and race in the church? Please also keep in mind that Feminism is ALREADY well inside the SBC and other conservative church movements via the #churchtoo /sex abuse charges. The SBC LEADERSHIP welcomed feminism and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion metrics and reforms in through responding to “leaked email accusations” of THE SAME (rampant sex abuse/cover ups/ and racism) Mohler disciple and ERLC partner Russell Moore.

NOTE: On the issue of “Conversion / Ex Gay Therapy” Butterfield issued a retraction in 2022 on her opposition to it but has aligned with the teachings of a New Apostolic Reformation elder and doctor on the issue, She currently admits that her shift is more based on how such therapy “applies to be detransitioning more than to homosexuality.” Butterfield has now found acceptance in one of the last remaining “Ex gay” counseling oversight and support groups called Restore Hope Network. It is also important to note that another person with Critical Theory and activist training close to Mohler was involved with the largest such “Ex Gay” support group Exodus International when Exodus was collapsed from inside by its own leadership in 2013 under Alan Chambers. That Mohler critical theory trained activist is SBTS graduate, former New Testament teacher and Revoice founder, Nate Collins. So the “Ex Gay” counseling ministries who remain are far from out of the woods on securing their futures and the support of the church as long as the uncertainty created by Albert Mohler affiliated activist being welcomed and active within their own movements.

ROSARIA’S EFFORTS TO DISCIPLE HOMESCHOOL MOTHERS LEAVES SOME SIMILAR QUESTIONS.

A professional development session for homeschool moms.

“INTELLECTUAL HOSPITALITY”
taught by Rosaria Butterfield

ROSARIA’S ONLINE COURSES FOR HOMESCHOOL MOMS ARE ON A SITE CALLED SCHOLE SISTERS . IT IS A “SISTERSHIP” OR SOPHIE SISTERHOOD.

Hi! We’re the Scholé Sisters.

And we are determined to homeschool well. You, too?

“We are passionate about reclaiming and pursuing our own education, and we know that real education happens best in community.”

“We desire to see a grassroots resurgence in the liberal arts, especially dialectic, the lost art of truth-seeking conversation.”

“So we created a not-on-Facebook place for reading, thinking homeschool moms to gather and engage in meaningful, fruitful conversation.”

“We called it Sistership, and we’d love to have you join us.”

SOPHIA AND SOPHIE BOTH HAVE BOTH FEMINIST & LESBIAN OVERTONES- WHY WOULD THESE BE USED ON A CHRISTIAN HOMESCHOOL MOM MENTORING WEBSITE?

“SOPHIA SISTERHOOD” is another group which boast itself as “The Sophia Sisterhood is a safe haven for women on the journey of sexual wellbeing and wholeness.”

“Scholé Sistership Sophie members get access to this event included in their subscription.”

https://www.scholesisters.info/rosaria/

IN THE VIDEO on the promotional page linked above, Rosaria is quick to point out to her homeschool mom “sisterhood” that the Bible must be studied like any other work of literature, with the employment of “literary theory.” This is in spite of what the Word of God says about itself …that it is not like other books. The Bible is “God breathed” and every word is inspired by the Holy Spirit”

WHAT IS LITERARY THEORY AND IS IT BIBLICAL TO USE IT TO UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE?

“Literary Theory”

“Literary theory” is the body of ideas and methods we use in the practical reading of literature. By literary theory we refer not to the meaning of a work of literature but to the theories that reveal what literature can mean. Literary theory is a description of the underlying principles, one might say the tools, by which we attempt to understand literature. All literary interpretation draws on a basis in theory but can serve as a justification for very different kinds of critical activity. It is literary theory that formulates the relationship between author and work; literary theory develops the significance of race, class, and gender for literary study, both from the standpoint of the biography of the author and an analysis of their thematic presence within texts. Literary theory offers varying approaches for understanding the role of historical context in interpretation as well as the relevance of linguistic and unconscious elements of the text. Literary theorists trace the history and evolution of the different genres—narrative, dramatic, lyric—in addition to the more recent emergence of the novel and the short story, while also investigating the importance of formal elements of literary structure. Lastly, literary theory in recent years has sought to explain the degree to which the text is more the product of a culture than an individual author and in turn how those texts help to create the culture.”

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FAITH or the role it plays in the heart and mind of the Christian approach to the Word of God is glaringly absent from this literary theory narrative.

THE ACTUAL BIBLICAL STATEMENTS ABOUT THE BIBLE – IN THE BIBLE CONTRADICT THAT IT IS TO BE APPROACHED AS “ANY OTHER BOOK“

2 Timothy 3:16-17

¹⁶ All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

IST PETER 1:

¹⁰ Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, ¹¹ searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. ¹² To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to ^[e]us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which angels desire to look into.”

2ND PETER 1

The Trustworthy Prophetic Word

¹⁶ For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty. ¹⁷ For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” ¹⁸ And we heard this voice which came from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.

¹⁹ And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts; ²⁰ knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private ^[j]interpretation, ²¹ for prophecy never came by the will of man, but ^[k]holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.”

*** WARNING = this appears to be a clearly FALSE TEACHING –BASED ON WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT ITSELF – IT IS NOT LIKE ANY OTHER BOOK AND DOES NOT NEED THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE FOR ACADEMICS TO BE UNDERSTOOD ***

It is the Holy Spirit who illuminates the Word of God to us otherwise we can be found “wrestling with it to our own destruction” as Peter warns.

No one is saved by, or obtains forgiveness of sin by approaching the Word of God as “any other book” via Literary Theory. The Word of God must be approached with repentance and faith for salvation to be owned by the hearer. Gods wisdom and ways are higher than the heavens are above the earth and His “foolishness” ” is wiser than all the volumes of sidom of men. How can we be so arrogant as to think to subject Gods Word to our ideas of literary analysis?

PLUS –THE WORD OF GOD HAS BECOME FLESH AND IS DISPLAYED BY THE LIFE OF JESUS WHICH ALSO NEEDS NO LITERARY OR CRITICAL THEORIES APPLIED TO SEE HIM FOR WHO HE IS.

JOHN 1

The Eternal Word

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. ⁴ In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. ⁵ And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

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The Word Becomes Flesh ¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

THE CORE OF ROSARIA’S CONCERN OVER INTERSECTIONALITY IS PROVIDED IN THIS RATHER ODD STATEMENT. IT IS ODD GIVEN THE DANGERS OF IT AS THE GATHERING PLACE OF EVERY OTHER CRITICAL THEORY.

“When Intersectionality joins efforts with the gospel it leaves us with an immature faith, a false hope, and a deceptive vocabulary…”

“Under intersectionality, liberation depends on the power of voice—or re-voice—of material and perceived harm. It works like this: when we allow those with a hefty load of intersections (perhaps a transgender woman of color who is deaf and poor and incarcerated) to have a larger voice in a culture and simultaneously require those who have white male heterosexual “privilege” to remain silent, we supposedly tear down the walls of material violence. Indeed, intersectionality maintains that who you truly are is measured by how many victim statuses you can claim—with your human dignity only accruing through intolerance of all forms of disagreement about your perceptions of self and world.”

“Let’s be clear: unjust violence against all image bearers of a holy God is condemned in the Bible as sin. And God knew that certain groups of people would need greater protection than others—widows, orphans, the poor, the prisoner—and He commands our immediate care of them (Heb. 13:1–3). God warns us against committing the sin of partiality (James 2:6). The most horrific forms of betrayal and sin are those committed within families and churches, when the very people who are called by God to protect the small and weak become their captors and predators. God hates this.”

“The question at hand, however, is this: Can intersectionality serve the gospel? Can we add intersectional teaching to the gospel to arrive at a better way of loving our neighbor? A number of churches and parachurch groups say yes. Intersectionality has found a home in many of our Reformed churches, notably in sensitivity training to make the church a friendlier place for “sexual minorities.”

CAREFULLY FOLLOW ROSARIA’S “INCLUSION NARRATIVE” FOR OPPRESSED PEOPLE INSIDE THE CHURCH IN HER GIVE AND TAKE ON INTERSECTIONALITY.

“God-fearing churches take violence and oppression seriously. A God-fearing church takes church membership, personal accountability, and church discipline seriously, too, because these things are connected. An oppressed person’s best defense against true violence is membership in a Bible-believing church, one that practices both hospitality and church discipline, one that protects the sheep from the wolves by driving the wolves out the door. Intersectionality banks on the power of human words, but justice for the oppressed comes by the power of the gospel.”

IS THIS (HOMESCHOOL MOM) WORKSHOP FOR ME?

“This workshop is for homeschool moms who want more out of their school day than just checking boxes and getting it done.”

“It is for moms who want to learn and grow themselves while they are helping their children learn and grow.”

“It is for women who want to engage their hearts, minds, and actions in the pursuit of wisdom and truth.”

“We hope that’s you.”

“INTELLECTUAL HOSPITALITY” WHAT DOES IT MEAN AND WHY IS BUTTERFIELD PROMOTING IT?

“INTELLECTUAL HOSPITALITY ” DEFINED: IS IT JUST ANOTHER TOOL OF THE TRADE…

“The idea of hospitality around that table has deep roots in classical literature, where the principle of hospitality, xenia, translates as “guest friendship” from the original Greek. It offers guidelines for how to gather around the table, how to serve as a host, and how to behave as a guest. Immediately upon arrival, a guest received provision, without inquiry as to his or her name or business until the duties of hospitality had been fulfilled. The stranger at the door was welcomed and cared for. In response, the guest showed respect to the host and honored the rules of the household.”… “We usually view hospitality as with an eye to impress. We invite the people we know. We clean house, buy fresh flowers, and cook special meals. Though we enjoy one another’s company, we also present our best face —our gaze is still fixed on the mirror. However, the word “hospitality” comes from the Latin hospes, which means “stranger.” Thomas Ogletree, retired Methodist minister and former dean of Yale Divinity School, suggests that to offer hospitality is to “welcome something new, unfamiliar, and unknown into our life.”

FORMER FULLER PRESIDENT EXPLAINS HIS “CHRISTIAN ” USE OF “INTELLECTUAL HOSPITALITY.”

NOTE: BOTH FULLER AND HIS BIOLA PRESENTATION HERE APPEAR TO BE ENGAGING “INTELLECTUAL HOSPITALITY ” AS A POSITIVE PURSUIT OF TRUTH AND BETTER GOSPEL FAITHFULNESS.

(FROM BIOLA’S THE TABLE- CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN THOUGHT.)

Richard Mouw

President Emeritus and Professor of Christian Philosophy, Fuller Theological Seminary

July 13, 2017

“St. Augustine famously depicted the Christian quest for truth among pagan thinkers in terms of the Israelites taking the Egyptians’ gold and silver with them when they fled from captivity. Others of us have seen the quest for truth possessed by unbelievers as best characterized by a humble exercise in intellectual hospitality. Each approach acknowledges that truth is to be gained from those with whom we disagree in fundamental ways about the important “big” issues of life. But the two outlooks, rescuing what rightly belongs to us versus a hospitable willingness to learn from others, foster the cultivation of very different styles of intellectual engagement. This paper will acknowledge some insights in the rescue approach, while finally coming down on the side of hospitality.”

“Like the mainstream feedback from our culture, the 3×5 card answers would convey a myriad of definitions and opinions. Unfortunately, only a few answers might be based on a Christ-centered and biblical worldview.”

CONCLUSION

Christian education has been the target of infiltration for decades. The advancement of those infiltration efforts has now hit warp speed in part due to the growth of homescxhooling and Christian education since Covid 19 school closings and the glaring rise of CRT/ DE&I and other activist ideologies in public education. Christians wanting to offer true biblically based education and worldview to their children must rely only on the proven basics of education and the bible as the authoritative WORD OF GOD and not on activist nor seminary presidents who train them. Sadly parents nor educators can any longer rely or on long trusted educational organizations as many now display overt signs of having gone WOKE.

Ephesians 6

Children and Parents

6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ² “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: ³ “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”

⁴ And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

Genesis 18:19 New King James Version (NKJV)For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.”

Deuteronomy 11:

¹⁸ “Therefore you shall ^[h]lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ¹⁹ You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. ²⁰ And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, ²¹ that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth.

²² “For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do—to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him— ²³ then the Lord will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves. ²⁴ Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the ^[i]Western Sea, shall be your territory. ²⁵ No man shall be able to stand ^[j]against you; the Lord your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you.

²⁶ “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: ²⁷ the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today; ²⁸ and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.