FOUNDERS MINISTRIES IS VIEWED BY SOME (MOSTLY THEIR OWN MEMBERS AND FELLOW NEO-CALVINIST) AS THE HOPE OF THE TROUBLED AND COLLAPSING SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION.

WHAT FOLLOWS IS A SHORT LIST OF WHY FOUNDERS CANNOT SAVE THE SBC.

Rev Thomas Littleton

5/30/2024

Founders Ministries is one of several parachurch groups and movements seeking to offer themselves as hopeful reformers for the sick and dying Southern Baptist Convention. Others include Conservative Baptist Network (CBN), G3 Ministires ( the founder of which has already left the SBC) ,the fairly new Center for Baptist Leadership ( with “leadership” coming from a disciple of two of SBC chief stealthy WOKE troublers Albert Mohler and Mark Dever) . Also Founders has made alliances with secular media appearing more like CONTROLLED OPPOSITION than actual reformers. Now Founders are promoting a deepening of their alliance with the misguided OPERATIVES in the long term disaster and self parody calling for the “abolition of abortion”.

NOTE- THIS MOVEMENT WILL PROVIDE ONE OF THE GREATEST FUND RAISING SPECTACLES FOR THE PRO -ABORTION LOBBY YET- AT THE EXPENSE OF THE GOSPEL.

Sure on the surface to imagine a world where the sin of Abortion is outlawed and eliminated sounds like a true Pro-Life position . But in the post Roe-v-Wade era with the momentary battle moved back from the federal level to the states and abortions going from clinics to self administered chemical termination… the changing landscape offers a much more grim set of realities than the Abolitionist Manifesto and these Baptist Calvinist can seem to COMPREHEND and are subscribing to.

REALITY CHECK ON FOUNDERS EFFORTS AS REFORMERS OF THE SBC:

There is mounting evidence against looking to Tom Ascol and Founders Ministries to actually offer any Gospel centered hopes for the dying SBC.

A short list:

• Founders was a divisive and subversive effort from its own founding as early leaders admit in the book “A Quiet Revolution” recounting their work to lure new seminary graduates and gain pulpits by stealth with their brand of Neo Calvinist reformation.
• Current Founders head Tom Ascol and other leaders CANNOT fully break ties with their historic allies like Albert Mohler, John Piper and John MacArthur no matter how fringe and tainted they have become. Founders continue close reliance and associations with the Neo Calvinist/TGC/T4G/ 9MARKS leaders organizations and many seminaries under their control and which have been infected with WOKE funding for years.
• Founders Ministries remain popular among pastors of many small churches with very low membership and almost no evangelism. There is simply no growth and the primary function appears to be promoting their brand of Calvinist doctrine.
• The Founders brand is more 70s era “fundamentaist/Bob Jones” seasoned with a VERY heavy focus on Calvinism.This often attracts mean spirited and arrogant followers who love to argue “theology” and view the gospel endgame as being ” RIGHT”.
• The early Founders Ministries movement actually made possible the rise of the horrific influence of Calvinist Tim Keller’s The Gospel Coalition- a progressive political movement wraped in Calvinist theology.
• After the TGC damage became undeniable -Founders and Ascol efforts with the “Dallas Statement” proved YEARS LATE & failed to alter the WOKE Justice trajectory of the SBC.
• Founders and Ascol appear unable to recognize the real enemy and the larger issues allowing themselves to become a part of the window dressing and media circus during annual SBC meetings.
• Founders and Ascol chose to ally with Charlie Kirk and the TPUSA Faith movement despite Kirk’s long history of pro LGBTQ+ inclusive/Libertarian , not Biblical Conservative, political stances.
• Founders and Ascol continue to ally with people like Jeff Durbin – one of the “Abolitionist” leaders known for his underhanded recording of church member counseling sessions and public basking in celebrity through the glorification of violent martial arts rooted in false Eastern Religions. -A brief history of Durbin’s bio quoted here should confirm need for serious concern over this Founder’s Calvinism / Abolisionist ally. -” Durbin is a former hospital chaplain who is a world champion martial artist with five Black Belts. He played Michelangelo and Donatello for the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” franchise as well as Johnny Cage in “Mortal Combat” the world-tour. He also appeared as a fighter in MTV’s “The Final Fu.”
• Tom Ascol seems unable to recognize controlled opposition when he is being used by it.
• FOUNDERS and Ascol seem to only recently be searching for and finding their political voice after being MIA for much of the progressive lefts progress among Christians.
• Founders and all it’s leaders seem to think that the answer to the many many years of damage done by “Neo-Calvinist” can be remedied by … MORE CALVINISM.
• Founders has yet to admit to itself and to other Southern Baptist the role it’s own activities and theological movement has played in the decline of the SBC since 1983.
• Tom Ascol proved the weakness of the movement in his failed attempt to become President of the SBC – “Out of 5,587 votes cast, Barber received 3,401 (60.87%), and Florida pastor Tom Ascol received 2,172 votes (38.88%). “
• Tom Ascol has chosen a woman from secular media to front his current opposition and give voice to “exposing” the problems false teachers and dirty funding have created. More on this later BUT Ascol is choosing a woman to stand behind and be Founders bold and outspoken “prophetess” while entering the SBC annual meetings.The 2024 Conventions focus is ironically fighting for “The Law Amendment” to disfellowship churches who ordained and employ women “pastors”. Ascol and Founders seem blind to their own apperance of conflict and cowardice. Meanwhile Founders made a practice of ignoring these same facts while reported on for over a decade and a half by MANY Calvinist researchers. WHY not act when it mattered most and why not use the dedicated researchers from your own camp who are long time theological allies?
• Ascol and Founders contniue to use Neo-Calvinist ,longtime TGC leader and SBTS head Albert Mohler as another of their spokespersons over issues like women pastors when the realityis that it is his long term discsiples who brought the “# Church Too”, Revoice LGBTQ, and CRT/BLT WOKE Justice movements into the SBC. Mohlers SBTS Commonweal Project houses the same dirty funding which flooded the false justice WOKE movement into seminaries since 2009- in the name of economics. Even members of Ascol’s own team are tied to this same dirty finding and perhaps noone is supposed to notice.

FOUNDERS AND THE ABORTION ABOLITIONIST –

THE RADICALS AND THE LEGALLY ABSURD STREAMS MEET.

“FOUNDERS IS RECRUITING …UNCLE TOM WANTS YOU!”

“Join me and my brothers as we will labor to equip you to be faithful in the endeavor to abolish abortion to the glory of God in the name of Christ Jesus.”

“Early bird pricing is available for a limited time “

Register now https://faa.life/equip2024

END ABORTION NOW – THE DURBIN GROUP HAS SOUGHT TO CRIMINALIZE WOMEN WHO HAVE OR SEEK ABORTIONS.

https://endabortionnow.com/who-we-are/

THE LEFT RESPONDED TO THE EXTREME FRINGE REPRESENTED BY THE MOVEMENT IN A JULY 2022 NY TIMES ARTICLE-

“Even as those in the anti-abortion movement celebrate their nation-changing Supreme Court victory, there are divisions over where to go next. The most extreme, like Mr. Durbin, want to pursue what they call “abortion abolition,” a move to criminalize abortion from conception as homicide, and hold women who have the procedure responsible — a position that in some states could make those women eligible for the death penalty. That position is at odds with the anti-abortion mainstream, which opposes criminalizing women and focuses on prosecuting providers.”

THE ABOLITIONIST VISION PROMOTED BY FOUNDATION TO ABOLISH ABORTION FOUNDER BRADLEY PIERCE

PLEASE CAREFULLY READ AND ASK YOURSELF HOW THIS KIND OF EFFORT COULD EVER BE LEGALLY ENFORCED AND THE LEGAL BATTLES THAT EVEN THESE EFFORTS WILL AID TO AMPLIFY.

ALSO NOTE THE SLIGHT NUANCE FROM THE DURBIN ORGANIZATION POSITION.

AT LEAST THIS FOUNDATION EFFORT DOES NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE AS THOSE WHO BROUGHT THE WOMAN “CAUGHT IN THE VERY ACT” OF ADULTERY -AND NOT BRING THE MAN TO BE STONED TOO.

Again read carefully the language and legal process outlined in this vision-

An abolitionist vision.

“Imagine this future.“-

“Abortion is completely illegal.

Laws that have protected people from assault, homicide, and wrongful death after their birth now also protect them before birth—from the moment of conception.

Instead of law enforcement officers guarding abortion clinics, they now raid them.

Women who find out they are mothers no longer think of abortion as a legitimate option.

Churches, nonprofits, and communities provide mothers encouragement, resources, and a loving community.

Instead of calling abortion a choice, counselors describe it as the sin of murder for which there is forgiveness in Christ to those who repent.

No one who had an abortion before it was outlawed may be prosecuted.

The very few parents who break the new law by hiring someone to murder their child or doing it themselves risk arrest, along with those who assist them.

Many parents arrested are given immunity in return for their testimony against abortionists.

All defendants face a justice system of law enforcement, prosecutors, grand juries, judges, trial juries, and appellate courts, each part of which is tasked with considering each situation on a case-by-case basis, including mitigating circumstances.

Those defendants who cannot afford an attorney are provided one.

Governors review each conviction and decide whether or not to grant a pardon, a reprieve, or to commute the sentence.

In other words, the same justice system protecting born people also protects those not yet born.

Laws prohibit prosecution of accidental miscarriages or conviction of mothers who abort their child while under threat of force, mothers whose lives are threatened by a medical emergency, or mothers who truly do not know what they are doing—these mothers are protected from criminal liability by existing legal justifications and defenses of duress, necessity, mistake of fact, among others.

Parents, boyfriends, husbands, and others who pressure or aid a mother to abort her baby are all subject to prosecution.

New technologies are developed to address ectopic pregnancies and other medical emergencies to better protect both mother and child.

Fertility doctors using in vitro fertilization no longer fertilize more eggs than they implant.

Legal and financial barriers to adoption are lowered.

Ultimately, as a society, we and our institutions treat all human life from the moment of fertilization as made in the image of God and deserving of love, respect, and equal protection of the laws.

These actions that are fruits of repentance invite God to withhold His hand of judgment upon our land and extend His hand of blessing.“

(THE VISION STATEMENT OF THE FOUNDATION ENDS HERE )

MORE ASCOL /FOUNDERS LOST POSTURING IN THE FOG OF CULTURE WARS.

Ascol and Founders , in the lead up to the SBC 2024 meetings appear to be seeking to impress Southern Baptist that they are on the cutting edge exposing the error and those responsible for it in the SBC. AGAIN the problem is that in stead of featuring the work of any one of a dozen Reformed researchers over the last decade and a half- Ascol has chosen to feature a long time red carpet /entertainment reporter from the troubled publication WORLD Magazine. The reporter- a woman named Megan Basham- is now a Claremont Institute trained “investigative reporter” for Daily Wire the SECULAR publication led by non Christian , Jewish Ben Shapiro.

Basham picks up on the overworn concept of the “Rented Evangelical” from 5 elections cycles ago in a new book being FEATURED BY Founders and Ascol as well as by the Center for Baptist Leadership (headed by Mark Dever and Albert Mohler trainee William Wolfe.)

THE FOUNDERS MINISTRIES SALES PITCH-

FoundersMin

FULL EPISODE with

@megbasham

| Shepherds for Sale: Evangelical Leaders Trading the Truth for a Leftist Agenda Pre-order Megan’s book: https://harpercollins.com/products/shepherds-for-sale-megan-basham?variant=41499845623842… https://founders.org/podcasts/tstt-megan-basham-shepherds-for-sale-evangelical-leaders-trading-the-truth-for-a-leftist-agenda/…

@tomascol

#SBC24 #SBC #SouthernBaptist

“@tomascol asked if there was anything that surprised her in the research Megan says there were three names that kept coming up:

Tim Keller J.D. Greear Russell Moore”

OLD NEWS IS NO NEWS WHEN DECPTIONS HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO GO ON FOR OVER A DECADE –

Both the George Soros and Pierre Omidyar funding into evangelical church organizations has been constantly exposed for many YEARS. Why focus on it while ignoring the corruption of th SBC accepting government and private foundation funding through Faith Based Partnerships and the flood of WOKE Justice funding into seminaries since 2009?

WHY ONLY CALL THEM OUT WHEN THE OFFENDERS ARE MOSTLY GONE AND THE DAMAGE IS DONE?

??? IS THIS JUST CONTROLLED OPPOSITION AND ASCOL IS TOO OUT OF TOUCH TO UNDERSTAND HOW MEDIA WORKS ???

“Controlled opposition refers to a strategy in which an individual, organization, or movement appears to be in opposition to a particular faction or ideology but is actually covertly controlled or influenced by that faction or a third party. The purpose of controlled opposition is often to deceive, manipulate, or neutralize genuine opposition or dissent. Identifying controlled opposition can be challenging, but there are certain indicators that can help in recognizing its presence.”

REAL OPPOSITION TAKES PLACE WHEN THE INFILTRATION AND DECEPTION IS FIRST DISCOVERED AND ITS HARM CAN BE AVOIDED.

ENTERTAINMENT REPORTER BASHAM LOOKS TO BE FEATURED SPEAKER AT ASCOL FOUNDERS & CENTER FOR BAPTIST LEADERSHIP UPCOMING CONFERENCE AT THE SBC ANNUAL MEETINGS IN INDIANAPOLIS –

Center For Baptist Leadership“Update on Center for Baptist Leadership and Founders Ministries event at the SBC Annual Meeting:

“We had such amazing interest and rapid registration for our event that our generous sponsors have agreed to provide some of the free resources to more than the first 500 who registered!”

SO NOW FOUNDERS IS A REVIVAL MOVEMENT?

FOUNDERS DEVOTED CALVINIST FOLLOWING HAVE HISTORICALLY HATED “REVIVALIST” IN THE CHURCH AND PREFERRED “REFORMER ” OR “REFORMATION ” LABELS.

SO WHY IS FOUNDERS / ASCOL NOW MARKETING ITS EFFORTS AS A REVIVAL MOVEMENT?

MAKE UP YOUR MINDS -LOVE IT OR HATE IT JUST DONT PLAY BOTH SIDES.

HONEST QUESTION- Is this message below that PRAYER being retro fitted into the schedule was an after thought?

IT CERTAINLY LOOKS THAT WAY.

THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND TRUE REVIVAL KNOW THAT PRAYER IS FIRST AND LAST THE MOST ESSENTIAL ELEMENT AND ACTIVITY…NOT POLISHING DEBATABLE THEOLOGY.

FoundersMinistries

May 30

“We are great need of revival in our land. And the Lord works through the prayers of His people. We are looking forward to a slight change in schedule at the #NFC25, where we will start both Friday and Saturday mornings with prayer meetings.”

A revival movement that has to remind itself to put prayer in the schedule is in trouble before it begins.

CONCLUSION

Christians must look to the Lord and His Holy Word and PRAY for His intervention

They must also admit and repent of the true state of our nation and the church as the prophet Isaiah did in Chapter One of the prophetic book which bears his name.

Isaiah 1King James Version

1 “The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

² Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

⁴ Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

⁵ Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

⁶ From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

⁷ Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

⁸ And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

⁹ Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

¹⁰ Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

¹¹ To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

¹² When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

¹³ Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

¹⁶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

¹⁷ Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

¹⁸ Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

¹⁹ If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

²⁰ But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

²¹ How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

²² Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

²³ Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

²⁴ Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

²⁵ And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

²⁶ And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

²⁷ Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

²⁸ And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

²⁹ For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

³⁰ For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

³¹ And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.”