This is exactly what I thought the response would be.
DW
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Schobert [mailto:cschobert@...]
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 11:20 AM
To: pastorsforum@...
Subject: RE: [PastorsForum] Lifeway
No offense meant to any one, but the article sounds like it is little more
than petty jealousy on the part of the writer. When we can get past the "I'm
better than you because..." mentality God will use us in mighty ways. God
can not do much with us with all of our "religious" undies in a bunch. The
issue seems to be more of earthly pride, than anything else.
Remember the words of Jesus;
Luke 9:49-50 (New King James Version)
49 Now John answered and said, "Master, we saw someone casting out demons in
Your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow with us." 50 But
Jesus said to him, "Do not forbid him, for he who is not against us is on
our side."
Chuck Schobert
-----Original Message-----
From: Pastor David Warner [mailto:dwarner@...]
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 10:00 AM
To: pastorsforum@...
Subject: RE: [PastorsForum] Lifeway
Here is the article that started all this debate. The criticism is not so
much with the SBC as with fundamental Baptists. Our SBC friends on the
forum didn't like the mention of SBC, I guess, in showing the downward trend
among fundamental Baptists. This article was written to fundamental Baptist
to alert them to an event that Brother Cloud sees, I think, as more of the
slippery slope in religious affairs.
David Warner
SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHOSEN TO HEAD THE INDEPENDENT BAPTIST NETWORK.
Friday Church News Notes, April 1, 2005 (Fundamental Baptist
Information Service, www.wayoflife.org fbns@...,
866-295-4143) - A Southern Baptist has been selected to head the
misnamed Independent Baptist Network. According to the Baptist Bible
Tribune, the voice of the Baptist Bible Fellowship International
(BBFI), John Rawlings has announced that Gene Sims has agreed to head
the IBN and oversee its newly established office in Atlanta. Sims was
vice president of Lifeway Christian Resources, the chain of worldly,
ecumenical bookstores associated with the Southern Baptist
Convention, where you can find the raunchiest "Christian" rock as
well as books promoting a wide assortment of heretics and
compromisers, such as Mother Teresa, C.S. Lewis, Chuck Colson, and
Billy Graham. Southern Baptists can't be faulted for joining the IBN,
but fundamental Baptists once knew better.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Schobert [mailto:cschobert@...]
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 9:53 AM
To: Pastorsforum
Subject: [PastorsForum] Lifeway
Since when is Lifeway liberal? What have they done that says they are
liberal? Do not give me generalities, give me specifics. If we are going to
"throw stones" I think it would be wise to know of what we are talking
about. Churches are in the habit of throwing the terms "liberal" and
"conservative" and even "fundamentalist" around so much the meanings have
been watered down to simply mean if you agree with me your what I am if not,
then your the other.
Because I work in a hospital, does that make me a doctor, because some who
work there are Doctors? Because I go to a Giants game does that make me a
football player. Because I work at a company that there may be some who are
"liberal" in their doctrine, does that mean I am automatically a liberal?
If we spent as much time lifting Christ as we do kicking or own, how vast
would the kingdom be!!!!!
Chuck Schobert
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