![]() That’s a big difference.” Changed view on women We have to approach Scripture humbly saying, ‘I could be wrong.’ You’ll never hear a fundamentalist say, ‘I could be wrong.’ A conservative Baptist believes in the inerrancy of Scripture a fundamentalist Baptist believes in inerrancy of their interpretation. Which is why I have to say I could be wrong. He declared: “I believe in the inerrancy of Scripture, I do not believe in the inerrancy of your interpretation, nor of mine for that matter. “A conservative Baptist believes in the inerrancy of Scripture a fundamentalist Baptist believes in inerrancy of their interpretation.” Today, a fundamentalist means you’ve stopped listening. We have fundamental atheists, we have fundamental communists, we have fundamentalists who are secularists. “But that word has changed because now we have fundamental Muslims, fundamental Buddhists. A hundred years ago, I would’ve called myself a fundamentalist, because in the 1920s, it meant you hold the historic doctrines of the church, the blood atonement of Christ, the authority of Scripture, all the basic cardinal doctrines of evangelical Protestantism. “Now, ‘fundamentalism’ is a word that has changed. This isn’t harming the testimony of anybody.”Įven though the so-called “liberals” left the SBC more than two decades ago, “this is the same old battle that’s been going on for a hundred years in the SBC between conservative Baptists and fundamental Baptist,” Warren declared. We should kick out churches that harm the testimony of the convention. And if this now falls into place, any pastor each week can stand up and say, ‘I want to kick out that church because they disagree on dispensationalism.’ We should kick out churches for sin. ![]() The modern-day fundamentalists of the SBC are “turning a confession into a creed,” Warren said. It says it in the preamble: This is not binding on any church.” Later, Warren said: “In the Baptist Faith Message, it says this is not binding on anybody. But we can’t disagree over what you name your staff?” And we can disagree over dispensationalism. ![]() Warren offered a mock query: “You mean, wait a minute, we can disagree over the atonement. We should be able to expel people over sin, racism, sexual abuse, other sexual sins, things like that.” Those particular passages from Titus, Timothy and Corinthians have hundreds, literally hundreds of interpretations. Now we’re talking about difference of interpretation. Everybody in the SBC believes in the inerrancy of scripture. I grew up with the phrase, ‘We have no creed but Christ, we have no book but the Bible.’ This is not a battle between liberals and conservatives. Warren responded with a history lesson: “Southern Baptists have always been anti-creedal. “This is not a battle between liberals and conservatives. Moore asked Warren about the SBC’s doctrinal statement, the Baptist Faith and Message, which says the office of pastor is to be held by “men qualified by Scripture.” ![]() … The autonomy only matters if it’s convenient for you.”įor the SBC to say it can’t address sexual abuse but can monitor the titles given church staff members is “nonsense,” he said. Warren responded: “It’s not an accident that the same voices that said we cannot protect women from abuse because of the autonomy of the local church are the same voices that are saying, but we can prevent them from being called pastors. And I couldn’t believe that’s what they were taking up.” Moore said he was “kind of bowled over” by the Executive Committee’s action “just because I would think with all of the crises involving the treatment of women and sexual abuse within the SBC, that saying a church is giving women too much is really not the problem in the SBC as I see it. Warren quipped that he’s “ready here to join in the former Southern Baptist support group with Beth Moore, with Russell Moore and a few others.” Bible teacher Beth Moore, no relation to Russell Moore, also left the SBC two years ago and was criticized by conservatives for “preaching” and not just “teaching.” Rick Warren addresses messengers to the SBC annual meeting. ![]()
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