Welcome to the conversations that matter

podcast my name is John Harris we are going to talk about the

Southern Baptist Convention for one hopefully last time for a while at least we'll see

I did put out by the way a message to the head of the

conservative Baptist network if they want to make the argument that Southern

Baptist should stay in the convention my platform is open to them and I wouldn't mind

doing an interview on that. But today we're going to have a shorter podcast I

think and I'm just going to give you the opposite side. Eight reasons to leave the Southern Baptist Convention. And this is the

culmination of my own thoughts over the last few days. It's no small thing you have

a president of the convention who has co-preached sermons with his wife against

what the Baptist faith and message 2000 says and some of you listening maybe

your denomination is okay with that but the southern Baptists are not and you have

someone who's doing that you have someone who's doing that. You have someone who up until yesterday morning had on their church website an unorthodox view of the Trinity partialism.

That is also just very interesting and they changed it when it was called out with no explanation.

And someone of course who is woke and I you know someone had sent me something I neglected to mention that Ed Lytton had signed a statement

You've probably seen so many of these statements you're getting sick of them but it was a call to

repentance for the SBC for its racism etc. I think it might have originated

with Dwight McKissick who's more of a progressive social justice advocate

in the Southern Baptist Convention but Ed Lytton signed it anyway there's a lot of examples of that kind of thing.

And this is the man now running the ship.

And this is just not only that, but what happened in the executive committee, the purge conservatives there what happened with some of the resolutions what happened

with some of the floor motions this is just causing a lot of people to say what's

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