This is a post for all you Southern Baptists. I'd like to share what I believe the truth is about the current condition of your denomination and where effective leadership and

I want to encourage you because I'm encouraged after what I've seen over the last few days

Now don't get me wrong. I still believe the flood of conservative churches exiting will continue.

And if I were an elder at a Southern Baptist church, I would be encouraging leaving.

That said, it is beneficial to still have a strong resistance at this moment to false teaching from within the

denomination in order to help open the eyes of those still waking up to the leftist

Blitzkrieg. Also perhaps by some miracle God will restore the denomination though I'm very skeptical of this

But if God is going to restore the denomination men like Russell Fuller are the ones that will be used to restore it.

This is my analysis of the current landscape on the conservative side for whatever it is worth.

There are basically and generally two polarized groups of public voices attempting to lead in opposition to doctrinal compromise.

The first group consists of men with institutional or ministry platforms.

We can call them the conservative elites, though they're not accepted in the actual

elite circles of the denomination. On them rests the hopes of Southern Baptist

wanting to restore the denomination to Orthodoxy. They've taken a few hits for making general statements

about the dangers of social justice and perhaps critiqued a few of the most

radical voices in the denomination. But usually after other non-elites made it somewhat possible to do so by taking the first round of arrows from the woke mob.

They are generally much more ministry-minded than politically savvy.

They never asked to be the leaders of the resistance but after a series of developments over the course of years

That is where they found themselves many of them have been slow to understand the conflict they're in and slower to inform their supporters

about the concrete dangers they see. I have absolutely no ill will toward this group,

but I have been reluctant to personally put hope in them to lead a successful resistance.

The small taste I've had of the world they're used to is filled with caution, calculation,

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