Welcome to the conversations that matter podcast. I'm your host John Harris. I am getting ready actually to leave in about an hour to go to the airport to fly to another state where I'm doing, for lack of a better term, consultation with a church and I've never actually really done that I've presented at churches and I'm doing that as well but this is the impression I get more of a question that the church has about whether or not they should stay in a

particular denomination and so I just appreciate all of you who make this kind of thing

possible and it is going to help a church and I

you know those are the only details that I think I can give at this point but but I

wanted to give you a quick word for the weekend.

I wasn't going to do a podcast today just because I have so much going on,

but I saw someone sent me a link

that there's this whole thing developing,

blowing up really on social media

about the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission for the Southern Baptist

Convention if you remember that's what Russell Moore used to head up before he left for

Christianity today.

And of course it is funded by, if you're in the Southern Baptist Convention, this is funded by

your offering.

And there's a whole blow up over the fact that they signed a letter opposing a bill in Louisiana to ban abortion.

And I have a friend actually in Louisiana who is a southern Baptist and he's involved in this and I asked him about it and he based he told me

Essentially that on the and I'm not going to get into this but he said that on the

the ground level there in Louisiana on the local level that there are a

number of southern Baptists including prominent southern Baptists in the state

who are opposing this bill and it's left him a little bit shocked that people that even

he respected that he thought clearly ethically would do this and and his words to

me were that the same lies that the Democrats were

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