Hey everyone some trail talk today. I was taking a hike and I had a thought that came to

mine I wanted to share because it is a piercing observation and there was an email that Rosario Butterfield sent to me, I don't know, a week or two ago.

And she made this statement and it stuck with me. She said,

Evangelical leaders think that course correction is a substitute for repentance.

Course correction is a substitute for repentance. Course correction is a substitute for repentance. And it's

piercing and profound because it's so true and there's so many examples of this.

One of the first examples that came to my mind are the folks at First Baptist

Church of Naples who were accused a few years ago of harboring racial animosity against a pastoral candidate who

happened to be black. When you looked into the story though you found out there was actually really nothing to that charge.

The charge was, if there was a charge, it was that they didn't want a woke pastor and they didn't want a pastor who

would change certain things about the church and they wanted the pastor who

was qualified according to the church's constitution and the whole documentary

was made about it you can check it out you probably just go on

YouTube and type in First Baptist Church Naples and it'll come right up but that

stood out to me because I was in the rooms with some of these people,

seeing their tears, hearing their stories, and that kind of thing kind of sticks with you.

And the thing that... kind of

the thing that I find still shocking about that

is the lack of apology at the time the who's who of Southern Baptist leadership came out to denounce

these horrible racist individuals in the Southern Baptist Convention.

Where are their apologies? Where are their apologies?

Even though the evidence has been provided, it's been out there for years.

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