TS&TT: SBC Financial Transparency: How do We Restore Trust in our Institutions?

The Sword & The Trowel

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Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Today on The Sword & The Trowel podcast, Tom Ascol and Graham Gunden welcome Pastor Rhett Burns to discuss financial transparency in the SBC. They talk about the need for financial transparency and stewardship in all of the SBC enteties and strategies for seeing it implemented in the convention. Links:https://centerforbaptistleadership.org/the-sbc-needs-a-doge-now/ | https://centerforbaptistleadership.org/author/rhett-burns/ Show Notes:Get 10% off Miller's Grove Soap with code "FOUNDERS": https://TheMillersGrove.com Pre-Order "What Did God Make?": http://press.founders.org/shop/what-did-god-make/ Get a FREE Bag of Coffee from Squirrelly Joe's: https://SquirrellyJoes.com/Founders Check out the Founders Study Center: https://study.founders.org/ Register for the 2026 National Founders Conference - Make Disciples: https://founders.org/conference/ Pre-Order "Resist Tyrants, Obey God": https://press.founders.org/shop/resist-tyrants-obey-god/ Shop the Founders Press Store: https://press.founders.org/ Become a part of the F.A.M. https://press.founders.org/fam/ The Institute of Public Theology: https://www.instituteofpublictheology.org/ Wield The Sword: https://founders.org/wieldthesword/ Follow Founders Ministries: Website: https://founders.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/FoundersMin/Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoundersMinInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/foundersministries/ All Founders Ministries resources are copyrighted and any use and distribution must be approved by Founders Ministries.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for this episode of The Sword and the Trial today.
0:02.5	Today, Pastor Tom and I talk with Pastor Rhett Burns.
0:05.6	He's pastor of First Baptist Church of Travelers Rest in South Carolina.
0:09.4	And he's done a lot of good work, a lot of good writing on the issue of financial transparency in the Southern Baptist Convention.
0:15.4	He's got a lot of good things to say, some strategic points as well to make about how we should approach this issue in the
0:21.9	SBC. So I hope this is helpful to you. Please take a listen.
0:27.5	Welcome to The Sword and the Trial. The Sword in the Trial is a podcast of founders' ministries.
0:31.3	And founders exist for the recovery of the gospel and the reformation of local churches.
0:35.3	I'm Graham Gundin. I'm Tom Askell.
0:36.9	And today's episode is brought to you by
0:38.4	the Miller's Grove soap company and Squirley Joe's Coffee as well. Today we have on Pastor Rhett Burns. He is the
0:45.1	pastor of First Baptist Church of Travelers Rest South Carolina. Welcome to the episode.
0:50.6	Thank you so much for having me. Looking forward to talking with you guys. Well, Rhett, you're a pastor of a Southern Baptist Church in South Carolina, and you have been
0:58.1	involved in the SBC when it comes to bringing accountability to our organization and to our
1:04.6	entities, both as you write for different organizations, and then also even from the floor
1:10.2	of the convention you've spoken
1:11.2	to this issue. And so we wanted to talk to you a little bit about that. You've recently written
1:15.2	an article for the Center for Baptist Leadership, especially when we think about the things that
1:19.5	are happening in some of the governmental reform in our own nation and how that really needs to be
1:23.7	transferred to the convention as well. Maybe you can walk us to do kind of your history
1:28.1	in calling for this, especially financial transparency in the Southern Baptist Convention.
1:33.5	Sure. So I guess I would start with my history, just with the Southern Baptist Convention.
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