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Evangelical Christians were a regular presence in the Trump White House. They laid hands on the president as they prayed for him, stood at his shoulder as he signed executive orders, and saw vindication for their support in his antiabortion policies and conservative judicial appointments.
Now, the Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest and most influential evangelical denomination, is at war over what direction it will take after the Trump presidency.
One faction argues the SBC should step back from its role in electoral politics in order to broaden its reach and reverse a 15-year decline in membership. Another faction says the denomination has been drifting to the left, and the way to retain and attract members is to recommit to its conservative roots and stay politically engaged. Each side accuses the other of straying from the SBC’s core mission.
The internal fissures exploded into public view when Russell Moore, the SBC’s top lobbyist in Washington and a frequent critic of Donald Trump, unexpectedly announced his resignation in May. Last week, letters he wrote criticizing other high-ranking SBC officials over their handling of sex-abuse allegations and attitudes about race became public.
Russell Moore
Mr. Moore’s sudden departure comes as the group’s president, J.D. Greear, ends his term this month, leaving two of the denomination’s most prominent jobs, which help define evangelicalism, open at once.
Mr. Moore’s board of trustees will appoint his successor. The election to replace Mr. Greear—Southern Baptists will vote at their annual meeting in Nashville, beginning Sunday—has turned into a battle for the future of the denomination and of evangelicalism more broadly.
“Do we want to be a Gospel people or a Southern, Republican culture people?” Mr. Greear said in a February speech. “We ought not make it hard for Democrats to come to Jesus.”
For decades, evangelicals have been a powerful, conservative bloc. But even as their political power grew, Southern Baptist membership rolls, like those of many religious groups in the U.S., have been shrinking.
Though still the country’s largest Protestant denomination, members currently number around 14 million, down from a peak of more than 16 million in 2006, following their largest drop in more than a century in 2020.
The denomination, which is 90% white, is also aging, and the close association with the Trump administration exacerbated generational and ideological divides. Southern Baptist leaders have been trying to win younger and more diverse members. But while younger evangelicals are still conservative, studies show they are more racially diverse, more likely to support rights for LGBT people and immigrants, and less supportive of Mr. Trump and his politics.
Ed Litton, an Alabama pastor running for SBC president, says evangelicals’ close association with the Republican Party risks alienating people they should be winning over, including the very demographics the SBC needs to attract to start growing again: young people and people of color. He isn’t suggesting Southern Baptists ally with Democrats; rather, like Mr. Greear, he wants them to distance themselves from all political parties and candidates.
On the other side, a group called the Conservative Baptist Network formed last year to combat what its members see as drift away from biblical orthodoxy toward liberalism. Their candidate, Mike Stone, says the convention’s leaders have pushed social justice causes that undermine the denomination’s mission, and are out of touch with Southern Baptists in the pews.
“We see some worldly ideologies, philosophies and theories that are beginning to make their way into Southern Baptist life,” Mr. Stone, the group’s candidate for SBC president, said to a Macon, Ga., church in March this year. “Our Lord isn’t woke.”
No matter who wins, the convention will have to confront the growing possibility of a schism.
This was bound to happen. The Judeo-Christians are utterly bankrupt. They are heretics who are now bordering on Satanism.
How about we stick to Jesus’ word and protect His teachings?
There should be no debate.
People are either following Jesus Christ, or they’re not.
Crucem sanctam subiit,
qui infernum confregit,
accintus est potentia,
surrexit die tertia.
Alleluia
Surrexit Christus
et illuxit populo suo:
quem redemit
sanguine suo.
Alleluia
Crucem sanctam subiit,
qui infernum confregit,
accintus est potentia,
surrexit die tertia.
Alleluia
Surrexit Christus
iam non moritur:
mors illi ultra
non dominabitur.
Alleluia
Crucem sanctam subiit,
qui infernum confregit,
accintus est potentia,
surrexit die tertia.
Alleluia
Surrexit Christus
lapidem quem reprobaverunt
aedificantes: hic factus est
in caput anguli.
Alleluia
Crucem sanctam subiit,
qui infernum confregit,
accintus est potentia,
surrexit die tertia.
Alleluia
