Please go to this link and then read my below comments which refer to various points in the article.
My comments below in brackets. For what they are worth.
As long as our governmental representatives are perverse and cater to perverts, no business is safe; the only option is for all churches to UNINCORPORATE, because a corporation is not a right but a privilege granted by the state and all corporations can be taxed or legislated out of existence at the whim of the state (again, if the people allow immoral people to change the laws... which they do every year).
The line is being drawn in the sand. Which side will you be on? Like the showdown between Moses and Korah et al. I should also point out that by not choosing, you have already made your choice (and it is not choosing to side with God).
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Just days before the convention.... pastor Danny Cortez....
[Cortez. This is what happens when the heirs of Christendom surrender their heritage and responsibility to the third world; seating the dogs at the master's table as equals with the Master's children (forcing them to simply ignore or smile when the dogs poop on the table or bite the children, not letting the children even eat), soon to unseat the master's children and force them to eat from the crumbs that fall under the table. Here we have a new Cortez (which means "cuts" or "courts" and he is certainly courting danger and has cut himself off from the grace of God--that is, if he was ever party to it. He represents the leader of the new conquistadores, who will attempt to conquer, not the barbarian cannibal Aztecs of Mexico, but morality and Christendom with a perverse crime that God condemns as an abomination with the same penalty as those who commit murder, offer sacrifice (human or otherwise) to pagan gods, or who would eat human flesh.]
In the letter, Cortez describes a sunny day at the beach
[Amazing... it has nothing to do with the Word of God. He simply changed his mind while on the beach. A true scholar and Christian and moral leader that all can look up to! The blind leading the blind.]
Shortly thereafter, he told his 15-year-old son ....
[How disgusting. "Touched By An Angel" Theology, as I call it. To them, God is an impotent, doting, senile old grandfather who just smiles at everything; such "Christians" have no concept of holiness, sin, judgment, repentance, suffering of the innocent victim to provide atonement (which covers the HIDEOUSNESS of sin, initially by the slaughter of innocent animals, then the perfect Lamb of God Who was typified in the animal sacrifices which only provided temporary atonement until Christ came--and it was not the animal sacrifices which saved, but the repentance of the offerant in conjunction with the faith of God's forgiveness), etc. He probably already knew his son was perverse and that is why he "changed" his view--as most so-called "Christians" (who are not Christians, but humanists) do. The majority of so-called "Christians" (who are not Christians, because they do not follow or obey Christ, they follow themselves) are experientially based, not revelationally based; they determine what they believe according to their own experience, what is good for them--what THEY WANT to believe; the only true faith is based on what God has said and it is uncompromising and never changes.]
According to the pastor, ....
[Sadly, regardless of the SBC's position on perversion, it should be rather irrelevant what the position of the "SBC’s confession of faith, the Baptist Faith & Message" is, but what God's Word says on the matter. This is the FIRST STEP away from God. Referring to the official church handbook rather than the Word of God. It removes God one step from the picture. It desensitizes the congregant into placing face in the official denomination board (which can be elected, deposed, and which can vote and change what the "official position" actually is; rather than placing complete faith and obedience in God Himself.]
In his letter, the pastor said....
[It is not grace in the midst of disagreement, it is "grace" in the midst of perversion--which is disgrace! It is blasphemy against God. "Third Way" church...! WHERE do they come up with such nonsense... WHAT are they smoking...? HOW can they still call themselves "Christian"...? Christ did not bless sodomites or harlots and pat them on the head and say have a wonderful life. IF they were REPENTANT He said, "GO AND SIN NO MORE." This is profound spiritual DELUSION. This is why cancer is cut out of a healthy body; it is not simply left to spread and call it "alternative cell identity" or "third way cellular aberration." "Christians" who tolerate and embrace such are not Christians, they are not followers of Christ. Christ declared, "But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 10:33) It is a DENIAL of Christ when one does not stand up for the truth. Christ said "I am the way the TRUTH and the life. To change His Name and call him "Julio" and change His Doctrine to agree with your own sinful lifestyle or mindset, is not following Christ, is evidence of nonconversion, is evidence of reprobation and forcing God to conform to what man wants. This reducing God to a concept and he next step beyond this is to do away with the concept of God altogether.]
Pastor Cortez cited Wilson’s argument....
[Sorry, but God's Word has commanded such judgment be cast... when the matter is blatant sin that God condemns. "Judge not that ye be not judged" is twisted out of context in such applications. Only someone looking for an excuse to embrace his own sin uses this passage in a twisted manner of Swiss cheese theology, anti-intellectualism, and secular humanism (though Captain Cortez did not mention this verse--or ANY OTHER verse; oddly, he undertakes a MAJOR "doctrinal" position and offers no verse of Scripture in support; only vague innuendo of generic humanistic philosophy; such is indicative of being spiritually dead... only a carnal mind led astray by the emotions which cannot understand the Word of God--in fact, it does NOT WANT to understand the Word of God, only twist it to its own use). MANY other passages of Scripture command us not only to judge, discern, test, and prove, but also to excommunicate and even deliver unto Satan if the so-called "Christian" refuses to repent.]
But, there is no third way....
[There are NO "theological" differences. It is humanism vs. theology. Those who reject what God's Word says in favor of what they want to believe, have rejected theology and have rejected God; which is proof that they have been rejected OF God. God does not honor what I have referred to as "Smorgasbord Christianity." You cannot pick and choose what you want from God's Word and disregard the rest as unwanted garbage. Christ and God are not LORD unless you submit to God and what He said. That is why Christ rhetorically asked, "Why call ye Me Lord, Lord, and do not the things I say?" (the unstated answer being, "--because I am not your Lord") and for this reason Christ also said, "Not all who call unto me Lord, Lord, shall enter the Kingdom, but those who do the Will of My Father which is in Heaven... and many on that day will declare, 'but did we not do all these good works in Thy Name?" and Christ will reply to them, "depart from Me ye that work iniquity, I never knew you." You cannot ride the fence, remain uncommitted, or neutral. You must choose sides. Christ said, "If you are not for Me you are against Me; if ye gather not with Me (do the very work that I am doing--the Will of My Father), ye scatter abroad" (you do the work of the enemy, seeking to undo My Work, working against Me). Joshua said, "Choose you this day." Scripture tells us, "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey" (Romans 6:16). That is, "you reveal who your actual Lord is by whom you choose to serve." Lipservice does not show who ones Lord is. Who you obey shows who your Lord is. The 3 young Hebrew men facing the fiery furnace did not give God lipservice in the privacy of their closet, but openly obeyed and acknowledged the only true God and the only true faith and obeyed Him.
Not only has he accepted his own son's perversion, but all perversions in the cluster of LGBT--and God's condemnation of them is all the same. God even declared, "The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God." (Deut. 22:5) and even "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind." (I Corinthians 6:9)
In addition to abominable pairings, he therefore endorses all forms of adultery and fornication and abusing the relationship and body God created.
Most people have no idea of what these perverts actually do, they simply watch perverse tv shows and movies that have desensitized them into laughing and smiling about people who act "silly" but which never portray their filth and perversion or immoral rage when they do not get their way. Most normal people don't want to know what these perverse people do... yet they are guilty of endorsing their behavior by turning a blind eye and giving them protection and rights for which God will judge the entire nation. The typical male homosexual is not monogamous, but each weekend will have sex with about a dozen different men in all sorts of unwholesome acts. During "gay pride" or other such perverse parades in San Francisco or elsewhere, not only do hundreds of perverts bicycle or walk around completely naked--in full view of children (HOW is that not a crime?)--but they also partake in open sexual acts in the streets and alleys and sidewalks in full public view... and the police stand around and do nothing. Yet the image the average person has of a homo is a nice dressing, neat and articulate man who is a good fashion, designer, house decorator, and cook with a funny attitude.
He waffles and equivocates when he refers to "different positions" on divorce and remarriage. The only reason there are different positions in this matter is because: 1. people don't understand Scripture (due to poor translation and misunderstanding false conclusions are drawn, because they don't understand Scripture in context) or 2. because they simply choose to disobey God in favor of what man wants. There is NO "wiggle room" in Scripture on the issue of gender perversion and fornication.]
But in the very next paragraph, he writes: ....
[Those who voted to be traditional? the very concept is incomprehensible. Clearly, they were in minority; they must leave "in shame." But why do they wait until June 8? Period of reconciliation and forgiveness...? THERE CAN BE NO reconciliation or forgiveness until people actually repent of their sin! If those moral Christians who are leaving "bless" those they leave, why then are they even leaving. To bless what God has cursed is to curse God.]
In two successive paragraphs the pastor refutes himself....
[What does that even mean? I guess he means that it used to be held that is not a sin to be perverse, only to practice the perversion; but now they will turn a blind eye to those who practice their perversion and accept them too...? What is their position on beastiality? Will that change too next time he is at the beach or the zoo?]
And his church did not unanimously “agree to disagree,” ....
[reductionistically binary - amazing how perverse minds make up all sorts of nonsensical words and phrases to avoid dealing with the real issue; it is amazing how INTOLERANT those are who cry for tolerance; and how PREJUDICED and DISCRIMINATING are those who cry against prejudice and discrimination. The bottom line: we (traditional, moral Christians) have no right to exist. That is Communism in a nutshell. It champions equality for all until they are in power, and then the liquidation begins.
The sinfulness is not in the act itself, but in the nature. Christ said that which goeth into a man does not defile a man (not talking about unclean food, but the pharisees obsessive-compulsive disorder from their guilty consciences because they refused to submit to God, so they devised their own endless hand-washing rituals for purification, which they claimed had to be done before eating)... but that which proceeded out of a man defileth a man... that is, a man's nature itself is either vile or not. A tree bearing apples does not make it an apple tree, an apple tree bears apples because it is an apple tree. Christ said sin begins in the heart, even if it does not translate itself into actions. It is not merely same sex "acts" that are sinful--but the very thoughts themselves.]
Interestingly, a recent point of agreement on this essential point ....
[again, what perverse phrases that seek to corrupt and destroy all that is valid. "Emerging" church... is that like an "emerging virus"...? (seems so). It is not a church if it is not Christian. It is a pagan temple; but not a church.]
“And the same goes for an individual congregation. ...
[Those who are intolerant pretend they are tolerant, until they have the numbers to reveal their own intolerance; the same goes for the evangelists of "equality;" communism progresses in the same manner. Only when they feel secure and have the numbers are they brave enough to tell the truth about what they really believe. Christ Himself said, as we saw, that you are either for Him or against Him; there is no middle ground, and Christ said, "I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." (Rev. 3:15,16)]
Once again, Tony Jones gets right to the essential point....
[This is confusing... are they all planning on showing up on Sunday, just to then formally leave? or have they already left and in reality the exodus has already taken place and they will be "no-shows" this coming Sunday...?]
Now, the Southern Baptist Convention also faces a moment of unavoidable decision. ....
[Amazingly, the baptist convention places higher authority in its own constitution than in the Bible... the unpardonable sin by their own confession is "not being in cooperation with" or "violating" THE CONVENTION... not God or His Word... and of course the Convention/Constitution can be changed in any point of doctrine, any time they are paid off or eventually when enough perverts are voted into positions of power. "Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." (Mark 7:7)]
There is nothing but heartbreak in this situation. ...
[I disagree. It is not heartbreak. These people were never Christians. This is merely the situation that brought the pimple to a head. Those who leave ought to rejoice that finally they are exercising spiritual discernment (for how could they have "fellowshipped" with the majority who choose perversion over God and how could they have sat under the "teaching" of and supported someone so reprobate...? There should be no remorse for Sodom and Gomorrah. Like Ninevah, they had the chance to repent; though God did not send a prophet to warn them because they were so far gone they were not worth saving. All that was to be done was to save out the few who could be saved. As I have long written, you don't leave a handful of good apples in a bushel with all the rotten and wormy ones, thinking they will be a good influence on them. It is a one way street. Likewise, you don't waste salt (as preservative for storage, not as a seasoning) on meat already spoiled rotten. "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us." (I John 2:19)]
I am confident that the Southern Baptist Convention will act in accordance with its own convictions...
[confident that they will act in accordance with his convictions... but that does not mean that their "convictions" are actually Biblical....? THAT remains to be seen.]