Southern Baptist’s right-wing faction warn against women preachers, social justice, CRT – By Michelle Boorstein (Washington Post) / June 13, 2022
“You don’t advance the kingdom of God by lining up with the kingdom of Satan.”
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Southern Baptists filled a cavernous hotel ballroom Sunday to hear a warning: Don’t cooperate or compromise with the devil. And this week, as their huge denomination gathers for its annual meeting and to elect a new president, the urgent warning was aimed at their fellow Southern Baptists.
“You don’t advance the kingdom of God by lining up with the kingdom of Satan,” John MacArthur, a dean of conservative evangelical preaching, told the audience, referring to topics from the role of women to addressing racism. “You will never advance the kingdom of God by being popular with the world. If you think you will, you’re doing the devil’s work. How can you negotiate with people who hate Christ, hate God, hate the Bible and hate the gospel?”
The host of the part-prayer gathering, part-campaign rally on the first night of the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting was the Conservative Baptist Network (CBN), an upstart group that some observers have compared with the MAGA wing of the Republican Party. The network was formed two years ago in response to the issues of institutional racism and sexual abuse as priorities in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
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