RE: Sad for Texas Baptists
In response to David Currie’s Voices article, Sad for Texas Baptists, I disagree with the premise of his argument. The hermeneutical gymnastics undertaken by the generation of one’s great-grandfather to justify devaluing a people group to the point of making them property is not the same as refusing to do flips to appease the culture. The gymnasts in this ongoing culture war are those who are trying to convince us that the plain teaching of Scripture is anything but.
So, to Mr. Currie’s point, if the cost of widening the Texas Baptist tent comes at the expense of acceptance of a liberal theology so liberal that it balks at the established order set forth by our Creator. then it’s time to decide that the tent stakes move no further or admit the tent is not for revival but the circus and forget staking the tent down at all.
The Texas Baptist tent is either a tabernacle where we meet our One God in three persons who has made clear his perfect will on human sexuality and relationships, or we admit we want it to be large enough to fit three rings instead, and we call in the clowns.
Truth divides, and right truth divides rightly. I cannot perceive the hearts of men as Mr. Currie evidently can, but I know that for most of us, we don’t fear or hate the LGBTQ+ community. We love God, and so we love them enough to say that to enter into his tent, one must love him more than one’s sin.
To mix analogies, the gardener rips and keeps out weeds from the garden, not because of hatred of weeds, but out of love for the roses. We, too, must choose what grows or goes.
Nathan Feinberg, pastor
Adamsville Baptist Church, Lampasas
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