{"id":13167,"date":"2021-03-16T16:01:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13167"},"modified":"2021-03-16T16:01:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:01:13","slug":"the-moore-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13167","title":{"rendered":"The Moore fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you know? Beth Moore’s high-profile departure<\/a> from the Southern Baptist Convention is causing some of the folk in the pews to wonder about their denomination.<\/p>\n

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Most in our church don\u2019t think a lot about the SBC. Most are content with our collective mission and happy we give to it at a rate triple what we gave just two years ago.<\/p>\n

That all changed this past week after the departure of Beth Moore.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m fielding MANY more questions<\/span> than I used to, from many people who have never asked before and who I never thought would take a critical interest. In the past week I\u2019ve responded to emails, talked on the phone, and over private messages on social media with a noticeably larger number of folks about the SBC. I\u2019ve spent more time in the last week defending our affiliation than I have in the past 5 years combined.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think it’s sad that a conspicuous departure like Moore’s is what it takes to trigger second-thoughts out in the pews — I mean, what about all the loopy stuff the pastor says every week? — but whatever diminishes their malign influence is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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