{"id":7001,"date":"2017-11-04T06:39:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T10:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7001"},"modified":"2017-11-04T06:39:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T10:39:19","slug":"feel-the-love-love-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7001","title":{"rendered":"Feel the love-love-love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennessee Baptists have <a href=\"https:\/\/baptistnews.com\/article\/tennessee-baptists-unfriend-church-female-pastor\/#.Wf2UTzBryUl\" target=\"_blank\">overturned the welcome mat<\/a> for a Baptist church which called a female pastor.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A 15-member committee tasked with credentialing messengers for the upcoming annual gathering of the statewide Southern Baptist Convention affiliate agreed Oct. 18 that a church with a woman serving as senior pastor does not fit the definition of a \u201ccooperating church\u201d as defined by convention bylaws.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is in essence the state convention saying that we are no longer welcome,\u201d she said in her Sunday morning sermon. \u201cThey have taken this action because our congregation has a female senior pastor. To these institutions, our commitment to equal treatment of women and men in the church is the sum of what makes us \u2018us.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well &#8212; ho-hum.  This has happened so often in the past that it isn&#8217;t believable that the church didn&#8217;t know what would happen when they hired a woman to preach.  Personally, I think there is probably a lot to like about people who aren&#8217;t morally fit to belong to a club that includes Franklin Graham, Robert Jeffress, Perry Noble, Jerry Falwell, Jr., Albert the Pious &#8230; I could probably sit in that church without feeling that I had soiled myself by the bald fact of being there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennessee Baptists have overturned the welcome mat for a Baptist church which called a female pastor. A 15-member committee tasked with credentialing messengers for the upcoming annual gathering of the statewide Southern Baptist Convention affiliate agreed Oct. 18 that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7001\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7002,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001\/revisions\/7002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}