INDIANAPOLIS – Georgia pastor Johnny M. Hunt was elected Tuesday to be the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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(Photo: The Christian Post)Pastor Johhny Hunt speaks at a press conference Tuesday after being announced as the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Hunt, a Native American who pastors the megachurch First Baptist Church of Woodstock, Ga., received nearly 53 percent of the vote of over 5,000 SBC messengers – representatives of local SBC churches – during SBC’s annual meeting and was enthusiastically received at a time of decline.
“My heart and passion is to see as many people as possible embrace Jesus Christ as their personal savior,” Hunt said at a press conference after his election was announced. He also expressed passion to have churches fully involved in spreading the Gospel.
After years of being asked to lead the largest Protestant denomination in the country, Hunt sensed a calling to accept the nomination this year. Hunt, who was among six nominees, succeeds the Rev. Frank Page who served two one-year terms.
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IHS
If I am so misguided as you claim that I am then why don't you go tell God about it in prayer and ask Him to straighten me out.
msnchris
Your heart is not right with God. All those things you accuse me of you are the most quilty of.
James 3:13-17
13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Star2,
You should follow your own advice in getting your heart right! You are all about drama and when you can't back up what you say, your feelings get hurt and you can't handle anyone disagreeing with you.
This is probably the only place where people are forced to hear what you have to say. Turn over a new leaf and READ ALL OF SCRIPTURE instead of just places where it agrees with what you think.
IHS
Get your heart right with God before you try to correct me.
msnchris70
Re: She is like many Fundamentalists who church shop to try and find a church that fits her own views,
How little you know about me. Below is my personal testimony in how I seek God in finding the Church He would have me attend and serve in. i shared it with another CP poster who didn't want to attend Church because the people didn't live their life in accordance with the Bible.
Ms CP Poster:
God's Word admonishes us to assemble ourselves together to worship God (Heb 10:25). God further says that He gives each believer gifts that are to be used to minister to the Church body and He places the believer in a Church according to His will (1 Cor 12:18). God's Word also says that if we pray according to His will He will hear us and will answer us(1 John 5:14-15).
You will not find a perfect Church. There will always be something about that Church you will not like. The people may not be as loving as you think they should be,you may have some doctrinal differences, the Pastor may not be the best preacher, or whatever. However, that should not keep you from going to Church.
My main problem with Churches is doctrine. It is very hard to find a Church whose doctrine aligns itself with what I believe scriptures teaches. However, I pray about where God would have me go. He leads me to a Church of His choosing. I am always happy in the Church God leads me to even though I would not have selected the Church in the natural (on my own). God finds a place of service for me according to the gifts He gives me. He also blesses me through the membership of that Church with the gifts He has given them.
Do you really want to go to Church and worship God? Is God's will important to you? If yes, then I encourage you to seek God as to where He would have you go. He will answer you. God has done many times and will do it again for me and I know He can and will do it for you.
Psalm 150:1 - "Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary..."
Hebrews 10:24-25:
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
1 Corinthians 12:18 - "But now hath God set the members evey one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him."
1 John 5:14-15
14nd this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Star2,
Maybe if you offered more than just your opinion it would be helpful. Grow up. You are going to report MSNCHRIS? It is much like you are going to tell 'MOMMY" on him.
Let's be honest. All you've done for the past two months that I've seen is be exactly what MSN described you as; belligerant, divisive, etc.
If you can't handle the heat get out of the kitchen as they say. I've read a lot of posts here and you are a bigot towards Catholicism. I and other evangelicals do not appreciate it in the least. I am not Catholic, nor care to be, but your treatment of a fellow Christian is horrible. Why don't you look in the mirror for your less than charitable treatment of Catholics on this website. Just because you say they are not Christians doesn't mean your opinion is worth anything. The Majority of all Protestants, from a lot of research done on this topic, would concur that Catholics are Christians. Some Protestants might even say they were the first Christians.
You basically are a bigot towards Catholics and Orthodox. You are probably against Lutherans, Methodists and Episcopalians too. So, in just one fell swoop you think 80% of Christianity isn't Christian. If you called a Mormon a non-Christian then everyone would agree with you. However, the way you handle your speech is not coming from a kind and loving heart from what I read.
If you can't offer anymore than your own personal interpretation, then move on. Offer some historical insights or maybe some quotes from highly regarded evangelicals to support your cause. Please stop being a Catholic hater!
Ok msnchris70, I am going to report you to CP. I have enough of your ungodly name calling.
Star2,
You don't like what I wrote or EvanCal or IHS. All three of us exposed you personally for being exactly what you are; belligerant, egomaniacle, divisive. We described you as having little ability to offer any critical analysis and that your own personal interpretation is your god.
You attack my faith when you come at the RCC. You attack the Church that Christ built, then I will defend her.
When will it hit you that you are ill-equiped to be in a conversation that goes beyond your own personal interpretation. I have a lot of respect for Protestants in general because they earnestly seek Truth. They bother to get an education, so they can be better equiped to teach the Gospel.
Fundamentalist like you reject education because then your house of cards will fall. You won't accept the coucil of your fellow Protestants who are Pastors, then why would I ever think you would listen to a Catholic who was a former Protestant Pastor. You reject obediance to the authority that God put over you and that is as plain as day from Scripture.
Star2,
Even your fellow Protestants think you are off base. When oh when are you going to get a reality check. Oh no, that reality check might blow your whole interpretation house of cards down so avoid reality at all costs!!!
Faith without reason and intellect equals Star2. Fanaticism with emotional outbursts with no education also equals Star2.
The only area I'll ever agree with Star2 is on most moral question; abortion, gay marriage, etc
. She is not willing to look at anything other than her own opinion. She is like many Fundamentalists who church shop to try and find a church that fits her own views, rather than finding a church that has the correct views and making sure that she is not in error.
She mentioned a lot of things above that would sure get a lot of disagreement by Lutherans, Methodists and Anglicans and probably a few Presbyterians too in some areas.
IHS
Your advice is as foolish as msnchris70 and EvanCal.
If you can't see that praying to dead saints is not scriptual, that praying the rosary is not scriptual, that Mary is the Queen of heaven is not scriptual,giving the title of Holy Father to the Pope is blasphemous, saying that Jesus is actually bodily in the Eucharist is not scriptual, that infantile baptism is not scriptual, that having your priest slap you on the face and say receive ye the Holy Ghost is not scriptual, that you have no authority to be a pastor if you don't have the laying on of the hands by the suppose Apostolic succession that the RCC claims to have is not scriptual, that there is a puratory you most likely will go to to be purged of your sins you didn't get forgiven for before you died is not scriptual, then you do not understand the Word of God. You will most likely fall for the end time Apostate Church and be forever damned if God doesn't rescue out of that abominable Church.
I would advise you to go to God and find out from Him what is truth and what is error and whether you should even stay in that seminary that teaches you falsehood.
Star2,
I'm happy for you that you go by the WORD OF GOD in the Bible. For me, the Bible is the only Truth I follow. If a church has a belief outside of Scripture, then it should be tested to see if it denies or contradicts Scripture within the context. If it denies Scripture or contradicts it, taking all of Scripture into account(Old & New), then it should be rejected.
I've have studied the early church, Catholicism and Orthdox. I have yet to find one doctrine that denies that Christ is Lord, that Christ is our only mediator, that we are saved only through Jesus, that by Grace we will be saved and that we worship a triune God and the substitutionary atonement Christ gained for us by His merit. Not one Catholic belief negates or contradicts these main core beliefs of Christianity. I'm sorry, but I actually went through every doctrine in trying to prove Catholicism was not only an apostate and anti-Christ religion but that it was just a complete joke of a faith. I was proved wrong!
I am not a Catholic and nor to I care to be one, but I encourage you not to act like the Devil in throwing out scripture that is manipulated towards your uncharitable opinion of Catholicism. You know the Devil manipulated Scripture too.
In my few years at Seminary I have run into people like you. Now, I don't know if you are female or male but I would guess you are a woman or if you are a man then I would guess you really enjoy drama. Stop the drama and your emotional use of Scripture and lean not on your own understanding but seek the wisdom of the Scriptures through the Holy Spirit. You lack logic and critical method for analysis, and you overcompensate by being dramatic.
I would agree with past posts of others. Seek help and also get an education. It helped soften my approach and also gave me a new perspective. If your truth is really truth, then it can stand the test of Scripture without subjectivism.
IHS
What I said to msnchris70 on a another article, I say to you:
The Word of God is my standard for what truth is (John 17:17). I measure what people say up against what the Word of God says. If the teaching/practice/opinion of man does not align itself with the Word of God I reject it.
The teachings and practices of the RCC are not scriptual. Therefore, I reject them.
I will earnestly contend for the faith that has been delivered to me by God (Jude 3).
I seek God for the understanding of His Word (John 14:26, John 16:13). He teaches me His truths or gives me understanding of His Word in many different ways. Being taught by God through the Holy Ghost was not limited to the Apostles. The Apostle John told the believers in his first epistle that they did not need any man to teach them but that as the anointing (Holy Ghost) taught them so shall they abide.(1 John 2:27). No human being is going to deny me my right as a child of God to be taught by God through the Holy Ghost in Jesus' name. As God has taught me so shall I abide.
IHS, you have been deceived. Ask God to help you know what is truth and what is error.
(I flagged myself to delete as few statements.)
Star two,
I am a seminarian student who is hoping to be a Pastor someday. What I've learned at seminary has changed many pre-conceived and mischaracterizations of the Catholic Church, Orthodox and other Protestants too. Without an objective search for Truth, your comments are solely based on subjectivism without any context, historical analysis or any other academic way to discern Truth. Saying you go by the Holy Spirit doesn't prove the Holy Spirit is guiding you any less than He guides others, so you must take a further approach to support your beliefs and this is what you won't do because your scriptural interpretation will probably fall apart.
You see, I do believe Christ is the only Truth we need. So, by studying everthing we can and with the help of the Holy Spirit guiding us in that study we can come closer to the actual truth, rather than our own subjective view based on little more than emotional opinion.
As a fellow Christian, I would ask you to either offer a critical approach to Scripture or please stop giving us all your opinion as the paramount truth making a mockery of Scripture.
I recently thought as you did that Catholics were apostate as of only a short time ago. I was wrong for many reasons, but I was willing to search truth objectively rather than getting any bias involved. My seminary has a group of schools all from different Christian Traditions, and now that I know what they REALLY believe as opposed to what I thought they believed, I stand corrected. I stand corrected because of TRUTH, because TRUTH IS CHRIST.
Peace Star two.
msnchris70
'judgments against me' should read 'judgements of me'
msnchris70
I lump all Orthodox Churches (Greek, Eastern, Russian, etc) and Coptics in with the RCC.