Dr. Russell Moore Responds To Question at SBC16

your question yes my name is John Wofford I pastor R Morrell Baptist Church in Armour L Arkansas and have a question for dr. Moore I would like to know how in the world someone within the Southern Baptist Convention can support the defending of rights for Muslims to construct mosque in the United States when these people threaten our very way of existence as Christians and Americans they are murdering Christians beheading Christians imprisoning Christians all over the world do you actually believe that if Jesus Christ were here today that he would support this and that he would stand up and say well let us protect the rights of those Bell worshippers to erect temples to bail do you believe that dr. Moore you know sometimes we have to deal with questions that are really complicated and we have to spend a lot of time thinking them through and and and not sure exactly what the final result was going to be sometimes we have really hard decisions to make this isn't one of those things what it means to be a Baptist is to support soul freedom for everybody and brothers and sisters when you have a government that says we can decide whether or not a house of worship can be constructed based upon the theological beliefs of that house of worship then there are going to be Southern Baptist churches in San Francisco and New York and throughout this country who are not going to be able to build and the bigger issue though is not one of self-interest the bigger issue is the fact that we have been called to the gospel of Jesus Christ a government that has the power to outlaw people from assembling together and saying what they believe that does not turn people into Christians that turns people into pretend Christians and it sends them straight to hell the answer to Islam is not government power the answer is the gospel of Jesus Christ and the new birth that comes from that thank you dr. Moore

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Published: Wed Jun 15 2016

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[u/superlewis]

Moore's answer is why I sometimes want to join the SBC. The pastor's question is why I still don't.

[u/MilesBeyond250]

It bothers me that this is even a question. Individual soul liberty is one of the defining distinctives of the Baptist tradition. In the 17th century Baptists were petitioning the king of England to give refuge and provide place of worship for Muslim migrants. Moore's answer is fantastic. Frankly I would have gone one step further: To call yourself a Baptist and seek to deny Muslims the right to build mosques is like calling yourself a Baptist and denying credobaptism. It's like calling yourself a Pentecostal and affirming cessationism. It's like calling yourself a Catholic and denying the spiritual authority of the Vatican and the Pope. That last one's actually a good analogy: These people who are opposed to the right of Muslims, or people of any other creed, to worship unmolested by government or the church, are essentially the Baptist version of sedevacantists.

[u/5upralapsarian]

R.C. Sproul Jr.'s succinct response is also good.

[u/srm038]

In my view, I want them to build the biggest and best and most beautiful mosques they possibly can. Why? Because sooner or later, those will be churches. So spare no expense!

[u/superlewis]

Also, since when is Jere Burns a moderator in the SBC?

[u/superlewis]

I just keep watching this because I love it so much. Just watch the magnificently bearded man behind the questioner noping the question.

[u/Frankfusion]

Are any of you part of the Pulpit Bunker? JD Hall is an interesting guy, but sometimes his crowd just gets mad at the wrong things. This is posted on their page as "Russel Moore Mosque Builder" or some other nonsense.