I read in the August 3 issue a letter from a pastor in our
state praising the past moderator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
I read in the August 3 issue a letter from a pastor in our
state praising the past moderator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. While,
as the letter stated, the past moderator may have served the CBF with grace,
dignity, and humor, she also presided over the approval of a CBF budget for
the coming year that includes money for the “Baptist Peace Fellowship.”
This group openly supports homosexuals, including promoting ordaining homosexual
ministers and performing unions between homosexuals as marriage. An article
in the July 20, 2000 “Baptist Message” chronicled this action.
Is this an example of interpreting the Bible in the light
of Jesus? If it is, then the moderates just lost that argument. I call on the
CBF and its past moderator to take a biblical stand against the Baptist Peace
Fellowship, and anyone who distorts Scripture concerning homosexuality. Can
you imagine the Southern Baptist Convention supporting such a group? The differences
between the SBC and the CBF continue to be revealed. Leviticus 18:22 commands
us, “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an
abomination.” What part of that do you not understand?
Rick Henson, Pastor
First Baptist Church
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