Patterson to Pastors: Don't Talk to the Press, They Can't Possibly Get it Right in the "World of Unbelief"

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEeWx0Z4aA0-c1fJSpuxK1cnDUFCElt3AGovwfkjPwOovsURTjV5vHLsaD2NIY-_dsNLzp71PxwQqb0Gv62lrJ7neGSrK7E5a4t1RHgNH1JqXk-04O92et3IyLvJk5nREK_om7jGCnHFwg/s1600/Patterson-Oct13.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEeWx0Z4aA0-c1fJSpuxK1cnDUFCElt3AGovwfkjPwOovsURTjV5vHLsaD2NIY-_dsNLzp71PxwQqb0Gv62lrJ7neGSrK7E5a4t1RHgNH1JqXk-04O92et3IyLvJk5nREK_om7jGCnHFwg/s320/Patterson-Oct13.png" width="291" /></a></div>More lunacy coming from leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention. <a href="http://www.abpnews.com/faith/theology/item/8941-patterson-don-t-take-church-matters-to-press#.UmEexhCjQYI" target="_blank">As Bob Allen reports today in the Associated Baptist Press</a>, Paige Patterson told the soon-to-be men of God at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in chapel this week:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>“This also means that you don’t take matters to the press. What goes on in the church of God doesn’t go to the press...I’m not going to talk to the press about things that are matters internal to the church of the Living God. It is none of their business. <u><span style="color: red;">And they can’t possibly get it right, and they don’t get it right, so why do you take it to the world of unbelief</span></u>? Whether that be the court, whether that be the press? 'Well there’s just no other way to handle it.’ Yes there is. Commit it to the Lord God Almighty.” </b></i></span></div><br />I hope the students at SWBTS can see just how stupid this is. Telling pastors that they should not talk to members of the press because they are "the world of unbelief".<br /><br />First of all, why the presumption that the press "can't possibly get it right". What is "it"? He must mean that they can't accurately report truth or facts about something that happens in a church that might be of interest to the public. If the press can't get it right because they are "the world of unbelief", and that pastors should "commit it to the Lord God Almighty", then why does that JUST work in matters of the press? Why not in medicine? Why not just commit your health to "the Lord God Almighty"? Why go to a doctor, after all he or she operates in the "world of unbelief".<br /><br />This is just another example of how pastors in the SBC are being trained to think they are some special anointed class of Christian that answers to absolutely no one but God himself. <br /><br />And another reason why religious institutions will eventually lose their tax-exempt status. They don't want to participate in the basic rules of right in our society - like the press being a force to keep large institutions in check. Pastors and their churches are above answering to the local reporter apparently, they are "the church of the living God" and don't answer to anyone in the press.<br /><br />Not to worry, the common folk will get the word out about misbehaving pastors and idiotic theology and doctrine via blogs, and the common folk in churches will continue to talk to the press when it is necessary.<br /><br />And pastors, whatever you do, don't talk to recalcitrant bloggers. And don't go to those doctors who use science and medicine to heal people - they are in the "world of unbelief". Just trust the Lord God Almighty to heal you.

Patterson to Pastors: Don't Talk to the Press, They Can't Possibly Get it Right in the "World of Unbelief"

More lunacy coming from leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention. As Bob Allen reports today in the Associated Baptist Press, Paige Patterson told the soon-to-be men of God at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in chapel this week:“This…

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