[Capstone Report] Pastor James Pittman of New Hope Community Church of Palatine, Illinois announced on YouTube his intention to leave the Southern Baptist Convention over the leadership of J.D. Greear on issues of LGBTQ rights. Pittman originally from New Orleans, studied at Howard University (Biology) and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.Div.). You can learn more … Read more
While repeating the word ‘gospel’ enough to remove all meaning from the word’s actual definitional usage, almost as a slogan or catch-all term to preemptively pacify or confuse critics (a common strategy among progressives), Greear gave his imagination for the Southern Baptist Convention’s future. Speaking to the leftist political organization, which is partnered with George … Read more
Yesterday, Pulpit & Pen published an article entitled “Church Leaves SBC Over Beth Moore, JD Greear, and Doctrinal Errors” in which we reported that the First Baptist Church of Victoria, Missouri had decided to leave the Southern Baptist Convention after over fifty years of membership. In a letter addressed to local, state, and national SBC … Read more
We are proud of each and every church that leaves the Southern Baptist Convention. Pulpit & Pen received a copy of this letter, sent to the Missouri Baptist Convention, the Jefferson Baptist Association, and the Southern Baptist Convention from the First Baptist Church of Victoria, Missouri. The church, FBC Victoria, has been a member of … Read more
JD Greear recently RT’d the political views of a leftist lesbian writer. The lesbian aspires to teach men how to preach, finds “Gospel themes” in pornography, and promotes Democratic talking points as though they were Gospel-centered ideas. Greear, the “frat boy president” of the SBC, seems to suffer from a catastrophic lack of discernment. Pulpit … Read more
SBC President, JD Greear, is advertising a new “fasting guide” by live-tweeting their fasting to the entire world. Greear, who has become adept at virtue signaling while president of the nation’s largest denomination, had someone snap a pic of his church staff beginning their fast by prayer, and then tweeted it out to the world. … Read more
In an interview with the Christian Post promoting his new book, J. D. Greear appeared to offer a way for Christians to vote for a Democratic presidentical candidate in 2020. The president of the Southern Baptist Convention called on evangelical Christians to be willing to critique any candidate they support—even when they vote for the … Read more
In a video posted at The Social Gospel Coalition, SBC President, JD Greear, argued that the belief of some that Christians and Muslims worship the same God ‘has merit.’ He likened Muslims worshipping Allah with Jews worshipping Yahweh, and claimed that it could be looked at the same way. After explaining explicitly (for the record) … Read more
In a recent episode of Ask Me Anything, a regular featured segment on Greear’s personal website, he was asked to name those who have most influenced his ministry. The list of names is quite telling, as he admits that Tim Keller, Mark Driscoll, and Rob Bell were instrumental in the early formation of his theology. Founding member of The Gospel Coalition and signer … Read more
For too many years Southern Baptists have viewed Calvinism and Traditionalism as the division in our Convention. That isn’t what divides Southern Baptists. What divides Southern Baptists are those who hold to an orthodox understanding of the Gospel as opposed to progressives who promote ethnic Gnosticism and the “tearing down of all hierarchy” to empower … Read more
JD Greear, the President of the Southern Baptist Convention…is certainly awful in many ways. Websites like Pulpit & Pen regularly report the problematic statements and actions of high-profile Christian leaders and influencers like Greear. I won’t speak for other writers but personally I am disturbed at the state of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) as … Read more
This past Sunday on January 27, 2019 Pastor, JD Greear of Summit Life Church, preached a sermon entitled How the Fall Affects Us All. In this hour and a half sermon, Pastor Greear addresses the topic of Homosexuality and Same-Sex Attraction (SSA). This sermon is part of his series, The Book of Romans. In this … Read more
[OneNewsNow] The president of the Southern Baptist Convention says “white privilege” exists – and that the job of Christians is to spread the privilege to those who have less. A Christian apologist, though, is taking issue with those comments. In a recent podcast titled “Is white privilege real?,” Pastor J.D. Greear defines privilege as “a kind of … Read more
It’s no wonder that the President of the Southern Baptist Convention is a Social Justice Warrior when he mishandles a verse that many catechized children know from their youth, especially as it pertains to justice. JD Greear, the pastor of Summit Church in Durham, North Carolina, recently botched his exposition of Micah 6:8 so badly … Read more
Recently, JD Greear posted a video on FB seemingly in an attempt to provide the SBC with some leadership and direction. Regrettably, the kind of leadership and direction JD offered, well, it isn’t real leadership and as for the direction, I couldn’t disagree more. That is not to say that I don’t respect JD Greear. … Read more
