{"id":1652,"date":"2009-11-17T21:22:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T04:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strivetoenter.com\/wim\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2017-06-16T20:03:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T03:03:58","slug":"church-led-by-woman-pastor-is-forced-out-of-gbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/2009\/11\/17\/church-led-by-woman-pastor-is-forced-out-of-gbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Church led by woman pastor forced out of Georgia Baptist Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1654\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/2009\/11\/17\/church-led-by-woman-pastor-is-forced-out-of-gbc\/julie-pennington-russell31\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/julie-pennington-russell31.jpg?fit=550%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"550,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Julie Pennington-Russell on Women in Ministry by Cheryl Schatz\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/julie-pennington-russell31.jpg?fit=300%2C78&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/julie-pennington-russell31.jpg?fit=550%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1654\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/julie-pennington-russell31.jpg?resize=550%2C144\" alt=\"Julie Pennington-Russell on Women in Ministry by Cheryl Schatz\" width=\"550\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/julie-pennington-russell31.jpg?w=550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/julie-pennington-russell31.jpg?resize=300%2C78&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">On November 11, 2009, the Georgia Baptist Convention adopted a policy that ended its 148-year relationship with\u00a0First Baptist Church of Decatur, Georgia. \u00a0According to the <strong><a title=\"Georgia Baptists cut ties with church led by woman pastor on Associated Baptists News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abpnews.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=4575&amp;Itemid=53\">Associated Baptist News<\/a><\/strong>,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Pastor Julie Pennington-Russell read a letter at the end of both worship services Nov. 15 from Robert White, executive director of the 1.3 million-member state convention. It informed her that messengers to the group&#8217;s recent annual meeting took action to declare them &#8220;not a cooperating church,&#8221; because &#8220;a woman is serving as senior pastor.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Wade Burleson<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The policy that declared the First Baptist Church in Decatur as officially disfellowshipped, resulted from a strict enforcement of the 2000 Baptist Faith &amp; Message (BFM 2000) which made the issues of women pastors as a cause for dividing the church. \u00a0No longer is <\/span>there<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> room for personal conscience as far as women leaders in the church. \u00a0<strong><a title=\"Wade Burleson, Baptist Faith and Message Creed or Club?\" href=\"http:\/\/kerussocharis.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/2000-bfm-confession-creed-or-club.html\">Wade Burleson<\/a><\/strong> writes that it is dangerous thinking to make the Baptist Faith &amp; Message tier 1 primary doctrine so that &#8220;if a Southern Baptist expresses any disagreement with any portion of the BFM 2000, he is not a true Southern Baptist and is not worthy of leadership in the SBC. &#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Burleson goes on to explain why this thinking is so dangerous.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It is more &#8216;cultic&#8217; than it is Baptist. If a Southern Baptist cannot point out where he\/she believes the BFM 2000 is in contradiction with Scripture we are in trouble. In fact, if a Southern Baptist voices a disagreement with some of the interpretations of tertiary doctrines found within the BFM 2000, and we then begin to &#8216;question&#8217; that Southern Baptist&#8217;s conservative credentials, we have prostituted our heritage as Baptists. Why? We will have placed ourselves in the very bizarre place of having people in the SBC being called &#8216;liberal&#8217; when they champion their belief of the authority of the Bible over a man-made confession. Think about it &#8212; in 2007 it is possible for Southern Baptists to call &#8216;a liberal&#8217; someone within the convention whose conscience is bound to the Word of God, and not the BFM 2000!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Burleson warned that the BFM 2000 used as a tool to\u00a0force creedal interpretations of secondary doctrines beyond the intention of the BFM 2000 could tear about the Southern Baptist Convention. \u00a0Burleson writes:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Even worse, we now have people in the SBC who are attempting to move the entire convention to an acceptance of interpretations of tertiary doctrines that go far BEYOND those contained in the BFM 2000. Those who are demanding conformity to policies and guidelines that are based upon specific interpretations of tertiary doctrines, without giving room for disagreement, will ultimately destroy our cooperating convention.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The ABP reports Julie Pennington-Russell&#8217;s reaction to the disfellowshipping of her church.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;Obviously the severing of relationship after so many years is unfortunate and gives the world-at-large another reason to conclude that Baptists care more about putting people out than gathering them in,&#8221; Pennington-Russell said in an e-mail Nov. 16. &#8220;At the same time, I don&#8217;t think this came as a surprise to many in our congregation and to be honest, having a Southern Baptist affiliation has not been especially helpful when it comes to connecting with our largely unchurched community.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Southern Baptist Convention amended their doctrinal statement in 2000 to include the following statement about women pastors:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Dr. Sheri Klouda<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Some who have taken this statement as a means to break fellowship with fellow Christians and sister Churches have also seen fit to remove women from teaching in Bible Colleges. \u00a0Apparently, women&#8217;s gifts are not welcome in the area of Biblical languages either as the policy of restricting women&#8217;s gifts spreads to the seminaries and beyond. \u00a0<strong><a title=\"Wade Burleson's blog on Sheri Klouda and gender discrimination\" href=\"http:\/\/kerussocharis.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/sheri-klouda-gender-discrimination_17.html\">Dr. Sheri Klouda<\/a><\/strong> found out that her credentials in Hebrew and her\u00a0exemplary\u00a0work as a teacher\u00a0were not enough to stop her from being removed from Southwestern Theological Seminary for being a woman teacher. \u00a0In a turn-about after Paige Patterson became president of Southwestern, the issue of women teachers was made a doctrinal issue even though the BFM 2000 did not forbid women from teaching nor was Southwestern Seminary considered a Church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1657\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/2009\/11\/17\/church-led-by-woman-pastor-is-forced-out-of-gbc\/paige-patterson-profile\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/paige-patterson-profile.jpg?fit=289%2C281&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"289,281\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Paige Patterson Profile on Women in Ministry by Cheryl Schatz\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/paige-patterson-profile.jpg?fit=289%2C281&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/paige-patterson-profile.jpg?fit=289%2C281&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1657\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mmoutreach.org\/wim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/paige-patterson-profile.jpg?resize=289%2C281\" alt=\"Paige Patterson Profile on Women in Ministry by Cheryl Schatz\" width=\"289\" height=\"281\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Paige Patterson<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><a title=\"Paige Patterson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.paigepatterson.info\/\">Paige Patterson<\/a><\/strong> apparently is one who believes that the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 is far too weak to be effective on the issue of women in ministry. \u00a0Recently <strong><a title=\"Southwestern Theological Seminary adopts policy of male headship\" href=\"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/2009\/10\/28\/southwestern-asserts-male-headship\/\">he adopted a new policy<\/a><\/strong><strong><a title=\"Southwestern Theological Seminary adopts policy of male headship\" href=\"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/2009\/10\/28\/southwestern-asserts-male-headship\/\">y<\/a><\/strong> at Southwestern Theological Seminary making the <strong><a title=\"Danver's statement\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danvers_Statement\">Danver&#8217;s statemen<\/a><\/strong><strong><a title=\"Danver's statement\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danvers_Statement\">t<\/a><\/strong> mandatory in the hiring and evaluation processes of the seminary. \u00a0It appears that women need no longer apply for teaching jobs at Southwestern unless they are willing to teach cooking, cleaning, sewing or dining etiquette.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Is the Holy Spirit no longer allowed to do His work in churches, seminaries, homes, and marriages? \u00a0 Apparently, there is a groundswell movement to restrict women to certain &#8220;roles&#8221;, and there is even <strong><a title=\"Andreas Kostenberger on women's roles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblicalstudies.org.uk\/pdf\/roles_kostenberger.pdf\">a teaching<\/a><\/strong> that unless women stay in their God-ordained &#8220;roles&#8221; as wives and mothers and refrain from teaching men, God will remove His hand of protection from them and allow them to be deceived by Satan.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Are Women Open to Deception?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Did God really create a threat that He will open women up to deception if they don&#8217;t accept that there is a God-ordained <strong><a title=\"CBMW\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbmw.org\/\">office in the church<\/a><\/strong> that can make pope-like decisions on what a woman is or isn&#8217;t allowed to do that will qualify as staying within her &#8220;role&#8221;? \u00a0CBMW has made a black, white and grey list of things that may or may not be restricted to a woman. \u00a0It appeared necessary to them since no such list could be found in the Bible. \u00a0The one thing that we do find in the Scriptures regarding spiritual gifts and the authorized use of these gifts is found in 1 Peter 4:10, 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">1 Peter 4:10 \u00a0As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">1 Peter4:11 \u00a0Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Holy Spirit who gifts us as members of the church also authorizes our use of the gifts for the common good of the body of Christ. What God has authorized and gifted let no man call unnecessary or restricted from common use \u00a0(1 Cor. 12:21).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It is time to wake up and see what is happening to the body of Christ. \u00a0 When men interpret the Scriptures out of its context in order to restrict God&#8217;s Holy Spirit when He is working within women, it is time to speak up. \u00a0It is not necessary to divide over this issue or to disfellowship Christians and churches for allowing the Holy Spirit to use godly Christian women in the gifts and authority to use those gifts that He has given them. \u00a0If we fight against our sisters in Christ, we are fighting the Holy Spirit and grieving Him. \u00a0We are not restricting our sisters in Christ half as much as we are restricting the Holy Spirit who desires to work in and through these women.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 11, 2009, the Georgia Baptist Convention adopted a policy that ended its 148-year relationship with\u00a0First Baptist Church of Decatur, Georgia. \u00a0According to the Associated Baptist News, Pastor Julie Pennington-Russell read a letter at the end of both worship services Nov. 15 from Robert White, executive director of the 1.3 million-member state convention. 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