Mike Corley responds to the Southern Baptist Convention’s declaration “A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change”…

It was shocking to me to read of an initiative led by prominent Southern Baptists to take what is popularly know as the green route. Jonathan Merritt, national spokesperson for the Southern Baptist Environment and Climate Initiative, and son of former SBC president James Merritt, is leading the way to encourage more Southern Baptist to be more engaging on environmental issues…

Mike Corley describes his SBC roots as a licensed and ordained Southern Baptist minister who served as a pastor and evangelist. Corley expressed his love and gratitude for the SBC, but left the denomination because of theological concerns as he became more committed to reform theology.

Corley questions why this environmental move has taken place in the SBC when there are greater doctrinal issues that threaten the SBC.  Corley sites the alarming trends in the SBC towards: 

• hoop jump evangelism
• hyper-Arminianism
• the tremendous influence of Rick Warren and the Purpose Driven Life 

Of  Rick Warren’s teflon status within the SBC, Corley writes:

I have described Warren as the “golden boy of the SBC’ as he is seemingly untouchable within the denomination and whose doctrine and practices are seldom ever questioned by many leaders in the Convention.

Listen to Mike discuss this issue in detail on The Mike Corley Program.

See related articles: SBC: Biblical Duty To Stop Climate Change?, Why I’m A Recovering Southern Baptist

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