Georgia pastor Paul Baxley was elected executive coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) in Jan 2019. Baxley was the first non-Texan to lead the 1,800-church network.
He has subsequently come out in favor of gay missionaries and gay and female ministers. He is described by his colleagues as a "....deeply committed Christian and a lifelong Baptist,”
"In a sermon last October about whether God is calling gay and lesbian Christians into ordained ministry, Baxley described reconnecting with a member of the youth group he led early in his ministry who eventually
became a minister and came out as gay.
“There is clear evidence, at least to me, of the work of the Holy Spirit in his life and obvious signs that the Holy Spirit is working through him in the lives of others, and I am now one of those people whom the Spirit has blessed, strengthened and challenged through his courageous faithfulness and his relentless love for the people of God,” Baxley said. “If God gave him the same gifts and calling that God gave me, who am I that I could hinder God?” [
source]
Baxterwants women in positions of leadership in the church. He sees this as desirable:
“And though
we have been saying since our founding that we are fully committed to the proposition that God calls women as well as men
to all forms of leadership in the church, we have new evidence that we have not arrived yet,” Baxley said. “It grieves me that 30 years into our life, I still have to say we have not arrived yet.”
“Now the good news is, as we’re crossing over, more and more women are coming out of our theological schools, serving our congregations with gifts and grace. But the moment of truth is coming….Are we going to stand up and live into what we’ve been saying from the beginning and call gifted women to pastor our congregations and hold places of leadership in our Fellowship? It is time to cross over.” [
source]
(No reference to the bible in any of this. So a veritable false prophet in sheep's clothing.)
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Now Paul Baxter has entered the political arena as an
endorser of
Christians Against Christian Nationalism campaign which espouses assinine and godless positions as:
Government should not prefer one religion over another or religion over nonreligion.
Baxter says:
"The Church of Jesus Christ exists by the power that parted the Red Sea and raised Jesus from the dead, and that power and authority is still at work within us and among us even as empires rise and fall. To suggest that the church needs the protection of the state in order to flourish and thrive is idolatrous.” [
source]
This statement flies in the face of the evidence. Christians now make up approximately 5% of the Middle Eastern population, down from 20% in the early 20th century, where Christians have experienced “forms of persecution ranging from routine discrimination in education, employment and social life up to genocidal attacks against Christian communities." [
source]
During the Stalinist era, between 1927 and 1940, the number of Orthodox churches in the Russian Republic fell from 29,584 to fewer than 500. The watershed year was 1929, when Soviet policy put much new legislation in place that formed the basis for the harsh anti-religious persecution in the 1930s. [
source]
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I conclude Baxter is a dangerous and deluded false prophet.
