Updated Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Wants a refund

I have just finished reading, "A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change." This is a great idea. I see it working as well as the boycott on Disney ... oh wait, that didn't work.

Is this what the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) leaders are doing with their time, not to mention our Cooperative Program money? Why was a web site created for this declaration that you "do not regard ... as a complete declaration of these issues." If this is how the SBC plans to spend money in the future, then I would like a refund. The SBC is telling its people how to act environmentally moral. It's acting more like the United States government than the body of Christ.

So the SBC is going to solve weather problems now. Are LifeWay stores going to start selling carbon credits? For some unknown reason, the SBC has given in to the world and the liberal left because we "may be seen by the world as uncaring, reckless, and ill-informed." How dare we stand out from the world! Somebody call Jimmy Carter, apologize and ask him to come back.

In the Great Commission, Jesus said we are to "go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you." He said nothing about stopping weather patterns that are so far over our head we'll never understand. You are neither weathermen nor scientists; you are theologians and preachers. Stick to what God has called you to do: bringing others to His saving knowledge.

Chance Parish

Eupora, Miss

(EDITOR'S NOTE - The environmental declaration is the effort of an individual and not an SBC funded project.)