The Joshua Convergence

Recently, I wrote a post entitled "A Fundamentalist Attack on Wade Burleson." In this post, I listed quotes from men who had explicitly or implicitly referred to Burleson as a "liberal." Dr. Bradley Reynolds of SEBTS was included in this group.

Now, Dr. Bradley Reynolds is heading up a meeting of young SBC leaders. This "annual meeting" known as the "Joshua Convergence" will be held today and tomorrow in Winter Park, Florida.

Here are a few snippets taken from the "Joshua Convergence" website.

The purpose of The Joshua Convergence is to give a voice to younger leaders across the Southern Baptist Convention who are strongly committed to biblical inerrancy, who support the goals and leadership of the conservative resurgence, and who unashamedly embrace biblical standards of separation and morality, in order that the Southern Baptist Convention might continue to hold to the authority, inerrancy, and sufficiency of Scripture in the future and that the nations might be transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ.

An anonymous blogger known only as SWBTS Underground had this to say about the upcoming Joshua Convergence get-together...

I want everyone paying attention. No one has been inactive in this battle over leadership and authority in the SBC. It is about to flesh out into in all-out war. It is going to be a rehash of the Conservative Resurgence, but with one key distinction- both sides feel like they are taking the true conservative position, both sides feel God is on their side, and both sides now have vendettas and past wounds to avenge. This is a scary time in the SBC.

There is going to come a day soon when you will assuredly be called to voice your approval and support to one side or the other, whether it be in your church, your school, or your job.

As the old hymn goes - Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war! It's Rally The Troops time. Patterson's minions are putting on their war-paint, digging the trenches, and preparing for guerilla warfare Pressler-style. The SBC Wars won't stop until the "other side" is in a body bag. Rather, the SBC Wars won't stop until the Fudamentalists stomp out all dissent and the "other side" ceases to exist.

And you actually thought the so-called "Conservative Resuregence" was about the BIBLE???

Onward Christian Soldiers!

Do you smell an implosion??? Maybe, Bruce Gourley was on to something....