![]() Why? Because in 2021, Saddleback ordained three women to serve as pastors of their church. The very document, which was used on February 21, 2023, by the Credentials Committee of the SBC to disfellowship one of her largest churches, Saddleback Church. Mohler was instrumental in the formation of the Baptist Faith and Message 2000. Simply put, the only way to affirm women serving in the pastoral role is to reject the authority and sufficiency of biblical texts such as 1 Corinthians 14 and 1 Timothy 2.” The divide over women serving in the pastorate served as a signal of the deeper divide over the authority and interpretation of the Bible. “In truth, the issue of women serving as pastors fueled the Conservative Resurgence in the SBC. According to Albert Mohler, this issue fueled what became known as the Conservative Resurgence: If one believed in the inerrancy of Scripture, then such a one would de facto reject the notion of a female pastor. To affirm women in the pastorate marked one as a liberal or moderate who denied the inerrancy of Scripture. Connected to this debate was the ordination of women. Originally published Thursday, 06 April 2023.In the 1970s and 1980s, the Southern Baptist Convention quarreled over the inerrancy of Scripture. Visit for more inspiring prayer content. Now that you've prayed, are you in need of someone to pray for YOU? Click the button below! You can find out more by clicking the link below! Want more Your Daily Prayer? We also have a podcast ! This podcast is different than the written devotional you just read, but carries the same commitment to a closer look at Scripture each day. The best way to connect with Ashley is to grab a free devotional or Bible study and join her newsletter at. If Ashley isn't writing, you can find her with her husband, three children, and two floppy-eared Goldens on their south Georgia farmland. She has written for Kingdom Edge Magazine, Guideposts, Crosswalk, The Secret Place, enLIVEn, The Bubbling Brook and more. She is known for her relatability and for passionately writing and speaking about mental, emotional, and relational health from a biblical worldview. In Jesus’s name, Amen.Īshley Moore is a writer and host of be the two™podcast. Let us refresh others and encourage them! Let us be like a life-giving river that points them back to you. Lord, let our presence be like your presence to them. Jesus, I pray that as we take our fill of your goodness that you would cause us to overflow onto those around us. Help us desire these things more than anything else. ![]() Lord, help us hunger for your Word, and godly community, and fight for time to pray and commune with you. God, we pray for strength to desire the things that you call good. We know how hard it is to deny our fleshly, human desires and obey you instead. Help us to forgive those who offend us, Lord. And Jesus, forgive us for filling ourselves with the wrong things more than we desire to fill ourselves with your truth. Thank you for the gift of Your Spirit and the power to change! Lord, forgive us when our words and actions misrepresent you to those around us. Thank you for your forgiveness and for making us new creations. Is it a struggle to find a moment to be with God over our kids, coworkers, spouses, or friends? Do money, power, or status drive us? Or maybe our lives are too full of noise and distraction. Does our diet consist of hours of social media, streaming binges, or overindulgence in food or drink? Perhaps we are overly ambitious. So, this begs the question, if what we say and do isn't life-giving, then what is in our hearts? Maybe we are too full of entertainment. The Bible tells us to guard our hearts because out of the heart flow the issues of life ( Proverbs 4:23). When Jesus confronted the Pharisees, He said whatever their hearts were full of is what would come out of their mouths ( Matthew 12:34-35). Jesus painted a beautiful word picture when He said whoever believes in Him would overflow with life-giving water ( John 7:38). Yes, we still experience the effect of sin on this side of Heaven, but we are a new creation in Christ. The tension lies somewhere between the two. But we also can't use God’s forgiveness as a means of cheap grace, giving us a free ticket to heaven while we still live controlled by our flesh on earth. Have you ever met someone who claimed to be a Christian, but their walk didn’t match their talk? Does your boss use an overly critical tone with his employees? Is there a friend who loves to share the current gossip? Or perhaps you have found yourself complaining or grumbling about something in a less than God-honoring way. I think Christians openly admit that just because we love Jesus doesn't mean we don’t still make sinful choices or say hurtful things. "Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, “Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” - John 7:38, ESV
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