In my post on Baptist Nonsense, I gave a run-down of some rather childish motions given by messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention - some of which were pointedly critical of Mark Driscoll. In that post, I mentioned a motion made by Brian LeStourgeon of an Arizona church to call Driscoll to "answer his critics." I was critical myself of LeStourgeon's motion, as the description given on SBC.net seemed as though LeStourgeon was a critic of Driscoll himself.
According to LeStourgeon, however, "the motion was a gentle rebuke of those who were ready to hang a millstone around Driscoll's neck." According to the pastor:
"The thrust of it was that if you were going to act out a portion of Matthew 18, you should be ready for the entirety of Matthew 18.Being that their motions were not likely to return to the floor, I offered my motion as a way of saying, 'Not everyone here agrees with this, or with spending time on this, why are we even talking about this?...' What I did not expect is that so many in attendance agreed. As the thousands in the room realized what I was saying, the response was so loud that I couldn't hear myself reading the rest of the motion. Baptist Press has a wrap-up that excerpts a few words from the motion. The result is a case of reporting a fact but misstating the truth."
I hope this clarifies the mischaracterization of LeStourgeon's motion.
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Thanks for your motion, Brian! Also, I thought this was good reading from another blog, describing how upset the young guys were, particularly the last sentence...
"However, calm and steady leadership began to prevail. At lunch, 600 fiery, angry young leaders were met by Johnny Hunt, Danny Akin, Al Mohler and others at the baptist21 panel at Sojourn Community Church and reassured that everything would turn out alright. And even as I was walking through the LifeWay exhibit finding other authors I think we should ban before Mark Driscoll, Dr. Mohler offered words of advice through the fabulous world of Twitter saying, “I beseech ye brethren, do not respond with anger to these motions. Give time and let us reason together. Trust the trustee system.” When we reconvened for the final round of motions, you could feel the turn. Some motions were made firing back at the ridiculousness of the day’s earlier proceedings, and one even drew a chuckle from Dr. Hunt as a kind messenger made a motion extending an invitation to “that Driscoll feller” to defend himself before the SBC at next year’s meeting.
I do appreciate the kind words about the kind messenger. Thanks, Josh.
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