out, thrown out proverbially on their ear.” Moore left the Southern Baptists prior to the June con-
vention. “Local church people have felt for a long time that the
national leadership is out of touch with rank-and-fi le, grassroots Southern Baptists,” Stone says. There’s a sense that SBC is “experiencing a drift to the left on some issues.” “We’re not trying to take over,” Brad Jurkovich, a Louisiana pastor and a leader of the Conservative Bap- tist Network, told Newsmax. “But pastors are becoming disengaged, because if they raise questions they’re talked down to, accused of being divisive.” He believes the CBN is re-engaging the grassroots, key
he says to reversing membership decline. On diversity, he cited two CBN steering council mem-
bers — African American Lee Brand Jr., vice president of Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary who was elected SBC’s fi rst vice president, and Javier Chavez, pastor of Amistad Cristiana, a Hispanic church in Gaines- ville, Georgia, who ran unsuccessfully for second vice president. “We Hispanics are conservative,” Chavez told Christi-
anity Today, emphasizing that CBN includes Black and brown Baptists, not just white evangelicals. “Honestly, I do not understand why they exist,” Litton
had told Christianity Today in 2020. “I do not know a single professor, seminary, or for that matter a single SBC pastor who does not wholeheartedly stand with the iner- rancy of Scripture.” Despite characterizations of him as a “moderate,” Lit-
ton told CNN “I am thoroughly conservative, theologi- cally and also politically.” Jurkovich is concerned, however, about talk — includ-
ing from Litton before his election — that political involve- ment could be distracting from focus on the Gospel. When preaching about marriage, abortion, or human
equality, Jurkovich said, “I’m preaching the word of God. If that intersects with public policy, so be it. I don’t think we’re meant to withdraw from the public square.” “On the social issues,” Litton responded, “we have not
budged one inch.” “We will continue to oppose abortion with every fi ber of
our being,” defend the integrity of marriage, promote racial equality, and “stand for religious liberty for everyone.” Are there prospects for unity? “I’m all for talking, building relationships,” Jurkovich
said. “But we need to be honest and transparent. Where do we really stand as Southern Baptists?” “‘We need to fi nd some way to come together,” Stone
said. “I planned to reach out to others” if he had won. “But no such outreach has been extended to me.” “I will call leaders to prayer,” Litton told Newsmax.
“We need to do as Jesus did in John Chapter 17: Pray that we will be one as He and the Father are one.”
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