WISHFUL THINKING ABOUT WOMEN PASTORS FROM DR. JACK GRAHAM?

By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 23, 2012 in Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention

Apprising Ministries reminds you that while the issue of women being ordained elders and pastors has been debated within some of evangelicalism, up until now it’s been essentially contained within the more charismatic and Pentecostal fringes. The more mainstream denominations, e.g. the Southern Baptist Convention, have for the most part still maintained the proper Biblical position that women cannot be ordained as elders.

However, as one whose work in the Lord is to monitor Intel along the Internet Front and assess trends within the larger visible church, it’s my considered opinion that this will soon be changing. You need to know that placing women in the pastorate is now going to be a real push by those falling victim to the delusion of Rodney King theology passing as Christian doctrine in too much of the church visible.

In fact, this issue is closer to the nearly anything goes SBC than you may realize. For example, in Emerging Ecumenical Evangelephants And The Word Faith Movement I reminded you that Elevation Church of prophet-leader Steven Furtick was a 2007 plant of the North Carolina Baptists, the NC state convention for the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC):

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You might wonder what this has to do with the subject of women pastors. Well, I showed you recently that Word Faith Pastrix Christine Caine Preaches Sunday Morning sermon For Steven Furtick. Caine is a pastrix at the nefarious Word Faith Hillsong Church (HC) in Australia where pastor Brian Houston and his wife pastrix Bobbie are the “senior pastors.”

Quite obviously, given his growing ties with the Word Faith movement in general and with Hillsong in particular, Steven Furtick has no problem with women usurping the office of elder. With this in mind, we turn now to Dr. Jack Graham, the pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church and vision-caster for PowerPoint Ministries, who was in Elephant Room 2 along with Furtick.

It’s interesting to note that Graham, a two-time president of the SBC, follows heretical HC pastor Brian Houston, e.g. he retweeted:

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Really; Dr. Graham thinks Brian Houston’s someone to learn leadership from when his church is in rebellion against God’s form of church leadership? In the following Graham praises fellow Southern Baptist Beth Moore, who acts as an elder herself ((BETH MOORE PREACHES SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE AT LOUIE GIGLIO’S PASSION CITY CHURCH)) and aforementioned HC WF pastrix Christine Caine, a rebel against the Word of God:

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In fact, Graham’s quite taken with pastrix Caine as evidenced by these tweets:

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Against this backdrop, the following Twitter exchange a couple of days ago between Dr. Jack Graham and HC WF pastrix Christine Caine begins to look a bit like wishful thinking about women pastors on his part: