Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear has explained why he chose to attend last night’s White House dinner to honor evangelical leaders despite his calls for the denomination to decouple itself from political partisanship.
As about 100 evangelical leaders and their wives attended the state-like dinner in Washington, D.C., there were some new faces in the crowd of pastors, evangelists and activists who had not previously engaged with the administration in a public manner.
Greear, who became the youngest SBC president in history this summer, was one who seemed to some critics to be a bit out of place because he represents a more progressive strain within the SBC and has decried Church entanglement with political parties.
Greear has also warned against church leaders declaring “a particular political strategy as God’s.”
Considering that President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were given a Bible signed by evangelical leaders that had an inscription that reads “History will record the greatness that you have brought for generations,” Greear…
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