Sep
22
2007
Why the SBC Outpost Should Change Its Name to the SBC Outhouse
Blog attacks on Southern Baptist leaders have reached an unprecedented level. Leading the charge is the website SBC Outpost. For weeks now, the bloggers behind this blog have been loading, aiming, and firing at just about every Southern Baptist leader that does not cater to their sensationalistic reporting. Most of the attacks come insidiously masked as “questions” and “curiosity” when in reality they are simply veiled attempts to mock, ridicule, and drag our Convention through the mud.
When Marty Duren first began SBC Outpost, the intention of the site was to bring renewal to the SBC by uniting younger leaders and asking tough questions about the burgeoning SBC bureaucracy. As long as Marty was at the helm, the Outpost remained a viable, respectable option for those who wanted to hear a different perspective. (I often disagreed with Marty’s conclusions, but I appreciated the tone of the debate.)
Since Marty “retired” from blogging, the site has been left in the hands of a renegade bunch who are determined to smear current SBC leaders and their families. Last night, I followed a link to an animated video that featured the faces of each Seminary present pasted onto dancing showgirls. Incensed by the mockery found in the post, I then breathed a sigh of relief…
They’ve finally done it. The SBC Outpost guys have shown their true colors. Their site is not ”news,” not respectable, not even gracious. It is a site meant to anonymously assassin the character of other men, openly mock the legacy of our seminaries, demean the positions of leadership in our Convention and rid the blogosphere of the honor and humility that should characterize our discussions.
I am tired of SBC Outpost giving the rest of us Baptist ministers who blog a bad name. I am sad to see the brilliance and energies of men like Ben Cole be channeled into the tearing down of others rather than the building up of God’s kingdom. I am sickened at the thought of how we must appear to the watching world – as we increasingly become known for how we mock each other, rather than how we love each other.
The SBC Outpost should do all of us a favor and change its name to the SBC Outhouse. Then, at least, there would be no misunderstanding about the site’s content.
written by Trevin Wax. © 2007 Kingdom People Blog