Baptist Union of Great Britain
The Baptist Union of Great Britain is a Baptist Christian denominational organization that supports a network of local Baptist churches across Great Britain through regional associations, training colleges, and resources for ministry, mission, and safeguarding.www.baptist.org.uk
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Sep 17, 2026
Jacob PraschHOST
even professing evangelicals.
Jacob PraschHOST
Why did the Baptist Union not hit the roof over J.D. Greer that Baptists should be the number one spokesman for homosexual and lesbian rights? which they see as their right to adopt children and bring them up in homosexual relationships and to go into schools and indoctrinate four and five and six and seven year olds to believe homosexuality is normal.
Jacob PraschHOST
And Christians should be the advocates for their rights.
Jacob PraschHOST
That's what they see their rights as being.
Jacob PraschHOST
The San Francisco homosexual choir sung a song about it.
Jacob PraschHOST
We're coming for your children and you won't even know it.
Jacob PraschHOST
the president of the southern baptist union why why did they put up with a man like that why your house is left to you desolate it continues in verse 39 which is actually a preface to Matthew's version of the Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24 and 25.
Jacob PraschHOST
Your house is left to you desolate.
Thomas BreimaierGUEST
Yeah, so the backdrop to the Donald Great controversy is Spurgeon becoming concerned, largely based on reports coming to him from within the Baptist world, that there were preachers and congregations that had moved toward what he would have deemed as non-evangelical and probably outside the bounds of orthodoxy interpretations of scripture and things like the atonement and doctrines like that.
Thomas BreimaierGUEST
Spurgeon, I think, was uncomfortable with the more generous position of fraternity that the Baptist Union at the time took.
Thomas BreimaierGUEST
It didn't have a robust doctrinal statement.
Thomas BreimaierGUEST
It essentially determined whether or not you were Baptist.
Thomas BreimaierGUEST
Yeah, so the backdrop to the Donald Great controversy is Spurgeon becoming concerned, largely based on reports coming to him from within the Baptist world, that there were preachers and congregations that had moved toward what he would have deemed as non-evangelical and probably outside the bounds of orthodoxy interpretations of scripture and things like the atonement and doctrines like that.
Thomas BreimaierGUEST
And so Spurgeon, I think, was uncomfortable with the more generous position of fraternity that the Baptist Union at the time took.
Thomas BreimaierGUEST
It didn't have a robust doctrinal statement.
Thomas BreimaierGUEST
It essentially determined whether or not you were Baptist.
Thomas BreimaierGUEST
So the backdrop to the Downgrade controversy is Spurgeon becoming concerned, largely based on reports coming to him from within the Baptist world, that there were, uh, preachers and congregations that had moved toward what he would have deemed as, um, non-evangelical and probably outside the bounds of orthodoxy, um, interpretations of scripture and things like the atonement and, uh, doctrines like that.
Thomas BreimaierGUEST
And so Spurgeon, I think, was uncomfortable with the more generous position of, uh, fraternity that the Baptist Union at the time took.
Thomas BreimaierGUEST
Um, it didn't have a robust doctrinal statement.
Thomas BreimaierGUEST
Um- It essentially determined whether or not you were Baptist and, uh, holding to some very basic core tenets of the faith, and then, uh, you could be in.
David RobertsonHOST
I'm playing that because this week's Download Music Festival, attended by up to 90,000 people, and at which Guns N' Roses were the headline act on the second day, was also attended by 45 chaplains.
David RobertsonHOST
And these were from the Church of England, the Baptist Union, and others, I believe.
David RobertsonHOST
and they say that they were very well received, which doesn't surprise me.
David RobertsonHOST
I think we should be doing that kind of thing.
Ray Rhodes Jr.GUEST
And I'm reading letters from pastors across England.
Ray Rhodes Jr.GUEST
He's writing to the Baptist union and some of them are, condemning Spurgeon for being schismatic or whatever, and others are commending him.
Ray Rhodes Jr.GUEST
And so you can see how the lines are drawn during the downgrade controversy.
Ray Rhodes Jr.GUEST
So that was helpful being there and having that.
Ray Rhodes Jr.GUEST
Of course, Darwin lived in London and Darwinism was also taking more root.
Ray Rhodes Jr.GUEST
So there's all sorts of attacks against the truth happening.
Ray Rhodes Jr.GUEST
And Spurgeon had been frustrated for probably 10 years prior to the, at least 10 years prior to the downgrade controversy with some of the goings on in the Baptist Union, sort of the more pragmatism that was taking over, worship services that he didn't feel were really God-honoring.
Ray Rhodes Jr.GUEST
pastors that were living more loosely than he thought that they should be living, even though the downgrade controversy was primarily about doctrinal issues.