October 27, 2011
Greetings,
When the news was first posted about Bryant Wright assigning
a task force to consider the SBC name change, I immediately wrote to offer this
statement. What I am about to state is
the same that I have been repeating for almost 5 years to my beloved SBC
convention and fellow brothers and sisters.
On our watch as pastors, leaders, teachers and servants of
our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we have lost this nation. We have seen evil continue to abound, the church become less and less and
families be destroyed from the inside out.
We are mostly agreed that the only hope for a change in the church, as a
whole and our nation is Revival. Literally,
revival is God’s Presence coming down and working a work within us that is
Divine for His glory. Revival only comes
through prevailing prayer.
We are currently, as a nation, under the judgment of
God. We have seen record drought, record
flooding, record tornadoes and an
economy tittering on explosion. All the
while the church methods and means continue to point toward entertainment and
humanistic efforts for numbers. Sin
continues to deepen in the pulpits and the pews and we are meeting and worrying
about a name change.
I have expressed my concern and desire to see a deep, substantial
prayer call for all of the SBC. Truly,
good people, if revival comes down, what difference does the name make? If God be in our midst who cares if ‘southern’
is there or not? It won’t matter to the
soul seeking truth. As old Leonard
Ravenhill said it, ‘Fire is the most attractive thing’. The fire of the Holy Spirit will draw them
and save them and emblaze them for His glory and kingdom. The name is so far removed from priority that
I cannot even comprehend this group existing except to say, I believe it to
lead us to stay away from the main thing – His glory and lost souls.
I beseech you, to put away this agenda. I ask of you to call for prayer in the
seminaries, in the states, in the associations and among the churches to seek
God for His mercy. Let us gather around
the most important thing during this judgment and humble ourselves with
confession in His Presence. For ‘who
knows if He will return and leave a blessing behind Him’.
Let us give ourselves to prayer and not minor issues of a
name change. Now I know some of you will
say, ‘But we prayed before we began.’ I
am not talking about prayer for God to bless , guide and lead the decisions of
this group. I am talking about
confession, brokenness, and deep urgency for a convention that has lost its
way, departed from the holiness of God and sought humanistic approaches over
Divine means of true revival. Prayer
that agonizes over whole families lost, churches dead and dying and pulpits that are so infected with ‘religious’
speaking instead of prayerful and powerful pulpits.
Don’t provoke the Lord to anger any more than what we
already have in this generation.
Until,
Dan Biser
http://www.brokenbeforethethrone.com
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