Last year, we reported that Adam Greenway, former president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, was forced to resign amid revelations of gross incompetence. Greenway, who had taken control of the seminary three and a half years ago, saw nothing but decline under his leadership. He was unable to secure a new position at the International Mission Board (IMB), which he thought his close friend, Paul Chitwood had created especially for him, due to pushback from the board of trustees at the IMB.

The board of trustees of Southwestern Seminary spoke openly about Greenway’s incompetence, highlighting areas of concern such as dysfunctionality among senior leadership, budget mismanagement, overspending resulting in deficits per month, and resistance to safeguards board leadership wanted to implement.

Greenway, who had fired conservative professors at the school, including Bobby Lopez and David Allen, had spent several weeks following the 2022 annual meeting arguing against the Scriptures as well as the Southern Baptist Convention’s statement of faith and biblical prohibition of women holding the role of pastor. Now, Greenway is back on social media once again offering a defense for a church that is not only a false church but has lifted its proverbial middle finger to God and the Scriptures by ordaining women to the pastorate.

While Greenway claims that he is not in favor of women pastors, he offered a defense for Saddleback stating that the decision to disfellowship Saddleback was both premature and unwise, as it was based on the SBC Executive Committee’s interpretation of the BFM.

Greenway argues that the SBC has never required churches to affirm the BFM in its entirety in order to be considered in friendly cooperation with the Convention. He also suggests that the SBCEC’s decision establishes a dangerous precedent, as it imposes an authoritative interpretation of the BFM and moves beyond the objective criteria of the three disqualifications enumerated in Article III of the SBC Constitution.

Further, Greenway argued that the denomination’s statement of faith regarding women pastors only applies to the role of “senior pastor,” despite the fact that there is no biblical role of “senior pastor,” only pastor or elder.

It’s difficult to ascertain how such a supposedly learned man can be so ignorant of what the Scriptures clearly teach on the role of women in the Church—both the office and the function of pastor in the Church is reserved for men.

Moreover, Greenway argues that the SBC should not seek to use its “ad interim authority” to take actions in areas where the Convention is divided in opinion and instead argues that the SBC to amend Article III if it becomes clear that an issue should be made a test of fellowship but to do so with full SBC debate and consideration. The problem with Greenway’s view, however, is that it does not take into consideration that what God has clearly stated needs no debate—any church that rebels against the clear teachings of Scripture should be deemed out of fellowship. It’s really that simple.

Greenway absurdly argues that Southern Baptists should expend less energy and effort trying to kick out more churches that want to be in friendly cooperation with the SBC and instead, to be the kind of churches that others want to affiliate with, rather than the kind they want to leave. Clearly, Greenway isn’t concerned with churches being accountable to God, but rather being worldly and pleasing to man.

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