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SBC Pastor Compares Following Mask Mandates to “Picking Up Your Cross”

by | Feb 25, 2025 | News

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JT Inglish, lead pastor of Storyline Church in Arvada, Colorado, has been appointed to serve on the SBC’s Committee on Committees for the 2025 annual meeting. This influential position helps shape the future leadership of the denomination, making it all the more concerning given Inglish’s past rhetoric.

In 2020, amid the height of COVID mandates, Inglish took the pulpit to scold those who resisted mask requirements, saying: “If it’s that hard for you to pick up a mask, how are you ever gonna pick up a cross?… if you’re so frustrated about what’s happening here, then you don’t understand the power of God to save. You’re actually following a political ideology, not the king of the world.”

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This is blatant spiritual manipulation. Picking up a cross means enduring persecution for Christ, not obeying arbitrary government edicts. To equate mask compliance with Christian faithfulness is absurd, a reckless twisting of Scripture that pressures your congregation into submission under the guise of righteousness.

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If this logic holds, would refusing to use someone’s preferred pronouns also mean someone is failing to follow Christ? This sets a dangerous precedent for future state-imposed compromises.

Even more outrageous is his claim that frustration with COVID policies equates to a lack of faith in God’s saving power. This isn’t biblical teaching, it’s gaslighting. Christians had every right to push back against restrictions that unfairly targeted churches while keeping secular businesses open. Inglish’s words mirrored the rhetoric of progressive pastors who slap a Bible verse on a leftist talking point and call it obedience.

And now he’s been selected to serve in the SBC’s leadership structure. This isn’t just about one sermon—it’s about a pattern of weak, compliant leadership infecting the denomination. Instead of rewarding men who sanctify government control as faithfulness, essentially statism, the SBC must decide whether it will be led by those who bow to cultural pressure or those who stand firm on biblical truth.

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