SBC Is Missional, But Cranky?

Al Mohler regarding the SBC:

“We have taken on the reputation for denominational crankiness. We appear upset, angry and frustrated,” Mohler lamented. “We cannot afford to waste the opportunities to reach our neighbors by being cranky about things that are irrelevant and unhelpful and extraneous to the SBC…

“If we’re a denomination of unhappy cranks, we will decline and disappear and deserve to do so.”…

“Southern Baptists cannot be seen as backward and cranky, as committed to the wrong kind of cultural identification and trapped within that kind of isolation. We’re going to have to be missional, directed outward, uncranky, visionary, oriented to the future, happy and joyful, and claiming and assuming the responsibility that Christ has invested in us and being faithful to that.”