By Mike Holloway, Guest Columnist ALEXANDRIA (LBM)--Where are we going in the Southern Baptist Convention pertaining to the love of God? I am hearing and reading about more and more Southern Baptists who say that God does not love the world, with some using theologically hair-splitting statements like “well God doesn’t love everyone the same or with the same kind of love” to argue their point. I would like to see the Bible verse that tells us that. More importantly, I really want to know if the Southern Baptist Convention is moving in that direction, one that discourages me from going to my neighbor and telling Him that God loves him and has a wonderful plan for his life. If this is the new SBC direction, then we really don’t have much of a message of hope to a lost and dying world. We need to throw away our Gospel tracts and stop doing outreach altogether because we’d be lying to some of our neighbors if God really doesn’t love them. I recently read an article by Lisa Bevere titled, “God Doesn’t Love His Children Equally,” in which she contends “God loves us uniquely rather than equally.” She wrote convincingly that “unique” is better than “equal” in that “equal” implies God’s love is “measured or … [Read more...]