“…so that you in your sweet little intact homeschooled appropriate gender role complementarian family are going to be ministered to by the woman who’s been divorced four times…”

In evangelical Christianity, believers want to judge those outside the church rather than those within, said a conservative Baptist.

“The reason that’s the case is because we don’t see the church as a family,” said Dr. Russell D. Moore, dean of the School of Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, on Friday.

“We see the church as a gathering of people who share the same ideas and it is very, very easy for you to get amen’s and applause by standing up and denouncing sins that are not immediately present in your own congregation,” he said.

The Southern Baptist pastor made the observation as he addressed attendees at the “Connecting Church and Home” conference in Louisville, Ky., which is aimed at calling back Christians to a biblically and theologically grounded relationship between the church and home.

During the opening session, Moore noted that American evangelicals are unified but around “entirely wrong things.”

“We unify around the things that unify us in the flesh rather than being unified together in those things that unify us in the spirit,” he lamented.

He called attendees to look at the difference between the way conservative evangelical churches speak to the issue of divorce and the way they speak to the issue of homosexuality.

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