Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee Expels Predominantly White Church, Matoaka Baptist Church in Ochelata, Oklahoma, after Pastor Sherman Jaquess defends blackface impression of Ray Charles and is not remorseful and repentant of his offensive act.
Daniel Whyte III, President of Gospel Light Society International, tells Southern Baptist President Bart Barber and the Executive Committee Interim President Dan Summerlin and Jonathan Howe, you did the right thing here. This racist foolishness has to be eradicated from the Southern Baptist Convention, so this is a good move on your part. We pray that it will strike fear in the hearts of other racist people in the Southern Baptist Convention and that they will know the Convention will not tolerate this foolishness.
Whyte says further to Southern Baptist President Bart Barber, Executive Committee Interim President Dan Summerlin, and Vice-president Jonathan Howe to make sure that you are honest and fair across the board about expelling pastors and churches about sins and disobedience to the Holy Scriptures, and make sure you expel all pastors and churches that are homosexual-affirming. For example, the church in Florida that baptizes homosexuals and allows the friends of homosexuals to baptize homosexuals must go with the quickness as well. This should be a sudden death situation. Also, if you’re going to expel white pastors and churches for having female pastors on their staff such as Rick Warren and Saddleback Church in California, you must expel black pastors and black churches that have female pastors on their staff. You cannot say this is a matter of black culture; this is about the black-and-white Word of God for all churches that belong to God and the Lord Jesus Christ. You do not have the right nor the power to choose who gets to stay based on their culture and feelings. The Word of God is KING, not feelings and culture. You are in danger of being accused of hypocrisy and partiality. You are also in danger of being sued by the churches you have expelled when you do not expel others who are doing the same sin or worse. Whyte is well aware that he is being accused by some white and black pastors of causing division regarding women pastoring over men in the Church, but Whyte is not causing division, the Word of God is what is causing the division — the same Word of God that all of Whyte’s Bible-believing brethren, black and white used to believe, but now they are changing things for culture, feelings, and to fit in with a perverse and wicked generation. Whyte says he knows it is hard for many pastors and churches to see how “little sins” such as pastors and churches and women tearing down the authority of the husband and the father in the home and women ruling over men in the home, which has led to divorce and remarriage without biblical grounds, blended families and the destruction of children’s lives, which led to churches allowing women to be pastors and to preach over men, and other so-called “little sins” have led the family, the Church, and America to these horrific days of sodomy/homosexuality, transgenderism, and human beings saying with a straight face, they do not want to be humans but would rather be dogs and cats, and with many church young people being deceived and brainwashed by the demonic spirit of WOKEISM through the Church where they are confused and believe this evil foolishness and now they are “GONE WITH THE WIND.” ONE OF THE REASONS GOD HATES SIN SO MUCH, (WHICH HE DOES NOT SEE ANY SIN AS “LITTLE”), IS THAT SIN GROWS AND PROGRESSES TO GREATER SINS. For “A LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENETH THE WHOLE LUMP.” We are all in the midst of the GREAT FALLING AWAY, so “God’s 7,000,” God’s “REMNANT CHURCH,” and God’s “FAITHFUL FEW,” STAND ON THE WORD OF GOD AND BE FAITHFUL TO THE END THOUGH THE STARS FALL!
Five months after Pastor Sherman Jaquess of Matoaka Baptist Church in Ochelata, Oklahoma, defended his decisions to wear blackface mimicking legendary singer Ray Charles and dress like Native American figure Pocahontas, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee has expelled his church from the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
In a statement to The Christian Post Thursday, the SBC Executive Committee said the Credentials Committee of the denomination recommended during its Sept. 18-19 meeting that Matoaka Baptist Church “be deemed not in friendly cooperation with the Convention based on a lack of intent to cooperate in resolving concerns regarding discriminatory behavior on the basis of ethnicity.”
Jaquess did not immediately respond to calls for comment from CP. But he told The Tennessean that his church had been part of the SBC since 1880, when many Baptist leaders still defended slavery, and called the decision to expel his church “repugnant.”
“Their decision is repugnant,” he said. “They made a decision and recommendation on something they don’t know anything about.”
The church has the right to appeal the recommendation of the Credentials Committee, but Jaquess told The Tennessean he was not sure he would.
According to the SBC, “A church which has been found not to be in cooperation may appeal the decision to the Convention by submitting a written appeal to the chair of the Credentials Committee at least 30 days prior to the Convention’s annual meeting.”
The appeal must be accompanied by evidence showing that the issues that led to the finding that they are not in friendly cooperation with the denomination have been addressed.
“If a church which has been found not to be in cooperation with the Convention addresses the issues which led to that finding, it may apply to the Credentials Committee for a reconsideration of its status. If the circumstances warrant, the Credentials Committee may recommend to the Executive Committee that the church be once again considered a cooperating church,” the denomination explains.
Jaquess was photographed wearing blackface at a church Valentine’s Day event in 2017. Another photo from 2014 also shows him dressed as Pocahontas.
The images sparked significant outrage, and Jaquess told his congregation he received death threats after the photos were made public and had to hire security guards for a period. It was unclear Thursday if this protection is still in place.
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