Mark Wingfield, executive director and publisher of Baptist News Global, penned a critique calling the Frankfurt Declaration pompous, hypocritical, and “itself the very definition of an abuse of power.” He writes that “some of the usual suspects” signed the document, but notably absent is any elected leader from the Southern Baptist Convention.
“If anyone should know about ‘abuse of power,’ [it’s] MacArthur and his cronies,” Wingfield continues. “Their entire theology is built on a hierarchical system of male dominance and abuse of women and children. Their theology depends on verbal and sometimes physical abuse of LGBTQ persons, immigrants and people of color. And now they’re going to lecture the rest of us about ‘abuse of power’ and claim to do so with ‘humility’?”
Wingfield adds, “These are church leaders who believe they are under attack, while they instead are attacking anyone who doesn’t share their beliefs.”
