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Posted: 03/08/2012 in pastors who deceive, pastors who lie, Peter Lumpkins
Tags: David Allen, deceipt, intentional deception, Jerry Vines, lies, misrepsentation. Peter Lumpkins is crazy, NAMB, Paige Patterson, Peter Lumpkins, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
July 9, 2012 reached an all time low for Peter Lumpkins whose knuckles were already dragging the ground. In an article named, "Big, big $$$$ to attend Send North America Conference by Peter Lumpkins." Calling the cost a "fat fee," Plumpkins accuses the North America Mission Board of charging for "what we send money for them to do–educate people on the significance of missions both in North America and the world."
Wow! One might think such an explosion of concern must mean that Kevin Ezell had set up an entrance fee at the Alpharetta headquarters and instituted the selling of indulgences in the lobby. How much might such "Big, big $$$$" be? $500? $1,000? More?
Has NAMB really reached the point that a conference (really a series of workshops) must cost hundreds of dollars?
In a word? No.
Plumpkins made much ado about nothing. And by "much" that means he made the Rocky Mountains out of a single serving of peanuts.
The cost for the entire conference was $99 per attendee for early registration. For those missing the early bird, the increase was an almost unbearable $20 more. Spouses in each case could come for half price.
In arguing his point, Waco, GA, pastor Peter Lumpkins complains that he could not go even if he had a scholarship. Why?
They cannot afford to send me much less our hauling a van load over to Woodstock to get inspired about church planting.
God forbid if they had held Send North America in a focus city like San Diego. Lumpkins would have given birth to an alien.
Pay close attention: When Lumpkins talks about "hauling a van load," he is lying. He never had any intention of hauling anyone to SNA. His church barely has a van load in attendance. This is just another smear.
Also, it isn't the responsibility of the North American Mission Board to tell pastor Lumpkins of Waco, GA, what is going on in the world as his insists. There is an entirely other mission board for that. Of course, he'll divert the truth about his lack of passion for world missions by complaining about cost. Just as he has no interest in church planting.
Then he complains about the format. Yawn. Then he complains about the lack of diversity in the lineup. One is forced to wonder just how integrated the Corner Stone Baptist Chapel of western Georgia is at 11:00 on Sunday morning? Had any black members join lately?
One observant commenter (Dr. B. Devine) wrote the conference contained lunch and dinner on the first night as well as three meals on the following day. There were 15 workshops and multiple breakout sessions. (If spousal meals were also included, then their registration fee was virtually recouped in saved meal expenses. For general registrants the savings would equal about 1/2 of registration.)
Following this, Peter made two comments (12:09pm and 12:18pm) that are so sarcastic, over-the-top and filled with vitriol it's very difficult to believe they were made by a Christian. Between he and his girlfriends (Lydia and Mary) the comment thread at this blog is a seething cauldron of bile, rancid flesh and mental excrement.
One wonders why Plumpkins didn't just borrow the money from this buddy Jerry Vines? He probably has plenty.
All this is set up for an interesting contrast as it concerns Peter Lumpkins. He routinely attacks people and entities all over the Southern Baptist Convention using lies, distortions, half-truths, insinuations, and implications. There literally is no depth to which he will not stoop to "get a story."
The contrast is why he has never written anything derogatory about recent expenses at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He complained about a $99 conference hosted by the North American Mission Board, but what about the construction of the luxurious and over-priced chapel at Southwestern Seminary?
An article in the Baptist Press dated October 26, 2009 reported the approval to build an expansive, wasteful, 3,500-seat chapel on the center of the campus. The cost was projected to be $30.2 million, although overruns were estimated to have raised the praise to the $32 million range. The chapel features a stage large enough for a 90 piece orchestra, a 200+ voice choir, with a "state of the art" sound and video projection system. (With the passage of time it was state of the art.) The J.W. MacGorman Chapel and Performance Center, as it is called, encloses 96,000 square feet, and was dedicated in late 2011.
What does $30-32 million dollars get you in Fort Worth, Texas, in the center of the seminary campus that once was the crown jewel of the Southern Baptist Convention?
A chapel that is almost never used. Outside groups rent the facility for concerts, and it is most certainly used for "special occasions" on campus. But it is not used for regular chapel gatherings. Why should it be? If all students full and part time were on campus at the same time it would not be full.
Where is Lumpkins on this? Only in Peter Lumpkins can you find a person who strains out a hundred while swallowing 32 million. Flailing away like Don Quixote after a windmill he castigates NAMB for a ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR conference, yet gives a pass on Southwestern Seminary's waste of $32 million for a monument to a man. No criticism at all is to be found of the cesspool called his blog.
Why? Because Peter is in tight with Jerry Vines (Paige Patterson's best friend in the world) and in tight with the faculty at Southwestern Seminary. His blog features articles and mentions of Dr. Malcolm Yarnell, a professor at SWBTS, and entries from Dr. David Allen, a dean at SWBTS. A review of Peter's ultra-fundamentalist, anti-liquor book was reviewed at baptisttheology.org, the official theology site of Southwestern Seminary.
Those ties that bind may soon be the ropes that hang.
Peter Lumpkins needs new sources
Posted: 25/02/2012 in Peter Lumpkins
Tags: big problems, correction, Liquid Paper, mea culpa, mistakes, NAMB, North American Mission Board, Peter Lumpkins, problems, repentance, sources, untrustworthy
This week, Plumpkins repeated an unsubstantiated rumor that a "gag order" had been issued to NAMB employees. Under the title, NAMB employees under new gag rule? by Peter Lumpkins, he said this:
I'm told by sources in close proximity to the situation that during the chapel service at the North American Mission Board this week, employees were required to sign a statement of confidentiality since information was "leaking out of NAMB"* In short, an order of silence became the norm. And, the sense I got was not private, personal information leaking out, information like social security numbers, salaries of employees and other similar private data which may very well cause pause for concern.
Instead, the "leaked" information apparently pertains to matters which should not necessarily be considered privileged information. For example, if cooperating Southern Baptist churches which give enormous amounts of monies to fund church plants desire to know precisely which church plants receive funding, how much funding, and for how long, no such restrictions such apply. In addition, all stats for church plants including all liaisons with other theological groups (if any) should not be hindered in the free flow of information.
In very short order, Mike Ebert, who works in the communications department at NAMB, made the first comment on the post:
Peter–Absolute fiction.
Posted by: Mike Ebert | Feb 23, 2012 at 07:37 PM