DSM IV to First Baptist Decatur: ‘Yea, hath God said?’

First Baptist Church Decatur plans to install female pastor Julie Pennington-Russell. While not every step Decatur Baptist has taken towards apostasy can be pointed out from this distance, a sure wedge used to remove a congregation form truth occupies a prominent position there. For counseling the saints, Decatur relies on Pyschoheresy, which is:

[T]he integration of secular psychological counseling theories and therapies with the Bible. Psychoheresy is also the intrusion of such theories into the preaching and practice of Christianity, especially when they contradict or compromise biblical Christianity in terms of the nature of man, how he is to live, and how he changes” (PAM).

To promote Pyshcoheresy, Decatur Baptists advertises Verdery Counseling Center on their church website. VCC explains their purpose is “To provide competent pastoral psychotherapy based on a sound psychological and theological perspective.” The perspective which seems to have been developed at Decatur Baptist is to do as reprobate men would advise, and couch their advice in the fear of God.

If the congregation would drop the DSM IV and pick up their Bible again they would rediscover this scripture:

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. (1Ti 2:11-13)

Notice that this instruction is not given in the context of some obscure cultural condition extant at the time, but is based on both God’s hierarchal design of governance, further stipulated at the Fall.

David Dansker

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