The Limits of Resolutions

Laws, like resolutions made by religious bodies, provide ideals but offer little assistance in the actual cultivation of those ideals. Like the law in Romans 7, the SBC’s resolution can reveal a deep and deadly fracture line, but it can do nothing in itself to address it. We can look at the SBC resolution positively — we can affirm each and every clause with all of our beings — but if those words remain simply words, without transformed actions, we remain captive to an entirely different resolution.