Who is litton

Earlier this month, the task force named Guidepost Solutions to handle the review. Our churches want to see our entities working together in harmony, and they want to see the EC leading the way. Litton pointed to Executive Committee responsibilities originating from the floor of the annual meeting each year.

Litton, who is pastor of Redemption Church near Mobile, Ala. Southern Baptists are a family of churches, he said. They should be marked by love as Jesus said in John and should outdo one another in showing love Romans The mood of our times is to attack, demonize, make allegations and threaten. We are seldom slow to speak and slow to anger. Why not come and reason together instead of promoting tribal hostility, ungraciousness and suspicion of one another?

He takes a strong stand against sexual abuse in the church. I think we also need to be very pastoral in how we handle victims: how we hear them, how we empathize and sympathize with them. We want to bring all of this out and expose it to the light.

We want to be diligent, that all of our churches are safe places to be protected and safe places for people who have been victimized. It is not being taught, it is not being believed among our seminary professors. No one is endorsing it. We need to understand it and we need to help find justice. How do people use it? Some, obviously, misuse it, but is there ever a benefit to people who have suffered injustice? We have a higher tool and the higher tool is the gospel.

Hurt and pain takes intentionality. It takes people spending time and listening and doing what we can to heal wounds. And these are old wounds. As a pastor, years ago, I stopped talking about those things from the pulpit. I encourage my people to be good citizens and voters.

I encourage them to contribute to good candidates, give to campaigns. But I stopped trying to convince them of my political opinions because I am to be a gospel-centered person. The best thing I can do is make good citizens of them, challenge them from the word of God. So, anytime we come on a subject in scripture, we deal with it. He believes pastors should be men, but his wife has helped him teach on marriage and family.

I believe the roles that God gives us, I believe that the pastor, and this is right in line with the Baptist Faith and Message , the elder of the church has to be a male, the primary teaching pastor. But I also believe in the autonomy of the local church. I believe the word of God does, but my wife is an apt teacher and she helps me communicate to our people.

He spent the early years of his ministry in Texas and Arizona before moving to Alabama, where he's been the senior pastor at Redemption since My parents' marriage was dissolving," Litton said. He said his dad wasn't ready.

But the pastor kept pressing in, loving his dad and inviting him to church. Wednesday updates: Conservative Baptist Network-backed candidate wins convention post. Monday updates: Pastors expected to push for expanded Southern Baptist sex abuse investigation before full convention.

And I knew from that point on — that didn't instantly change my life — but I had a front row seat on a miracle, and I knew that change had taken place. He said he gave his life to Christ and became a church planter after he went to seminary and began working in Tucson, Arizona. Litton was married to Tammy Litton for 25 years. She died in August in a car accident. They have three children, Josh, Tyler and Kayla.

In , he married Kathy Ferguson, who was married to a Baptist pastor in Denver. Her husband also died in an accident. And it alters the course of your life. In many ways, you think your life's going a certain direction when all of a sudden everything seems to change and you're out of control. So we both have a profound sense of pain, suffering in our life that has changed us. And I think it's changed us far for the better.

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