What is your breaking point?
About 7 years ago, the Scouting Organization originally known as Boy Scouts of America rebranded their program to Scouts BSA with the primary change allowing girls to join the organization. Two years ago, they reorganized and formally renamed themselves Scouting America.
It is no secret that Scouting has been full of sexual scandals since the beginning. Although there were legal battles in the 20’s, 30’s and the 70’s and 80’s, it took until 2012 for the cover up of abuse to truly be revealed.
Due to lawsuits as a result of these scandals and cover ups, Boy Scouts of America was forced into bankruptcy to protect themselves from further financial damage. Through this entire timeframe, Scouting also struggled with the homosexual topic as well. In 1978, Boy Scouts of America policy on homosexuals did not allow homsexual leaders. By 2013, political pressure and public influence and loss of membership caused National Scouting leadership to relax their position on homsexuality. First for youth, then for leaders.
With each move the Scouting organization made, their Pack and Troop charters were more and more at risk, as chartering churches struggled to decide if they should continue supporting groups that “supported” homosexuality. The first significant Church to respond to the Boy Scouts of America allowing homosexuals, was the Southern Baptist Convention. (SBC)
While they didn’t issue a blanket ban from the Convention, they focused on a resolution expressing condemnation, rather than an immediate severing of ties with Scouting. Instead, the SBC called for local member churches to reconsider their involvement with Scouting.
What a buzz that was created by all this SEX, SEX, SEX. THE PROBLEM IS SEX…
The Scouting Organization my boys and I have been part of had been chartered by an SBC church for over 20 years. That is until the changes started to take place within the Scouting program in more recent years. One of those changes were some new scouting programs such as new merit badges the scouts could earn. One of those merit badges was called Citizenship in Society. It was released under the concept of what scouting called, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.(DEI). The requirements included discussions on how different family structures function, including such as – those with same sex parents – are recognized and respected within the Society of Scouting.
And that was the breaking point!
And with that, about 2 years ago the SBC church our scouting group had been part of for over 20 years, announced at one of our meetings that they were no longer going to be chartering our scouting group. (February 2026 DEI was removed from scouting principles)
By the grace of God for not only me, but them as well, I was not at that meeting when the Pastor proceeded to tell our leaders and our kids how they could not support our organization anymore due to the moral standards our National Organization has chosen for our group. That’s the summary of the meeting, and my anger boils inside as I reflect on the things that were said to our kids. They basically told our kids that they belong to an organization that does not hold moral standards that are acceptable to the SBC and they can no longer reach us to spread the word of Jesus – So be gone. While they did allow ample time to find a new home, their presentation to our kids left me with a real sour taste in my mouth.
Who has morality issues? Who is hung up on sex? Is it the Scouts?
An ongoing topic within the SBC, is women in leadership. In 2023 the SBC re-introduced a motion that failed in 2022 with an amendment that approved a sixth point to Article III. It reads:
Affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder.
Last Tuesday Al Mohler – President of the SBC is quoted as saying “I think we reached a breaking point.” What is the breaking point? Women in leadership. How sad is this? His suggested solution is a bylaw amendment. You can read about it here: Breaking Point
Notice – law – not SPIRIT.
Wait, Scouting lacks morals because homosexuals are allowed to participate, yet the SBC wants to eliminate women from leadership? Who has a moral issue here?
Mohler wants the issue clarified. I can do that for him.
I can see the problem! The problem is SEX! The problem is the SEX of a woman!
You have lost the plot! You have lost Jesus in your leadership. You have lost Jesus in your thinking. You have lost Jesus in your bible. You have a problem with SEX! THE SEXES.The SEX of a woman. Us vrs Them. Jesus came for ALL. That is WOMEN and MEN. SEXES.
Women leaders are found consistently throughout the bible:
Deborah – Courageous Leadership
Esther – Brave Intervention
Miriam – Prophetic Praise
Huldah – Truthful Authority
Abigail – Wise Diplomacy
Pracsilla – Faithful Teaching
Lydia – Generous Hospitality
Mary Magdalene – Loyal Witness
Mary Mother of Jesus – Humble Obedience
Jael – Decisive Action
Ruth – Steadfast Loyalty
Naomi – Guiding Wisdom
And please don’t bring the arguments from Ephesians 5 about using your head!
We could present the Hebrew. We could present the Greek. Does it really matter? Jesus directly challenged hierarchical thinking and it can not be denied.
Know these verses well:
Mathew 20:25-28 – Jesus flips leadership upside down.
Mathew 19:30 and Luke 13:30 – The last will be first.
Mathew 23:8-12 – One teacher, One Father.
John 13-12-15 – Servant action.
John 4 and Mark 10 – Radical Equality in Access to God.
And 1 Timothy 2? This argument shall not be heard! We are done with that. We all know Paul was talking to a specific situation in the church at that time. We also know that the word “silence”, in that time frame was used to mean orderly learning. Wow – now there is a concept!
The law points to what is wrong.
Jesus says, you are in conflict, follow me.
The notion that WOMEN should not lead is not of Jesus.
If someone claims Jesus reinforced the idea that women should stay beneath men, they haven’t read the Gospels very closely. In a culture where women were sidelined, Jesus kept putting them front and center.
He teaches a Samaritan woman publicly crossing gender, ethnic, and moral boundaries in one conversation, and then uses her as the first evangelist to her town. He defends Mary for sitting at His feet like a disciple (a role reserved for men). He allows a woman to learn, to question, to engage – on equal footing.
When the stakes are highest, who stays? While many male disciples scatter, women remain at the cross. And who gets the first announcement of the resurrection? Not the religious elite. Not the Apostles.
WOMEN – commissioned to go and TELL.
Jesus never delivers a philosophical lecture on “gender equality.” He does something more disruptive:
He lives it.
He teaches women, trusts women, defends women, and sends women.
In a world built on hierarchy, that’s not subtle.
That’s a Breaking Point!