The investigation's findings were released last month and allege that the denomination's leadership mishandled sexual abuse allegations, mistreated victims and advocates, engaged in an abusive pattern of intimidation and repeatedly resisted reforms aimed at making their churches safer largely to avoid liability. Guidepost Solutions was commissioned to "review and enhance training provided to SBC Executive Committee staff and its board of trustees" and the organization's "communications to cooperating churches and congregants in cooperating churches." The SBC Executive Committee announced on June 11, 2021, that Guidepost Solutions, chosen by the SBC Sexual Abuse Task Force, would review allegations made by the former SBC Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission President Russell Moore that SBC leaders intimidated whistleblowers and exonerated churches with credible claims they mishandled sexual abuse allegations. They don't hold a biblical worldview and their recommendations reflect that," Buck tweeted Monday, pointing to Guidepost's gay pride tweet. Not sure their voice should be listened to by any Christian organization. "Hey, SBC! You might want to consider this as you contemplate adopting the solutions they offer our convention. Tom Buck, the outspoken senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Lindale, Texas, publicly questioned whether the SBC should adopt the solutions offered by the firm to address sexual abuse. "It undermines my confidence in any proposed future relationship between any SBC entity and Guidepost Solutions." " Amos 3:3 asks, 'Can two walk together unless they agree?' Given the disparity of conviction on the issue of human sexuality, I don't believe in this situation we can, or should, walk together," Davis said. "Guidepost Solutions' recently tweeted value statement on human sexuality is in sharp contrast to the Bible's family and marriage values and our confessional statements summarized by the Baptist Faith and Message," Davis said in his statement cited by the Baptist Reflector. The sexual abuse investigation, which cost more than $2 million, was funded by allocations from the Cooperative Program. The Cooperative Program is the SBC's unified plan of giving through which cooperating SBC churches give a percentage of their undesignated receipts in support of their respective state convention, SBC missions and ministries. i6DKiX36nm- Guidepost Solutions June 6, 2022 We celebrate our collective progress toward equality for all and are proud to be an ally to our LGBTQ+ community. Guidepost is committed to strengthening diversity, equity and inclusion and strives to be an organization where our team can bring their authentic selves to work. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, denounced the company's statement and urged SBC entities receiving funding from the denomination's Cooperative Program to "immediately break ties with Guidepost Solutions." "We celebrate our collective progress toward equality for all and are proud to be an ally to our LGBTQ+ community."Īs the secular firm's tweet made the rounds on social media, Randy C. "Guidepost is committed to strengthening diversity, equity and inclusion and strives to be an organization where our team can bring their authentic selves to work," the firm declared in a tweet Monday. Guidepost Solutions, the investigative firm that recently produced a report on how the Southern Baptist Convention's leadership mishandled sexual abuse allegations, is coming under fire from high-profile leaders in the denomination over a tweet supporting LGBT pride. Nearly 9,000 Southern Baptist messengers at the 2019 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting on June 11, 2019, vote to pass an amendment regarding churches and sexual abuse.