SBC Pastor Compares Following Mask Mandates to "Picking Up Your Cross"

JT Inglish, lead pastor of Storyline Church in Arvada, Colorado, has been appointed to serve on the SBC’s Committee on Committees for the 2025 annual meeting. This influential position helps shape the future leadership of the denomination, making it all the more concerning given Inglish’s past rhetoric.

In 2020, amid the height of COVID mandates, Inglish took the pulpit to scold those who resisted mask requirements, saying: "If it's that hard for you to pick up a mask, how are you ever gonna pick up a cross?... if you're so frustrated about what's happening here, then you don't understand the power of God to save. You're actually following a political ideology, not the king of the world."

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