Why I'm Meeting With Donald Trump

by Rod D. Martin
June 10, 2016

As you have probably read by now, Donald Trump has invited a number of Evangelical leaders to meet with him in New York shortly after the Southern Baptist Convention. Among the organizers of this conversation are many good friends of mine and some of our very finest people, including Dr. Ronnie Floyd, our SBC President, Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council, and Dr. Jim Dobson, who surely needs no introduction.

No one attending this meeting has endorsed Donald Trump; nor have any of us joined the #NeverTrump movement. There are reasons for both of these things, and reasons why we believe this meeting matters.

First, as Ronnie would say, what’s done is done. Barring an act of God, the major party nominees are set, and one of them will become President of the United States. As many of you know, I personally supported only Southern Baptist candidates for President this year. But unfortunately, they lost, and this is where we are.

It would be eas…