David Dockery offers a report on Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Texas Baptist College at the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.
Among the biggest of today’s news, messengers have voted not to adopt the Law Amendment, which would have added to the SBC Constitution: “Affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.”
During the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting, Kevin Ezell, NAMB president, shared that 35 out of 41 of our state conventions saw baptism gains in 2023.
Brent Leatherwood, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, affirmed that his commission was doing the good work the SBC expected of them during his address at the Annual Meeting.
Eight resolutions were adopted by messengers attending the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.
Media representatives from across the nation gathered to ask questions and hear from Clint Pressley following the conclusion of the SBC Annual Meeting on June 12.
During a press conference Wednesday afternoon (June 12), members of the Committee on Resolutions spoke after eight resolutions were adopted by messengers to the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting.
In addition to electing North Carolina pastor as Southern Baptist Convention president, messengers to the annual meeting June 11–12 in Indianapolis elected a slate of other leaders.
Sandy Wisdom-Martin, executive director of national Woman’s Missionary Union, and Connie Dixon, WMU president, gave the WMU report at the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.
In a highly anticipated vote on the final day of this year’s SBC Annual Meeting, messengers narrowly defeated the proposed Law Amendment which specified that only men can serve “as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.”
