Of 50 motions presented during the SBC Annual Meeting, one passed, seven were rejected, eight were ruled out of order and 33 were referred to various SBC entities or the Executive Committee.
Five years into his tenure as president of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College, Jamie Dew said serving there has been “the greatest honor and the greatest joy” of his family’s life.
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Jason Allen said the institution continues to grow in enrollment, facilities and initiatives to help students financially and academically.
In his first report to the SBC Annual Meeting as president of Gateway Seminary, Adam Groza said the seminary has experienced a year of transition, celebration and growth.
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.”
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.
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