Tennessee Baptist Mission Board directors recommend same Cooperative Program allocation budget for coming year but propose change in distribution formula — a move away from what has been advocated for at the SBC level for the past 15 years.
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.”
Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting voted June 11 to disaffiliate with First Baptist Church Alexandria, Virginia, by a ballot vote of 6,759 (91.78 percent) to 563 (7.65 percent).
The six presidential candidates were invited to address the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Conference of Associational Leaders tonight (June 9) at the Indiana Convention Center.
Virginia pastor Mike Law addresses his proposed amendment to the SBC Constitution. The amendment comes up for its second of two consecutive votes by messengers in June at the SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.
“The same God who delivered victory for the Israelites is the same God who continues to carry us through whatever we may be facing.” —Jonathan Howe
Legal Strategies Committee chair Josh Hetzler of Virginia assured EC members they are working “expeditiously” and understand the “urgency” of the matter.
SBC EC trustees said they want to ensure they have carefully thought through the requests before finalizing a decision on how to proceed.
Filling this role is obviously a God-sized task and as Southern Baptists, we need to pray God’s wisdom for leaders within the EC as they seek God’s man for “a time such as this.” There’s really nothing “people” can do.
A former Presbyterian minister has been chosen to serve as director of urban church planting for the North American Mission Board’s Send Network.
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