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.
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.”
Emerging from a field of six candidates, North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley has been elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention during its annual meeting in Indianapolis (June 11–12).
Bart Barber used his final speech as SBC president to encourage messengers to bear one another’s weaknesses and to show love to leave a lasting, godly impact.
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