The question I hear most frequently in the days following a significant convention governance or relationship vote is some variation of, “What’s going to happen?”
“The Southern Baptist Convention has been taking it on the chin this week, and I’ve heard it from several different directions. So I felt led to defend the SBC.”
There are moments in history when a cry rises that cannot be ignored.
Truth and unity are not enemies. They belong together. Unity without truth becomes drift. Truth without unity becomes fragmentation. Southern Baptists need both.
Let’s chat about Al Mohler’s “truth and unity” amendment coming to the floor of the SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando. If you are attending the meeting and planning to vote as a messenger, I encourage you to read the amendment’s wording carefully and consider all aspects of what it means before casting your vote.
The concern with this proposed SBC constitution amendment is whether the amendment’s prohibitive language unnecessarily expands beyond the pastoral office itself into a broad and undefined expression of “function” that could potentially lead to unnecessary and unbiblical limitations for women engaging ministerially in the local church and in local and global mission.
Griffin Gulledge of The Baptist Review shares thoughts on Mohler Amendment.
I’m still in a little bit of denial. I can’t believe it is over. Our now 18-year-old daughter Laura recently played her last competitive soccer
“You should have been aborted!” The Harvard student yelled this in my face while I was visiting the campus for a forum on abortion in the black community. It wasn’t the first time someone had said this to me, and it wouldn’t be the last.
Our world changed in August 2024. A neighbor called to say, “Your wife is lying on the pavement.”
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