The Resolutions Committee has released a list of this year’s proposed resolutions that will go before messengers during the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Indianapolis (June 11-12). This marks a change in process that allows messengers more time to review the resolutions before the meeting.
To see the list of 10 proposed resolutions, click here. The committee noted that more than two dozen resolutions were submitted this year for consideration.
Among this year’s topics highlighted in the resolutions are “integrity in SBC leadership,” defending religious liberty, support for Israel, “pro-life ethic in a post-Roe society,” In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), parental rights, and evangelism and the Great Commission.
‘Emerging, urgent’ topics
Committee chair Kristen Ferguson noted, “these resolutions represent what we believe to be Southern Baptist resolve on emerging and urgent topics of our day.”
“Our committee was united in prayer and in the crafting of these resolutions,” she said in a statement to Baptist Press, “and we submit them to Southern Baptists for discussion, consideration, and adoption at our annual meeting.”
Changes to this year’s resolutions process
In an effort to allow more time to review proposed resolutions, messengers approved changes to Bylaw 20 during last year’s annual meeting in New Orleans, which moved the timeline for submitting resolutions and working on resolutions and publishing a preliminary report.
This year, messengers were able to submit resolutions as early as April 1 and no less than 20 days prior (May 22) to this year’s meeting. The committee was mandated to submit a preliminary report 10 days before the convention.
SBC President Bart Barber noted during the Executive Committee’s meeting in February, “You’ll have a chance to reflect upon those, think upon those and … you’ll have the chance to pray about those and seek that the Holy Spirit will lead us to agreement about these matters of what we want to say.”
For more information, go to sbc.net/resolutions.
