The executive committee of the ERLC board of trustees announced this morning (July 23) that the action taken late yesterday by then-trustee chair Kevin Smith was not authorized. The board has stated full support of Brent Leatherwood.
Southern Baptist leaders were quick to respond in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday (July 13).
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.”
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.
During a press conference Wednesday afternoon (June 12), members of the Committee on Resolutions spoke after eight resolutions were adopted by messengers to the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting.
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