Nashville, Tenn. | Southern Baptist Convention President Bart Barber named fellow Texas pastor Jared Wellman to chair the group studying “friendly cooperation” as a standard for church membership in the denomination. “I am concerned about the way that we’re defining friendly cooperation,” Barber said in an exclusive interview with the Illinois Baptist just ahead of […]
SBC
Objections over ‘pastor’ limitation
Nashville, Tenn. | A network of 4,000 Black churches within the Southern Baptist Convention has called for a season of prayer and dialogue after an action by messengers prohibited application of the term “pastor” to women serving in any ministry capacity. Their challenge has received support from former SBC President J.D. Greear. In a July […]
Sanchez discusses Constitutional amendment on office of pastor
Texas pastor Juan Sanchez believes Southern Baptists can walk and chew gum at the same. Sanchez led the way for messengers at the 2023 SBC Annual Meeting to affirm the first reading of an amendment to the SBC Constitution that would include a statement saying only men can serve in the role of pastor or […]
Lifeway targets next-gen, non-South states with new resources
Ben Mandrell has said publicly and repeatedly that as pastor of an SBC church in metro Denver, he did not use Lifeway resources for his discipleship ministry. The teaching materials of the time were born out of deep South culture and presumed biblical literacy on the part of the student. That wasn’t the case in […]
Quiet campaign with loud outcome
Before the convention started, few people were making predictions about the outcome of the presidential election. Certainly, the word “landslide” was not in the ether, because so many things about the annual gathering were uncertain—starting with the presidency. Incumbent Bart Barber was being challenged after serving only the first year of a customary two terms […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- …
- 68
- Next Page »