![]() ![]() (CHEERS)ĬHAKRABARTI: The ultra-conservative wing of the convention calls the vote nothing more than a reiteration of rules that have been in place since 2000. As many as are opposed, would you indicate, by raising your ballots? Would you lower them? The affirmative has it. 12,000 attendees voted to officially ban women from serving as pastors.Īs many as are in favor, would you indicate by raising your ballots? OK, you may lower them. Last week, members of the Southern Baptist Convention met in New Orleans. And it is to the Bible which the Southern Baptist Convention turns again and again, in justifying its ongoing prohibition of women who wish to serve their faith as pastors. Though the SBC no longer believes in a Biblical justification for slavery, the convention remains unmoved from its belief in the “unerring” words of the Bible. ![]() In 1995, the SBC officially apologized for its racist history, repudiating slavery as a “historic act of evil." One Virginia pastor in 1860 wrote: “Jesus Christ has not abolished slavery by a prohibitory command.” And that slavery was not a sin, but a gift, as he believed it brough millions of enslaved people “within the range of the gospel.” So the SBC brought the full force of the Gospel to its long support of slavery. Southern Baptists officially believe that the Bible tells the absolute truth “without any mixture of error." An edict that dates back to the mid-19th century. Its churches then supported racial segregation and the Confederacy during the Civil War. The SBC was first organized in 1845, in Augusta Georgia. ![]() It counts more than 13 million members, attending more than 47,000 churches in the convention, with an average in-person worship attendance of approximately 3.8 million. MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: The Southern Baptist Convention is the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Author of " Agents of Grace: How to Bridge Divides and Love as Jesus Loved." Transcript Assistant professor of faith and culture at Texas Baptist College. Director of The Land Center for Cultural Engagement at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Author of the op-ed " I’m one of the female pastors on the SBC’s hit list," published in the Baptist Global News.ĭaniel Darling, author, pastor and Christian leader. Her church voted unanimously to leave the SBC. GuestsĬarlisle Davidhizar, associate pastor for families and communities at the May Memorial Baptist Church in Powhaten, Virginia. Today, On Point: The Southern Baptist Convention, women of faith, and the future of a denomination with an already declining population. ![]() that they don't believe that I am called to the job that I believe God has called me to," associate pastor Carlisle Davidhizar says. had such an impact on my childhood kind of say out loud that. "There is still something sort of sad about seeing the denomination that. But it’s already having a big impact on congregants. The total ban on women in leadership won’t take effect until another majority vote next year by the convention's members. It also recently expelled a handful of churches for having female pastors. The Southern Baptist Convention – the nation's largest Protestant denomination – overwhelmingly voted to oust women from church leadership. Facebook Email Second Baptist Church, Cypress Campus is pictured in Houston, Texas on February 12, 2019. ![]()
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