Ronnie Floyd, president and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee, speaks on various disputed motions during the June 14, 2021, Executive Committee meeting at the Music City Center in Nashville, Tenn. | Karen McCutcheon
NASHVILLE, Tenn. â As the Southern Baptist Convention grapples with a slew of hot-button issues, Ronnie Floyd, president of the SBC's Executive Committee, stressed to the thousands gathered at the annual meeting that sending missionaries out into the world is at the âheartâ of the denomination.Â
âSending missionaries is the heart of the Southern Baptist Convention,â Floyd, a past president of the SBC and former senior pastor of Cross Church in Northwest Arkansas told the more than 15,000 SBC messengers gathered on Tuesday.Â