Former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, J.D. Greear, has backed the National African American Fellowship’s challenge to a recent vote by SBC messengers to ban women from serving as a "pastor of any kind" as an "unnecessary infringement upon the autonomy of the local church."
Former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, J.D. Greear, has backed the National African American Fellowship’s challenge to a recent vote by SBC messengers to ban women from serving as a "pastor of any kind" as an "unnecessary infringement upon the autonomy of the local church."
Any discussion concerning women serving as pastors in Southern Baptist churches must be informed by “past decisions” made by the Southern Baptist Convention, two key SBC figures said Wednesday.
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More than 700 Southern Baptist pastors are calling on the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) to prohibit women from serving “as a pastor of any kind” at SBC-affiliated churches.