that women should no longer serve as pastors of local churches. According to the committee's proposed statement of belief, which was made public on May 18, "While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by scripture."...
Bro. Tom Elliff has been such an encouragement to us in the SBC of Virginia fellowship. He has preached in our services, prayed for us, been a member of an SBCV church, served as a missionary, pastor, and IMB president. One of my most recent times with Bro. Tom was when he spent ...
Following his report, Dockery fielded a question from Kyle Sullivan, a messenger from First Baptist Church of Paris, Kentucky, seeking Dockery’s “insight” about why seminaries have “record enrollment” but there is a continual “need” for pastors to lead congregations due to a “shortage...
Church has not been kind to me. It is hard to feel comfortable in any church when you were sexually abused in one for nearly two years. It is difficult to trust any pastor when memories of the abusive ones interfere. Yet the men and women of the ERLC, especially Dr. Moore, showed m...
It was absolutely the right thing to do (the SBC has disfellowshipped several churches that embrace homosexuality), and I’m glad that this standard remains in tact, but…lesbian co-pastors…?That’show bad it has to get before the SBC can, or will, act to remove a church? What about...
In anearly morning Twitter threadFriday, May 13, Tom Ascol, senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, Fla., called the ERLC a “rogue entity” and called on the ERLC trustees to take action. “I urge Southern Baptists to call on their trustees to immediat...
After the election, another sea-change took place, when JD Greear was elected as SBC President. He is an inerrantist whose church sends more missionaries to the field than any other church. He is a great example of a young Southern Baptist, but he takes a different approach to a number...