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“I believe that our statement of faith does a masterful job of calling all believers to active Christian service while maintaining biblical roles for men and women.” - Bart Barber
Barber highlights changes, plans for SBC annual meeting
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“In his report to the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee Feb. 19, Bart Barber outlined new efforts to implement what he believes messengers have called on SBC leadership to do as the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting approaches.” - Baptist Paper
Bart Barber regrets his role in the Kentucky sexual abuse legal brief
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“Knowing what I know now, I know that I should have asked more questions. I should have taken the opportunity to request a meeting between the Interim CEO, myself, and our legal counsel to gather more information.” - C.Index
SBC president seeks committee recommendations from rank and file Southern Baptists
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“Southern Baptists wanting to provide input on who should be nominated for the four committees filled by the SBC president have an avenue by which to do so.” - BPNews
SBC's Barber forms cooperation group to address “the unprecedented things that we are doing”
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“Those ‘unprecedented things’ include hearing the appeals of three churches declared by the Executive Committee to not be in friendly cooperation, a declaration messengers upheld in June. Two of those churches were so deemed due to their placing women in pastoral roles.” - BPNews
SBC messengers reelect Texas pastor Bart Barber to a second term as president
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“Barber received 7,531 votes, 68% of the 11,014 vote total, beating out Georgia Baptist pastor Mike Stone…who received 3,458 votes, or 31%.” - RNS
Related: Bart Barber in a Landslide - SBC Voices
SBC presidential candidates Mike Stone, Bart Barber discuss Guidepost, Saddleback, other issues
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“Mike Stone is promising to stand up against what he describes as a ‘cancel culture’ within the Southern Baptist Convention if he’s elected SBC president…. Bart Barber says he wants to finish tasks he began after being elected to the post a year ago.” - C.Index
‘It Has Been a Controversial Year for the SBC’—Barber Reflects on 2022
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“Bart Barber provided his Twitter followers with some personal reflections on 2022 in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.” - CLeaders
SBC President Bart Barber says predecessor Johnny Hunt is unfit to return to ministry
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“ ‘I would permanently “defrock” Johnny Hunt if I had the authority to do so,’ Barber, who leads a church in Farmersville, Texas, said in a statement released Tuesday.” - RNS
Bobby Ross, Jr. gathers thoughts from SBC's Bart Barber on Christian Nationalism
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“I’ve avoided using the term ‘Christian nationalism’ that you’ve asked about because there’s no carefully agreed-upon definition. And I’ve seen how destructive it is just to pick a label, not do much work to define carefully what that is and then start going after people.” - GetReligion
