SBC

“Conference President: ‘She’s not preaching’ ” - Church Leaders

Related: SBC pastors threaten boycott over inclusion of female teaching pastor Hosanna Wong at conference

Goals include “Protection of the Hyde Amendment, which has barred Medicaid funding of abortion since 1976 … Enactment of the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act, which would bar the government from discriminating against adoption agencies and other child welfare entities that refuse to serve in a way that contradicts their beliefs….Defunding Planned Parenthood” - BPNews

“Attention turns to a committee that could identify offending churches, a new measure put in place following the landmark Houston Chronicle series.” - Christianity Today

“The Southern Baptist Convention will be observing its annual ‘Racial Reconciliation Sunday’ on Feb. 9, with this year’s emphasis being on the cultivation of multiethnic churches.” - Christian Post

“The [Founder’s Ministries film, ‘By What Standard?’] begins with the vote on a controversial resolution at the 2019 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Resolution 9 passed, so the SBC adopted CRT/I as ‘analytical tools [that] can aid in evaluating a variety of human experiences.’” - WORLD

“We will see next month what the SBC Executive Committee does with their in-house Credentials Committee that has a process for receiving complaints about churches. I’m presuming that someone filed a complaint about the church at which Paige Patterson is scheduled to speak.

“Adams said that if elected, he would aim to focus on the SBC’s Great Commission efforts, rebuilding trust among the Convention’s churches, entities and other organizations, reported the Northwest Baptist Witness….The only other nominee for the SBC presidency thus far is R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.” - BPNews

Ahead: Leadership changes, credentials committee activity, lawsuits, local church autonomy, politics… SBC Voices

“Does Local Church Autonomy keep the Southern Baptist Convention from dealing with its sexual abuse crisis or even from realizing the extent of that crisis?” - SBC Voices

“Fundamentalists may think that issues like these outside our movement will impact us little. However, it is in no one’s best interest to see the SBC surrender the ground gained in the Conservative Resurgence to cultural liberalism.” - P & D