Christianity Today reporting the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee's February 2023 determination that Saddleback Church and Fern Creek Baptist Church, both of which had women serving as pastors, were not in friendly cooperation with the Convention under the Baptist Faith and Message's Article VI restriction of the pastoral office to men; messengers at the June 2023 annual meeting in New Orleans upheld the removals by wide margins, Saddleback at 88.46 percent and Fern Creek at 91.85 percent.
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A specialist evangelical news magazine, editorially independent of the Southern Baptist Convention though covering evangelical institutions closely. The February 2023 Executive Committee action and the June 2023 messenger vote margins are corroborated against the Baptist Courier's and Christian Standard's own contemporaneous reporting of the same annual meeting before citing. NotesCited for the February and June 2023 disfellowshipping of Saddleback Church and Fern Creek Baptist Church over women serving as pastor.
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PublisherChristianity Today
Publication Year2023
URLhttps://www.christianitytoday.com/2023/02/saddleback-church-southern-baptist-sbc-disfellowship-female/
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Southern Baptist Convention Disfellowships Saddleback Church (Christianity Today) names Baptist by its exact full name: ristianity Today reporting the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee's Februa
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