Many were surprised that Saddleback - the denomination’s second-largest congregation - was among those dropped. The denomination prohibits women from serving as the senior or lead pastor. were removed from the denomination for allowing women to preach or serve as lead pastors. In February, the SBC California’s Saddleback Church and Fern Creek Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky. This year, it’s likely to be women in the pulpit. Last year, the sex abuse scandal dominated the headlines before the annual meeting in Anaheim. They’re not listening to you, Burge said. “It’s harder and harder to get younger people in the door anymore. Two of the biggest factors are the number of people who aren’t affiliated with a particular religion, may be agnostic or atheists and the growth of nondenominational churches, said Burge. In the last three years it lost 1.3 million members.” It’s been a roller coast ride, Burge said, where the SBC “got to the top, sat there for a second, slowly started to decline then accelerated. The SBC is the nation’s largest Protestant denomination with roughly 13 million members, down from a peak of more than 16 million in 2006, said Burge, who has tracked membership in the SBC.Īccording to the Georgia Baptist Convention, there are more than 1.2 million Southern Baptists in the state and 3,400 local autonomous churches. You can’t ignore secular culture and they are ignoring culture.” I truly think that if they’re not careful there will be no boat back to the mainline. “This will decide whether they stand on the island alone or whether they want others. “There’s a lot of serious issues to walk through next week,” said Maina Mwaura, an Atlanta-based reporter for Baptist News Global and author.
Yet Barber has also led the way on sexual abuse reforms. Barber is also a conservative and thinks that homosexuality a sin and abortion is wrong. Stone is running against Bart Barber, the current president and Texas pastor.
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