The Southern Baptist Convention has voted to enforce a doctrine for male-only pastors, rejecting an impassioned appeal from the Rev. Rick Warren to reinstate his megachurch, which an SBC governing panel expelled in February for employing a female “teaching pastor.”
Delegates at the SBC annual business meeting in New Orleans on Tuesday voted 9,437 to 1,212 to expel Saddleback Church, after Mr. Warren had pleaded for the reinstatement of the congregation he founded in Southern California.
The results of the Tuesday votes were announced Wednesday morning on the concluding day of the SBC’s two-day annual meeting of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, whose statement of faith asserts that only qualified men can serve as pastors. “We don’t throw divorce parties,” Mr. Barber said. “Whatever the results are, behave like Christians.”“We made this effort knowing we weren’t going to win,” said Mr. Warren, author of the best-selling book “The Purpose Driven Life.”
Addressing the delegates before Tuesday’s vote, Mr. Warren said: “For 178 years, the SBC has been a blend of at least a dozen different tribes of Baptists. If you think every Baptist thinks like you, you’re mistaken. But we share a mutual commitment to the inerrancy and infallibility of God’s Word, and to the Great Commission of Jesus.”
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