Thousands of Southern Baptists voted to affirm the expulsion of Saddleback Church, the epitome for decades of a modern conservative evangelical megachurch, because Saddleback Pastor Rick Warren ordained women, Southern Baptist Convention officials said.
On Tuesday, Warren and Rev. Linda Barnes Popham, of Fern Creek Baptist Church outside Louisville, each made three-minute pleas to the 12,700 SBC “messengers,” or church representatives, at the group’s annual meeting in New Orleans.
The SBC hadn’t voted on the topic of female pastors in more than two decades, but its right wing has been working assiduously in recent years to draw brighter lines on gender, and to enforce them.The issue of a woman serving as a church’s pastor “is one of fundamental biblical authority that does violate both the doctrine and the order of the SBC. It’s inescapable,” prominent theologian Albert Mohler said to applause.
Warren’s argument Tuesday followed the lines of a multimedia campaign that he unleashed in recent weeks, arguing that Southern Baptists are supposed to be autonomous with respect for different practices as they work together to spread the Gospel. He noted there is diversity of belief and practice around topics including exactly how salvation works, and whether SBC churches should give Communion only to members.
During her appeal, Barnes Popham said the rejection of the churches is evidence of Satan. “He is tearing this convention apart. He loves all those deeds done in darkness. He loves seeing religious leaders sitting on protected and padded pontifical thrones, being consumed by tradition, opinions, power and non-salvific issues.
The SBC membership are very conservative, and there is no substantive push for women to have full access to the clergy. The debate is more over what members believe scripture intends to say about what womendo.
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