Southern Baptists Remove Churches with Women Pastors, Sometimes.


The Southern Baptist Convention is as association of churches, not a "denomination" in the sense of Catholics or Methodists. So, when it passes a "rule" or declares "the Bible says (means) this" there emerge various responses. All of its theology and "rules" come from motions passed at its national convention. There are officials, employees of the organization as well as Presidents of its seminaries, who write position papers discussing what the various motions passed at the convention mean in practice.

The convention has passed a rule that women cannot be "pastors." Yet, little has been done to define who or what is a "pastor." Apparently, when the Convention's dues are sent in by each church each year a little information is collected but not much. It says in the link   that there have been churches with female preachers that might have carried a different title but in reality, were "pastors." No fuss was raised about these. The big kerfuffle came when one of the most famous preachers/authors in the U.S., Rick Warren, who headed several California churches under the name Saddleback Church, ordained some female pastors. The roof came down. The Convention kicked out Warren's churches. He did not care.

Neither the Soutern  Baptist, Catholic nor Missouri Synod Lutherans can hold out against women being pastors. They can either bend on the issue or slowly die.

 

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