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Episode #420
This week’s EC meeting was one for the history books. Amy and Jonathan unpack the decisions made and what those decisions mean for the future of the SBC and provide a look back at the history of Article III of the SBC Constitution and how we got here.
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This Week in SBC History
This Week – A look at Article III
1845 – “shall consist of members who contribute funds” — after that, it’s basically about $$$ for the first one hundred years
1925 – Baptist Faith and Message and Cooperative Program
1948 – “for each regular Baptist church which is in friendly cooperation with this Convention and sympathetic with its purposes and work“
1992 – TC Pinckney proposes constitutional amendment at an EC meeting- “Homosexuality was being promoted and was making progress … and we wanted to protect the Southern Baptist Convention from [a] nickel and dime whittling away of standards and promoting acceptance of homosexuality” – http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/7395,19-Feb-1992.PDF
1993 – Constitutional amendment passes for the second time and goes in
“Is in friendly cooperation with the Convention and sympathetic with its purposes and work. Among churches not in cooperation with the Convention are churches which act to affirm, approve, or endorse homosexual behavior.”
1999 – T.C. Pinckney proposes Baptist Faith and Message committee
2000 – Baptist Faith and Message – clear at the time that it was “not binding on local congregations”
Acknowledgement of female pastors, including Fern Creek – https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/sbc-life-articles/sbc-and-women-pastors/
2004 – starts showing up in state conventions
Michigan, Florida: changed bylaws to say they could expel congregations that did not adhere to the BFM; other states followed suit, also some local associations
2007 – Garner motion – https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/bfm-motion-grabs-attention-at-sbc/
2014 – new proposal for cooperating standards, primarily financial, about upping the minimum giving standards… BUT it adds the BFM 2000
Original: Has not intentionally operated in any manner demonstrating opposition to the doctrine expressed in the Convention’s most recently adopted statement of faith. (By way of example, churches which act to affirm, approve, or endorse homosexual behavior would be deemed not to be in cooperation with the Convention.)
Text gets changed to: “Has a faith and practice which closely identifies with the Convention’s adopted statement of faith. (By way of example, churches which act to affirm, approve, or endorse homosexual behavior would be deemed not to be in cooperation with the Convention.)”
2017 – constitutional amendment to add racism is declined – https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/ec-wrap-up-cp-escrowing-by-churches-draws-study/
2018 – Raleigh White Baptist Church – https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/ec-disfellowships-ga-church-honors-mohler/
2019 – Constitutional amendments and Bylaw 8
Round 1 amendments – https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/wrap-up-sex-abuse-prevention-tops-sbc-exec-comm-agenda/
Possible revision – https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/sbc-ec-may-revise-sex-abuse-prevention-proposal/
Final version moves forward – https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/sexual-abuse-racism-votes-move-to-sbc-messengers/
2020 – Mohler article on women pastors in the SBC – https://albertmohler.com/2020/08/14/briefing-8-14-20
2021 – Saddleback Motion in Nashville
Tom Ascol calls for credentials committee submissions: https://twitter.com/tomascol/status/1391532666399432705?s=20
Mohler Article – https://albertmohler.com/2021/05/10/women-pastors-women-preachers-and-the-looming-test-of-the-southern-baptist-convention
2022 – Credentials committee report in Anaheim – https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/credentials-committee-withdraws-recommendation-related-to-saddleback-continues-work/
Mike Law motion – https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/barber-wellman-issue-statement-on-proposed-constitutional-amendment/
Lifeway trustee meeting & Send Network gathering recaps
SBC25 kickoff event held in DFW
Collegiate Week recap & SBDR still at work after Debby
SBDR responding to hurricane and flooding; SBC Serve Sunday
IMB Olympic outreach in full swing
ERLC leadership confusion & a fire at First Baptist Dallas
Southern Baptist ethnic research leader dies in drowning accident
Hurricane Beryl hits Texas and an interview with Jonathan Howe
Trail Life and an interview with Mark Hancock
Wildfires in New Mexico and an interview with Nathan Finn
SBC Annual Meeting in review
SBC Annual Meeting on the horizon
Resolutions and a conversation with the Cooperation Group
Queen indicted in federal investigation
Billy Graham statue unveiled; IMB commissions 83 missionaries
ACP results show spike in baptisms, growth in attendance
Cooperation Group releases report and recommendations
Clyde Meador dies; CoC named, CoN releases report
Groza elected Gateway president; Spencer to be nominated for SBC president
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