Rick Warren, founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Southern California, responds to Southern Baptists' refusal to let the megachurch back into the denomination for having women pastors during a news conference on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, in New Orleans. In his own statement, Warren said the next generation won’t care about “arcane procedures and political infighting.”
“She’s grown up in this denomination and so have her parents, and her dreams have been to pastor in the denomination that she loved.” “It’s just such a sad, sad thing for her,” Barnes Popham said. And now I can’t do that in the family that I love.” Still, the fallout will be felt for generations, Barnes Popham indicated, recalling how a 14-year-old girl sought her out in the crowd and “wept and wept” in her arms, telling her, “I’m 14 years old, and when I was 11, God called me to be a minister. “On the other hand, there is something liberating and freeing, being bound no more to the traditions and opinions and the power of those in leadership in the Southern Baptist Convention.” Linda Barnes Popham, the pastor of Fern Creek Baptist, told “CNN This Morning” Thursday her church would “continue to lift high the gospel of Jesus Christ,” but the expulsion felt like a divorce. Fern Creek Baptist’s appeal was similarly rejected, with 9,700 voting in favor of upholding the decision and 806 voting against. Voters were unconvinced: Per the Baptist Press, 9,437 votes were cast in favor of upholding the decision, compared to 1,212 against. Three more women were ordained as pastors at Saddleback that year, according to Baptist Press. He appealed to the representatives to “act like Southern Baptists who have historically ‘agreed to disagree’ on dozens of doctrines in order to share a common mission,” per The New York Times, which reported Warren appointed a husband and wife to succeed him after his retirement in 2021. Warren was among those who asked the SBC to reverse the February decision on Tuesday. The Baptist Press, which describes itself as the SBC’s official news service, reported Saddleback was found “not to be in friendly cooperation” with the SBC’s “statement of faith,” which says in part that “the office of pastor is limited to men.” The amendment must pass by a two-thirds vote two years in a row, with Wednesday’s vote marking its first. The vote to uphold those removals came just a few hours before a two-thirds majority of the Southern Baptist Convention – the largest Protestant denomination in the United States – separately voted to approve an amendment to its constitution that would more broadly prohibit churches from having women hold any pastoral title. Southern Baptist Convention votes to uphold removal of Saddleback Church over women pastors after appeal by Rick Warren
(Scott Clause/The Daily Advertiser via AP) Scott Clause/The Daily Advertiser/AP Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Tuesday, June 13, 2023.
Delegates hold up their ballots at the Southern Baptist Convention at the New Orleans Ernest N.
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