When more than 12,000 Southern Baptist messengers gather in New Orleans on Tuesday and Wednesday for the 2023 annual meeting they will tackle a host of issues that some say will shape the evangelical denomination in the future.
, a third-party investigator, which was condemned for a tweet supporting the LGBTQ+ community during Pride Month.
“There’s a lot of serious issues to walk through next week,” said Maina Mwaura, an Atlanta-based reporter for Baptist News Global and author. It’s been a roller coast ride, Burge said, where the SBC “got to the top, sat there for a second, slowly started to decline then accelerated. In the last three years it lost 1.3 million members.”
In February, the SBC California’s Saddleback Church: and Fern Creek Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky. wereBoth churches are appealing. “It shouldn’t be after all these years..,” she said. “Members of that organization are trying to maintain that stance. They call it complementarianism, but its still keeping women subservient to men,” Walker said.
Among those named was Georgia Pastor Johnny Hunt, a former SBC president, who allegedly sexually assaulted the wife of a former pastor. Hunt said it was consensual and is suing the denomination, the executive committee and Guidepost Solutions alleging defamation and invasion of privacy.
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