The Southern Baptist Convention has ousted Saddleback Church because of its female pastors. Benjamin Cole, the Baptist Blogger, explains how this represents the SBC's drift to the right.
, a rare success story in a time of declining church membership, has not been met with uniform enthusiasm among the SBC’s roughly 47,000 member churches.
The Southern Baptist Convention decided Tuesday to oust Saddleback Church, the second-largest congregation of the convention, because it has a female pastor. Benjamin Cole is a former Southern Baptist pastor in Texas who has been attending Southern Baptist conventions for nearly 30 years. “Southern Baptists have always been more concerned about distributing life jackets to people who are drowning than straitjackets,” he said. “And what the convention is now being forced to answer is whether or not we will pass out straitjackets to our churches rather than life jackets to the communities around us in need of hope.”How did Saddleback come to be removed from the SBC?
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