Retired pastor Rick Warren, author of “The Purpose Driven Life,” is intensifying a media blitz in what he acknowledges may be a lost cause.
for having women pastors. Three other churches ousted over the same issue are not appealing.
Wood has said Saddleback does maintain male authority with an all-men board of elders but that they can equip women for ministry — most recently in May when Katie Edwards, one of the three women ordained in 2021, was named campus pastor of the flagship Lake Forest campus. The Executive Committee — which runs the day-to-day business of the denomination — recommended Monday that the full annual meeting reject a constitutional amendment that would add churches with women pastors to that list, saying there's already a mechanism to expel them for not identifying with the SBC faith statement.
“We’re at a cultural moment in which this issue of men’s and women’s roles is very confused,” he added. “We have an opportunity to speak clearly into this moment.” Those reforms, though criticized by victims’ advocates as too small, are also facing pushback from others, in part over a Guidepost tweet last year that it is “an ally to our LGBTQ+ community.” The denomination’s statement of faith opposes homosexuality.
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