The Rev. Rick Warren, founding pastor of one of the Southern Baptist Convention's largest congregations -- until its expulsion for installing a woman as a teaching pastor -- says the nation's largest Protestant denomination is 'at the crossroads [of...
“Over the course of 17 years, the denomination has lost 3 million members. This isn’t a glitch or the result of a pandemic: It’s a trajectory we’ve been on for a while,” Mr. Warren, founder of Saddleback Church, said in
The megachurch founder’s critique of the SBC comes as Saddleback prepares to appeal its expulsion from the denomination at the June 12-13 annual business meeting. The SBC expelled the Southern California church in February over its employment of a woman as a “teaching pastor.” He said he rejects “complementarianism,” a theological position that rejects women from ordained ministry, and “egalitarianism,” which in evangelical Christian circles includes support for women exercising spiritual leadership as clergy.
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