A top Southern Baptist administrative body has selected its first permanent leader in nearly two-and-a-half years, a time when it has navigated a tumult of...
At a meeting Thursday in Dallas, Jeff Iorg was elected the executive committee’s body during a period when the denomination has faced a sexual abuse scandal, financial problems and other challenges.
Jeff Iorg, the longtime president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s only seminary outside of the denomination’s historic Bible Belt heartland, is the incoming president and CEO of the denomination’s Executive Committee. He was elected unanimously Thursday by committee members meeting in Dallas.Iorg has been president of Gateway Seminary since 2004.
“Leadership matters, and Dr. Iorg is a leader among leaders,” said Philip Robertson, chairman of the committee, which handles day-to-day business for the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. In May 2023, the committee voted down a nomination of its own chairman, Jared Wellman, to be president, after some had urged the committee instead to consider Willie McLaurin, its interim president. McLaurin, who led the committee for more than a year after Floyd’s departure, was the first African American leader of any SBC entity.
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