The ban on women in a lesser pastoral roles won support of 61 percent of the convention but required a two-thirds vote.
From left, Nikki Hardeman and Meredith Stone, of Baptist Women in Ministry, and Christa Brown, an advocate for survivors of sexual abuse and a supporter of Baptist Women in Ministry, stand outside a Southern Baptist Convention meeting Tuesday in Indianapolis.
The Rev. Greg Perkins, a California pastor and president of the National African American Fellowship, a network of about 4,000 SBC churches, told The Washington Post earlier Wednesday that passage of the amendment would be a blow. The Rev. Mike Law, the Arlington, Va., pastor who proposed the amendment, told representatives in the massive convention center Wednesday that the issue is about following scripture.
First Baptist Pastor for Children and Women Kim Eskridge told The Post on Wednesday that her church was reported to the SBC by nearby pastor Law, of Arlington Baptist Church.“My contention has always been that this is something we can agree to disagree on and keep the main thing the main thing, which is sharing the message with the Lord,” said Eskridge, whose church predates the existence of the SBC and has typical Sunday attendance of around 800.
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