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Nikki Hardeman, of Atlanta, Ga.,, an advocacy director for Baptist Women in Ministry, left, Meredith Stone, executive director of Baptist Women in Ministry, center, and Christa Brown, an advocate for survivors of sexual abuse and a supporter of the Baptist Women in Ministry, stand outside the venue of a Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting Tuesday, June 11, 2024, in Indianapolis.
Some Texas school officials are skeptical that a K-12 curriculum with Christian influences is the lifeline state leaders promise SEE ALSO: Sex abuse survivors dispute Southern Baptist leadership and say federal investigation is ongoing SBC membership has dipped below 13 million, nearly a half-century low. Baptismal rates are in long-term decline.
“If we won’t stand on this issue and be unapologetically biblical, then we won’t stand on anything,” said amendment proponent Mike Law, pastor of Arlington Baptist Church in Virginia. “Southern Baptists are facing a decisive moment,” he said in a video on a pro-amendment website. “Here’s the trajectory of doing nothing: Soon Southern Baptist churches will start openly supporting homosexual clergy, same-sex marriage and eventually transgenderism.”
Such churches may leave if SBC leaders interfere with congregations following “their conscience, biblical convictions, and values by recognizing women can receive a pastoral gift from God in partnership with male leadership,” said Dwight McKissic, a pastor from Arlington, Texas, on the social media platform X.
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