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The Southern Baptist Convention has refused to welcome Saddleback Church back into its fold, rejecting an appeal by the California megachurch over its February ouster for having women pastors. The ...
The Southern Baptist Convention has ousted Saddleback Church because of its female pastors. Benjamin Cole, the Baptist Blogger, explains how this represents the SBC's drift to the right.
As of February 21, 2023, the church was removed from the SBC membership list due to the hiring of a female pastor in 2022, Stacie Wood, the wife of new senior pastor Andy Wood. [17] [18] [19] On May 16, the Southern Baptist Convention announced that Saddleback was seeking an appeal to be reinstated in fellowship. In June 2023, when it requested ...
FILE - Congregants arrive at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. On Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, the Southern Baptist Convention ousted its second-largest congregation ...
What started as a fringe idea later permeated into the mainstream when the convention voted overwhelmingly at the 2023 SBC annual meeting to uphold the ouster of Saddleback Church in Southern ...
In February, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee voted to oust Fern Creek for having a woman pastor — the same issue it cited for expelling four other churches, including the ...
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That included one of its largest, Saddleback Church of California. When Saddleback and a small Kentucky church appealed to the annual meeting in 2023, delegates overwhelmingly refused to take them ...