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ECFA Membership Updates and MinistryWatch Database Changes: New Additions, Removals, and Financial Ratings
Delegates also affirmed that elders can only be men.
The church said a lack of checks and balances created the opportunity.
Expenditures include $11K on an espresso machine, $60K on Christmas decorations, and an extravagant home makeover.
The two candidates for SBC president hold many of the same beliefs but disagree sharply over how to handle the issue of sexual abuse and over the direction of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
The Christian Broadcasting Network founder tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition.
Mike Baker’s son Caleb was formerly an associate pastor at the church.
She was the co-author of Corrie Ten Boom’s WWII book ‘The Hiding Place.’