A letter from the president of the SBC's National African American Fellowship expressed concerns over recent SBC decisions to bar churches with women pastors.
Saddleback, whose case was argued by founding pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren, had been ousted for naming a woman to its pastoral team.
The nearly 13,000 messengers left the convention hall not knowing the future of abuse reforms.
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Stone said he wants to help local churches do more evangelism and to do a better job at dealing with abuse.