The new language would add that a church ‘affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.’
After lengthy debate, Southern Baptists voted on new language for their constitution that would state only men can be pastors of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
Warren argues that the debate is far larger than what might happen to the church he founded.
Days before the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, former megachurch pastor Rick Warren has appealed to his fellow Southern Baptists to overturn a denominational decision to oust his Saddleback Church because it permits women to ...