Texas pastor seeks higher standard for reporting sexual abuse in SBC

A Southern Baptist pastor/blogger in North Texas has submitted a resolution for consideration at the upcoming meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention calling on leaders to get tough on churches that tolerate or conceal sexual abuse. BNG

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Bart Barber, pastor of First Baptist Church in Farmersville, is asking the SBC resolutions committee to consider a resolution titled “On Sexual Predation in the Southern Baptist Family” when it reports at the 2016 SBC annual meeting June 14-16 in St. Louis, Mo.

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