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  Messenger motions deal with ERLC, censure, other issues

  Messengers presented 50 motions at the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention annual neeting and acted on several, rejecting calls to abolish the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and censure Southern Baptist leaders.

  06/13/2024 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

• On the Move: Breidenbach, Jonse, Schneider and Vance

  Ministry changes noted.

  06/12/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley elected SBC president

  Clint Pressley, a North Carolina megachurch pastor known for a conservative but even-keel approach to leadership and who does not wear jeans in the pulpit, was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

  06/12/2024 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Resolutions spark lively debate at SBC

  After extensive debate, messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention approved resolutions about integrity in leadership, religious liberty, support for Israel and in vitro fertilization.

  06/12/2024 - By Calli Keener / Baptist Standard

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  NAMB chief addresses church planting and the BGCT

  The North American Mission Board will not fund church starts in partnership with the Baptist General Convention of Texas unless Texas Baptists change their statement of faith.

  06/12/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Abuse reform now in the hands of Executive Committee

  Leaders of a volunteer task force charged with implementing abuse reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination say they were given an impossible task. In the end, the task proved too much.

  06/12/2024 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Law Amendment fails to receive required vote

  A constitutional amendment barring churches that employ female pastors from the Southern Baptist Convention failed to receive the necessary two-thirds approval at the SBC annual meeting.

  06/12/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  ‘The mission matters most,’ Jeff Iorg tells SBC

  Jeff Iorg was ready to retire from the presidency of Gateway Seminary and spend more time with family when he was approached about seeking the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.

  06/12/2024 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  SBC approves evaluation task force recommendations

  Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting adopted six recommendations proposed by the Great Commission Resurgence Evaluation Task Force with one amendment.

  06/12/2024 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

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  Around the State: Texas Baptists celebrate Legacy Day

  Texas Baptists celebrated Legacy Day June 2 at Independence Baptist Church in Brenham—the oldest continually operating Baptist church in Texas.

  06/12/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Virginia church declared out of bounds by SBC

  Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting overwhelmingly voted to declare a Virginia church that supports women in pastoral roles as out of “friendly cooperation” with the SBC.

  06/11/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Mike Pence speaks to ERLC event about politics, prayer

  Former Vice President Mike Pence addressed Southern Baptists at a luncheon event focused on public service where he criticized President Joe Biden, questioned the future of the Republican Party and upheld faith as the answer for the country’s problems.

  06/11/2024 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service