The Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee ousted the churches for having female pastors. What's behind the decision is unclear, but the move has been criticized inside and outside the SBC.
she believes the SBC's leadership focusing on female pastors is a diversion tactic from those bigger issues.The SBC pointed NPR to the convention's bylaws for clarity on how the ousted churches will have the opportunity to appeal the executive committee's decision in June during the annual meeting in New Orleans,means those churches no longer have a vote or say in the direction of the SBC.
Popham said she has been serving as her church's pastor for 30 years. She said SBC leadership investigated her role as pastor three years ago, and her church was not punished. "We are not tributary to them, nor have we ever supported them. And our church has never needed anything at all from them," Washington said."Perhaps those individuals will remember that their first preacher/teacher was their mother," Washington said."And in Timothy's life it was his mother and his grandmother. St. Timothy's Christian Baptist Church of Baltimore Maryland follows Jesus Christ and not the SBC.
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