He argued that the Bible restricts the role of pastor to men only. Popham also said it's not a problem for congregations to disagree with one another on the specifics of who's eligible for ministry and that she would never suggest any congregation had to have a woman as its pastor.ĭefending the churches' expulsions was prominent SBC theologian and seminary president Albert Mohler. "We have a faith and practice," Popham said of her congregation, "that identifies more closely with the Baptist Faith and Message than many other Southern Baptist churches, and I am personally more conservative than the most Southern Baptist pastors I know." Up First The Sunday Story: An evangelical superstar left her church but kept her faith That version of the theological document does not exclude women from holding the office of pastor. She said that her congregation adhered to an earlier version of the Baptist Faith and Message, adopted in 1963. The SBC's 2000 statement of faith, called Baptist Faith and Message, asserts that only qualified men can serve as pastors, and the nearly 13,000 voters, who are called "messengers," voted to uphold the churches' removals.ĭuring the floor debate in New Orleans, Popham argued that women should be allowed to serve as pastors and that she had been faithfully serving in churches since she was a teenager. Linda Popham, for more than three decades. Saddleback Church ordained a woman as a campus pastor, and the Kentucky congregation has had a woman pastor, Rev. The SBC heard appeals by California megachurch Saddleback and a smaller church, Fern Creek Baptist in Louisville, Ky. The decision came during the group's annual meeting in New Orleans. The Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to uphold earlier decisions to expel two churches because they have women pastors. The megachurch founded by Rick Warren was one of two churches affected by a vote Wednesday at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting. Congregants arrive at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif.
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