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Those who care about the SBC should be concerned: Why would leadership want to further reduce a dwindling denomination? If ever we needed more believers operating in their God-given gifts and teaching abilities, it is now.

Rick Warren’s Official Argument To Overturn the EC Judgment Failed The SBC delegates, who are called messengers, voted overwhelmingly to uphold the Feb. 21 ruling of the SBC Executive Committee, which determined all three churches had been found to be “not in friendly cooperation with the Convention.” Both Saddleback Church and Fern Creek Baptist Church were removed for having women functioning in the office of pastor. Freedom Church was removed for failing to cooperate with the Convention to resolve concerns regarding an abuse allegation.

Nobody expected Rick Warren’s appeal to be successful—not even Rick Warren. But he still stood up in front of 13,000 Southern Baptists gathered in New Orleans to make his case.

NEW ORLEANS, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Following Pastor Rick Warren's appeal from the floor of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Annual Meeting in New Orleans yesterday, shortly after the results of the vote were announced this morning he gave his response and fielded questions from credentialed press at a 75-minute Media Availability, that resembled a "Master Class" in SBC history, polity and hermeneutics.

NEW ORLEANS, June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pastor Rick Warren, founder of Saddleback Church, best-selling author of The Purpose Driven Life and Coordinator of the global Finishing the Task coalition, today delivered an impassioned appeal from the Convention floor the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

The Southern Baptist Convention has voted to enforce a doctrine for male-only pastors, rejecting an impassioned appeal from the Rev. Rick Warren to reinstate his megachurch, which an SBC governing panel expelled in February for employing a female “teaching pastor.”