SBC Executive Committee takes decisive actions regarding Pastors’ conference, sex abuse, ERLC
By Diana Chandler
Baptist Press
NASHVILLE (BP) — A polarizing 2020 Pastors’ Conference program, a Texas church led by a registered sex offender and questions regarding the work of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission drew decisive action from the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee at its Feb. 17-18 meeting in Nashville.
But in an enthusiastic sign of unity, the EC voted unanimously to forward to 2020 annual meeting messengers Vision 2025, an initiative focused on evangelism, missions and stewardship put forth by SBC EC President Ronnie Floyd; and heard a report from the SBC’s two mission boards regarding the joining of national and international compassion ministries under the umbrella of Send Relief.
In other business, the EC unanimously voted to forward to messengers recommended revisions to the EC mission and ministries statement, including a new prayer ministry; and unanimously voted to recommend the addition of a George Liele Church Planting, Evangelism and Missions Day to the SBC Calendar annually on the first Sunday in February beginning in 2021, approving a request initiated in 2019 by the SBC National African American Fellowship (NAAF). [Read more…]