By Erin Roach
Baptist Press
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Southern Baptists publicly lamented the harm their “actions and inactions have caused to survivors of sexual abuse” in a resolution adopted by messengers to the 2022 SBC annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif.
Messengers, during the second report of the Resolutions Committee, agreed sexual abuse is an abomination before God which grieves Christ, abandons the demands of Scripture, violates the image of God and “causes harm to those who are entrusted to the church’s care and protection.”
The resolution said sexual abuse perpetrated by pastoral leaders or church members is a violation of the sacred trust for pastoral leaders, and sexual abuse in the church is a failure of personal and public witness. [Read more…]