At question is the practice of having women as pastors.
Since preaching his last sermon, Warren has kept out of the limelight until recent weeks.
Calls for expelling Saddleback Church began in 2021, shortly after Warren ordained three women pastors. The women led worship for children and students and provided visits to hospitals and funerals.Convention representatives also heard from Lynda Barnes, pastor of Fern Creek Baptist Church in Kentucky.
Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in a three-minute rebuttal, responded to Warren, saying that in the year 2000, the words “the office of the pastor is limited to men as qualified by scripture” were added to the statementFollowing the comments, the group of 12,011 convention representatives were asked to cast their ballots on the appeal. A decision is expected Wednesday morning.
Warren said he came upon this “repentance” after he studied the Bible and specifically the New Testament – written in Greek, its original language – more deeply and stopped taking the standard Southern Baptist line of thinking for granted, as he said he had for more than 50 years.
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