Before the vote, former pastor of Saddleback, Rick Warren, encouraged SBC members to vote against the expulsion “in order to share a common mission.” Afterward he criticized members’ outdated beliefs.
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The Lake Forest, California, congregation ordained three women from the stage in May 2021, a move that rattled the SBC who follow the biblical teaching that the role of pastor is reserved for men.
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