DALLAS (BP) – In the latest attempt to abolish or defund the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, nearly 57 percent of messengers voted to keep the entity. A total of 6,563 ballots were cast, with 3,744 (56.89 percent) supporting the ERLC and 2,819 (42.84 percent) voting to abolish it. Eighteen votes (.27 percent) were disallowed. Two successive majority votes are necessary to abolish an SBC entity. “We thank the messengers

DALLAS — Messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention overwhelmingly adopted resolutions of support for two time-honored tenets — the Cooperative Program and the Baptist Faith and Message. Resolutions “On the Centennial Anniversary of the Cooperative Program” and “On Honoring the Centennial Anniversary of the Baptist Faith and Message (1925) and Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Baptist Faith and Message (2000)” were among eight resolutions approved

DALLAS — A request for the SBC legal counsel to countersue longtime pastor and former SBC president Johnny Hunt to recover legal fees incurred by the Convention was among 15 motions proposed during the afternoon session of the SBC Annual Meeting today (June 10). Another 13 motions were presented during the morning session. Hunt sued the SBC and several others following his appearance in the 2022 report following the Guidepost

DALLAS — Jeff Iorg said all during this year’s Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas, messengers have been doing something similar to what the Israelites did in Joshua 4. In that chapter, “there’s a story of God instructing His people to gather 12 memorial stones from the Jordan River and to create a memorial to the miracle of God stopping the river so the Israelites could cross on dry

DALLAS — North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley was elected for a second term as Southern Baptist Convention president during the SBC’s annual meeting in Dallas. Pressley defeated David Morrill, a member of Applewood Baptist Church in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, who was nominated by Chris Cunningham from Hillcrest Baptist Church in Big Springs, Texas. Out of 6,009 votes cast, Pressley received 5,567 votes (92.64%). Morrill received 408 votes (6.79 % ),

DALLAS—Jimmy Scroggins said his dad was a high school football coach, and the one thing he prided himself on the most was how many of his assistant coaches became head coaches. “There were more than 50 who became head coaches,” said Scroggins, pastor of Family Church in south Florida. “He felt like that was a greater mark of his success than anything else he accomplished.” That’s how he feels about

DALLAS—Recalling his early years playing football, Clint Pressley recalled how there were some players he was friends with and some he “barely knew their name.” But he still recognized they were “all teammates” — and cooperation and teamwork were critical for the success of the team. “Every guy on that team was my teammate, and we played on the same team in the same direction,” said Pressley, president of the