SBC Messengers Advance Mohler Amendment, Kill 6 Task Force Motions
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Updated · Baptist Press · Jun 10
SBC Messengers Advance Mohler Amendment, Kill 6 Task Force Motions
3 articles · Updated · Baptist Press · Jun 10
Summary
Southern Baptist Convention messengers voted to suspend Standing Rule 6 and put Albert Mohler’s constitutional amendment on Wednesday’s agenda instead of sending it to the Executive Committee for next-year review.
Article 3 would explicitly bar cooperating churches from affirming, appointing or endorsing women serving in the office or function of pastor, elder or overseer, including preaching to the assembled congregation.
Six study or task-force proposals were then effectively defeated after messengers refused to refer five to the Executive Committee and another to incoming president Willy Rice, before indefinitely postponing all of them.
Benjamin Cole argued the Executive Committee was already overburdened, echoing concerns raised after EC President Jeff Iorg said the proposed 2026-27 Cooperative Program budget would reduce the committee’s funding.
Two governance-amendment motions still went automatically to the Executive Committee, while 20 other motions awaited action, including proposals on trustee eligibility, online registration, vaccine policy, transparency and a pastors-only biological-male standard.