It is that simple. We're evangelistic. You've read 0 of 5 of todays most popular posts. Fewer than one-tenth of one percent of the 41,099 Southern Baptist churches have a woman serving as senior pastor, according to a study by Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. This principle is not a cultural relic, but the divine order. Recently installed lead Pastor Andy Wood, who replaced pastor and bestselling author Rick Warren as leader of Saddleback, listed his wife Stacie as a teaching pastor on the churchs website. Arlington Baptist Church, where Law began serving in 2014, had at least two women pastors in its past. A 1985 graduate of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Simpson has served as pastor in two of the three Southern Baptist churches, most recently Broadneck Baptist in Annapolis. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. While theres little data on the number of women serving in pastoral roles in Southern Baptist churches, fewer than one-tenth of 1% of SBC-affiliated churches in 2000 had a woman serving as senior pastor, according to a study from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. At the time, the Watts Street Baptist Church. The change would have to be approved by the messengers at the conventions annual meeting. The revision to the SBC doctrinal statement does not address ordination, but it clearly affirms the leadership of women in a variety of non-pastoral roles. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. Saddleback is the largest and most prominent Southern Baptist church to ordain women since the fundamentalists gained control of the denomination. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. Georgia pastor Mike Stone, who lost a hotly . The 2011 Faith Matters Survey a study from Harvard and Notre Dame that surveyed 2,646 Americans asked respondents how much they agreed with the following statement, Women should be allowed to be priests or clergy in my house of worship.. "It is further resolved that this Board encourages The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary administration and faculty to continue its theological training with this stated conviction graduating both men and women for service to the church, but with men alone reserved for the office and function, and thereby title of pastor," the resolutionstates in part.
