The Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee voted on Tuesday to expel four of its member churches, ousting two for policies that “affirm homosexual behavior” and the others for employing pastors who are convicted sex offenders. “The last year has revealed areas of weakness in our beloved convention of churches,” J.D.
Greear, the S.B.C. president, said in a fiery opening address to the committee on Monday night in Nashville. “Fissures and failures and fleshly idolatries.
Covid didn’t produce these crises. It only exposed them.” The next day, the committee “disfellowshipped” Towne View Baptist Church in Kennesaw, Ga., and St.