Willie McLaurin, a Tennessee pastor who served as chief executive of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, has resigned.
The Executive Committee said it will issue updates about the future of the presidential search team and the SBC Executive Committee’s staff leadership “in the near future.”
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, SBC President Bart Barber quoted McLaurin asking for forgiveness “for the harm or hurt that this has caused.” Barber shared in the same post that he had granted that request: “Biblical Christianity offers you one and only one response to that plea, fellow Southern Baptists. Yes, Willie, I forgive you.”
The job of the chief executive involves leading the day-to-day business of the committee, which acts on behalf of the convention when it is not holding its annual two-day national gathering in June. His predecessor, Floyd resigned amid turmoil over the Executive Committee’sIn addition to serving as the Executive Committee’s vice president for Great Commission relations and mobilization since the post was created in 2020, McLaurin also worked at the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board for 15 years.
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