As many as 4,000 Black churches with women pastors could be kicked out of the Southern Baptist Convention under the denomination’s new rules, warns the Rev. Gregory Perkins.
Mr. Perkins, president of the SBC’s National African American Fellowship, said in a new letter to the head of the SBC that the denomination’s ruling against women pastors has “created division within the SBC and may disproportionately impact NAAF affiliated congregations.”
That measure, proposed by the Rev. Mike Law Jr. of Arlington Baptist Church in Virginia, received the required two-thirds vote to move forward despite the SBC’s executive committee recommending a “no” vote on the amendment.If approved, Mr. Perkins warned, the change “may signal” that churches that give the “pastor” title to women are no longer welcome in the denomination.
Officials said that was partly because of better record keeping that swept the names of deceased members and those who moved away from congregations off the books. “If they actually implement what they passed a few weeks ago in New Orleans, they would have to bring up all those churches individually by name and ask them to be excluded,” he said in a telephone interview. “Based on what they did last a few weeks ago, that certainly is possible.”
Mr. Perkins wrote in his letter: “Many of our churches assign the title ‘pastor’ to women who oversee ministries of the church under the authority of a male Senior Pastor, i.e., Children’s Pastor, Worship Pastor, Discipleship Pastor, etc.” In a separate document, the National African American Fellowship said it believes “the decision to appoint or employ a woman with a pastoral title is not a national governance matter and should be decided by the local church.”In a message shared with The Washington Times, Mr. Barber said he looks forward to working with the Black caucus.
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