Clint Pressley, pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, and president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), will be nominated again this year to be the SBC’s president. Michael Criner, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Rockwall, Texas, announced on April 14 that he plans to nominate Pressley at the SBC’s 2025 annual meeting.
“I am honored to announce my intention to nominate @pastorclint as SBC President at our Annual Meeting in Dallas,” Criner said in an April 14 X post that included a Biblical Recorder article about the news. “Clint has done a fantastic job of joyfully serving Southern Baptists with humility & conviction. I hope you’ll join me in voting for him this June!”
I am honored to announce my intention to nominate @pastorclint as SBC President at our Annual Meeting in Dallas. Clint has done a fantastic job of joyfully serving Southern Baptists with humility & conviction. I hope you’ll join me in voting for him this June! https://t.co/63tsRGOpBH
— Michael Criner (@michaelcriner) April 14, 2025
Clint Pressley: It’s Been a ‘Really Positive Experience’
Clint Pressley was elected president of the SBC during last year’s annual meeting in Indianapolis after a second run-off vote. He was one of six candidates, the other five being David Allen, Bruce Frank, Mike Keahbone, Jared Moore, and Dan Spencer.
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Regarding his views on the responsibility of the SBC president, Pressley mentioned leading Southern Baptists to “support our confession” and “our commitment to the Great Commission.”
In a statement to Biblical Recorder, Criner said, “While this renomination is no surprise, it is coming after sincere prayer and ongoing conversations with a wide number of SBC pastors.”
“During his first year, Clint Pressley has displayed clarity, conviction, and courage,” said Criner. “One of the most admirable qualities of Clint is that in every environment where he has represented the SBC, he has joyfully pointed us to the very best of who we are and what we do: our confession and our cooperation for/towards the Great Commission.”
Pressley confirmed to Baptist Press (BP), the official news service of the Southern Baptist Convention, that he is willing to be nominated again for the role of SBC president, saying that his past year as president has “been a really positive experience all the way through.”
“Going to the seminaries, you see the education students are getting. I’ve met our entity heads and been a part of the IMB [International Mission Board] commissioning service,” Pressley told BP. “All of it has been a good reminder that Southern Baptists are a really good movement in the evangelical world and do a great job. It’s an honor to be a part of that.”
Two major topics of conversation in the SBC over the past several years have been sexual abuse reforms and women’s roles in church leadership. Pressley was a supporter of the Law Amendment, which did not gain enough votes to be ratified last year and would have enshrined in the SBC’s constitution a ban on ordaining women as pastors.
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