“If we’re going to be standing before a court trying to tell them that we don’t have access to all the Cooperative Program funds, this designation sure doesn’t make that look true,” she said during the meeting.
In an interview, Bryson said that if the proposal to tap Cooperative Program funds fails this summer, the committee will have to come up with a different approach.
Bruce Frank, the North Carolina megachurch pastor who chaired the abuse task force that oversaw the Guidepost investigation, said he’d back the plan to tap Cooperative Program funds and that paying the SBC’s legal bills is part of the cost of running a major denomination.
“We can’t talk about how large of an organization we are and how we’re the largest Protestant denomination, and then say we can’t afford the basic cost of running this,” he said.
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