SBC annual meeting

Former SBC president J.D. Greear has weighed in on the controversial disfellowshipping of Saddleback Church from the denomination, a decision that Rick Warren will challenge at the SBC annual meeting next week. 

Enthusiasm was as thick as the late summer air as hundreds of pastors and church leaders gathered at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary to prepare to welcome thousands of messengers to the 2023 annual meeting.

A candid conversation about the problems facing Southern Baptist churches and a discussion on the role of denominations headlined both 9Marks panel events coinciding with the 2022 SBC Annual Meeting.

At the SBC annual meeting, Rick Warren shared that he had trained over 1 million pastors. Warren tweeted about how he came to that number a few days after the speech.

Florida pastor and ERLC trustee Kevin Smith is under fire after comments he made at a 9Marks event during the SBC annual meeting in Anaheim last week began circulating online. 

Messengers to the 2022 Southern Baptist Convention voted down a motion to abolish the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) June 15.

A motion regarding the North American Mission Board’s ministry assignments dominated the SBC Executive Committee’s report of its recommendations during the June 15 morning session of the SBC annual meeting.

Several motions presented at the annual meeting related to sexual abuse care and prevention in addition to other subjects of interest to Southern Baptists.