DALLAS (BP) — Messengers to the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) submitted 28 motions in Dallas, narrowly defeated a proposed constitutional amendment and voted not to abolish the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) during the two-day session of the convention held June 10-11.
Messengers also voted against a motion by Tom Buck of Texas that the SBC Executive Committee (EC) investigate claims that EC mistreated a former chairman. Initially, the motion was slated to be referred to the EC. However, messengers voted to overturn the recommendation to refer and subsequently rejected the motion altogether.
A motion to amend the SBC Constitution to define a cooperating church as a congregation that “affirms, appoints or employs only men as any kind of pastor” gained just over 60% of the vote. But it failed to garner the first of two two-thirds majorities needed to adopt it.
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