Vanguard Church Dares SBC to Disfellowship
(Evangelical Dark Web) The passage of the Mike Law amendment at the SBC 2023 convention, paired with the disfellowshipping of Fern Creek and Saddleback (or Brokeback) Church has sent a warning shot across the denomination to the egalitarians within. While there are hundreds, maybe even thousands, who possess women pastors, two of the more notorious bad actors were purged from the convention.
Fern Creek was more outwardly defiant, which was exhibited in Linda Popham’s speech on the convention floor. Yet the situation of Saddleback Church is more commonplace within the SBC, that while they do not employ a woman “Senior Pastor,” they compromise to feminism through titling women as “Associate Pastors” who do not supersede the male headship of the church. Another common scenario is the pastor’s wife functioning as a co-pastor. Both were present in Saddleback.
Following the convention, Tosha Lamdin Williams took to Christian Post to write her column, “A Southern Baptist pastor’s wife responds to the ‘women pastor’ issue.” Kelly Williams is the pastor of Vanguard Church, a multi-campus megachurch in Colorado Springs, CO. This church is listed in the SBC directory.
After describing her initial “calling” into ministry and her seminary training at Dallas Theological Seminary, she then goes on to describe their “calling” into church planting.
When we gave God our “yes” to church planting, we promised to do what He told us to do regardless of how the provision came, who believed in us, or what opposition we faced. Still, the opportunity for some monthly support from the SBC was almost too good to be true. We decided to…continue reading, click here.
This article was written by Anthony Fava and published at the Evangelical Dark Web