Controversy over Women Pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention

The chapter delves into the recent Law Amendment in the Southern Baptist Convention affecting churches with women pastors, causing conflicts within the convention and leading to implications like the inability to seat messengers at the annual convention. Tensions between SBC leadership seeking statistical growth and laymen advocating for gender equality are explored, with a focus on the controversy surrounding Saddleback Community Church and the debates at the annual meeting regarding the role of women as pastors.