 While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.  Women's Almanacby Doris Weatherford - 2002 - 380 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | T. Laine Scales - 2000 - 330 pages
...revisions to its 1963 confession of faith, The Baptist Faith and Message, the SBC approved this statement: "While both men and women are gifted for service in...office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture."25 While Southern Baptist women continue working to develop networks of support, opposition... | |
 | Randall Balmer - 2005 - 320 pages
...could continue to seek ordination, they could no longer be appointed as senior pastors of SBC churches. "While both men and women are gifted for service in...pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture," explained SBC president James Merritt. "That statement is extremely limited in scope as it should be.... | |
 | Fisher Humphreys - 2002 - 164 pages
...pastors. It reaffirmed that rejection in the Baptist Faith and Message of 2000, article VI of which reads: "While both men and women are gifted for service in...pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture." The Convention rejected the critical study of the Bible in the report of the Peace Committee in 1987.... | |
 | Melissa Walker, Jeanette R. Dunn, Joe P. Dunn - 2003 - 256 pages
...the SBC reaffirmed its opposition to women as pastors by amending the Baptist Faith and Message to read: "While both men and women are gifted for service...pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture." Obviously, the prohibition is symbolic because all Baptist congregations are autonomous and have the... | |
 | Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll - 2003 - 816 pages
...is responsible and accountable to Christ as Lord. Its scriptural officers are pastors and deacons. While both men and women are gifted for service in...pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture. The New Testament speaks also of the church as the Body of Christ which includes all of the redeemed... | |
 | David R. Goldfield - 2003 - 156 pages
...rested there until the June 2000 meeting of the SBC where delegates ended the ambiguity resolving that "the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture." The chairman of the drafting committee explained that "Southern Baptists, by practice as well as conviction,... | |
 | Sally K. Gallagher - 2003 - 264 pages
...women's ordination. The statement (which had been silent on the issue since 1963) now specifies that "the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture" (article 18). Because the statement of the convention is not binding, the revisions have no direct... | |
 | F. Scott Spencer - 2004 - 209 pages
...2000, added specific statements in its sections on "Church" and "Family" restricting the role of women: "While both men and women are gifted for service in...pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture" (Section VI. The Church). "A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her... | |
 | Zondervan, - 2009 - 322 pages
...member is responsible and accountable to Christ as Lord. Its scriptural offices are pastors and deacons. While both men and women are gifted for service in...pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture. The New Testament speaks also of the church as the Body of Christ which includes all of the redeemed... | |
 | Fisher Humphreys, Philip Wise - 2004 - 134 pages
...called "The Baptist Faith and Message." The revision added to the earlier versions this new sentence: "While both men and women are gifted for service in...office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture."9 While this had doubtless been the view of the majority of Southern Baptists, it had not... | |
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