NotBadAndYou@lemmy.world to World News@beehaw.org · 1 year agoSouthern Baptists refuse to take back megachurch because it has women pastorsapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down10
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minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoSaddleback Church claims a membership of over 350k parishioners across 29 branches. This is the church that’s being denied reentry over its women in leadership.
minus-squareaverage650@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoOut of 13.2 million members and 47,198 churches in the SBC. I don’t have hard numbers on other churches that support this, but this church, even as big as it is, is still tiny compared to the entire denomination.
Saddleback Church claims a membership of over 350k parishioners across 29 branches.
This is the church that’s being denied reentry over its women in leadership.
Out of 13.2 million members and 47,198 churches in the SBC. I don’t have hard numbers on other churches that support this, but this church, even as big as it is, is still tiny compared to the entire denomination.