The 2025 Meeting Of The Southern Baptist Convention

At this year’s Southern Baptist Convention, we witnessed the beauty and the burden of being a convictional people. On the one hand, we celebrated missionary commissioning to unreached nations, record church planting, and the strength of our seminaries. On the other hand, we faced hard debates about the ERLC and female pastors' role that exposed real fractures in our fellowship. Forty percent called to abolish the ERLC, and once again, we failed to reach the supermajority needed for constitutional clarity on pastoral qualifications. These are not peripheral issues—they strike at the heart of who we are. The future of our cooperation depends on convictional clarity, not cultural compromise. Now more than ever, we need Bible-believing Southern Baptists to stay in the room, stay engaged, and speak with courage.