“Well, I think you need to take up this matter with your fellow Baptists then. They clearly seem to think he “leads” them...Also surprised you claim to have no knowledge of who the SBC President ever was until I mentioned it.”
I’m not “claiming” anything. I’m stating a fact. I don’t need to take up anything with my fellow Baptist, having been one for close to 40 years now. I KNOW the vast majority of my fellow baptists neither know nor care who the president of the SBC is.
I also know EVERY baptist church I’ve been in has been very well aware that the SBC exists solely to coordinate spending on missions and seminaries.
Given this fact, the SBC should just reunite with the National Baptist Convention (NBC); National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.; (NBCA); American Baptist Churches USA (ABC); and Baptist Bible Fellowship International (BBF).
It apparently makes no difference who the powerless “President” is, since every pastor has complete and total freedom to say and do whatever he pleases, so then there’s absolutely no need for different Baptist denominations in the U.S. Add up all the Baptists denominations and you might outnumber those pesky Catholics who get all the attention.
Also given that fact, I’d hope and pray you don’t end up with some self-described “Southern Baptist” pastor running around telling everyone that Jesus wasn’t divine, the holy spirit doesn’t exist, and the Bible is a fairy tale. Or maybe you could even have one going around preaching that Muhammad is a prophet like a decently defrocked Methodist pastor tried to do. Good luck with that one since your SBC is absolutely powerless to do anything about such an apostate self-identifies as a pastor in the “Southern Baptist Convention”. The Unitarians certainly haven’t been helped by letting their pastors say and believe any theological viewpoint they want. I believe they even have atheist “pastors” now.