“If Baptists can’t police up their own and put offenders on notice then why bother having a paper.”
EAch congregation remains an independent church. I’m part of a SBC church, but the SBC doesn’t even know how many members we have. It doesn’t know our attendance. It doesn’t know our budget.
The SBC exists to pool resources for seminaries and missions. It has no top down authority.
Sort of like a confederacy. Understand.