The SBC doesn’t have a big organization. That has been part of the problem. No one in the SBC can control much because all the churches are truly independent.
Exactly. They own their own building, pay the electric bill, hire and fire preachers. And within the broad swim lanes of the faith, each preacher and each person in the pews are competent before God to read and interpret the scripture.
It’s a very good system, not easily hijacked by those with denomination-wide designs, government, etc, and is not well understood.