The fact the he wasn’t ousted speaks more of the actual real word irrelevance of the SBC to the Baptist churches. They really are little more than a common effort for missions and such, though they love to portray themselves as an ersatz Vatican.
Their main other thing is education of seminary students.
But make no mistake, they do not speak for the faith, therefore, you see no huge effort to take them over by normal old fashioned Baptists.
SBC might be going the way of the Boy Scouts
Their main other thing is education of seminary students. But make no mistake, they do not speak for the faith, therefore, you see no huge effort to take them over by normal old fashioned Baptists.
Finally, someone who knows the SBC posts an intelligible response. As other SBCs on FR haves stated, the individual Baptist churches choose to affiliate with the SBC but are not beholden to the so-called "national leaders" in Nashville, TN. So many of the resolutions that are passed every year at the annual SBC meeting are non-binding.
The SBC went through a major internicene fight back around 1979 when the "conservatives" took control of the national offices. With Russell Moore's ascension to the chairman of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Committee back in 2013, we are witnessing the SBC pendulum swing back to the left regarding matters of illegal immigration, racial integration of churches and homosexuality.
FWIIW, Russell Moore is married to a women and has children.