An important article written by Baptist News Global attracted attention and reaction around the Southern Baptist Convention this weekend. The report published Friday, October 25, 2019, outlined legal dangers to the Southern Baptist Convention created as the North American Mission Board (NAMB) defends itself in a lawsuit over its president’s conduct. The legal arguments likely expose the SBC’s entities to new liabilities if the court adopts NAMB’s novel arguments.
According to Baptist News Global, “Should NAMB prevail in its argument that national leaders had an absolute right to act in ways that may have led to his termination, McRaney said, it will be only a matter of time before some lawyer uses it in another court of law to establish connectionalism between, churches, associations, state conventions and the SBC that the denomination’s governing documents claim does not exist.