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Report: 2020 SBC Resolutions Chair is Teaching Pastor at church with women deacons

How do Southern Baptists feel about women pastors? What about women deacons?

Well, we will soon find out. SBC President J.D. Greear named Ed Stetzer as chairman of the 2020 SBC Resolutions Committee. Stetzer has served over two years as Interim Teaching Pastor at Moody Church. And Moody Church has women deaconesses.

The Louisiana Baptist Message was the first to report this huge news. https://baptistmessage.com/greear-names-stetzer-to-chair-resolutions/

According to the report by Will Hall, “Stetzer likely will be considered a controversial choice by many Southern Baptists. He is the interim teaching pastor for the Moody Church in Chicago, Illinois, a non-SBC congregation that ordains women as deaconesses and is elder-led.