"To fulfill the Great Commission, we need the whole Church using their gifts. We need everybody."
Dr. Rick Warren

What’s our motivation? God wants His lost children found. 
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Currently, the concerns about women serving as pastors is a subject of intensive debate within the Southern Baptist Convention(SBC).  As followers of Christ, we’re never going to achieve unity on doctrine, but we can achieve unity on mission.

On behalf of millions of SBC women

On behalf of the hundreds of concerned SBC pastors

On behalf of the IMB missionaries

On the foundational principle of the SBC that every church is autonomous

To protect and uphold the shared values and mission of the SBC

SBCStand.com exists in support of a challenge to the SBC Executive Committee’s Ruling at the Annual Meeting in New Orleans in June for these FIVE REASONS.

“Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely, I am with you always, to the very end of the age,”

Matthew 28:19-20.

“Jesus said, ‘Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: ‘I have seen the Lord!’ And she told them that he had said these things to her,”

John 20:17-18.

“No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy,’”

Acts 2:16-18, Peter quoting Joel 2:28.
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Truth Triumphs over Tradition. Always.

Membership in the Southern Baptist Convention was down by nearly half a million in 2022, according to a recently released denomination report. Lifeway Research reported that the SBC had 13.2 million members in 2022, down from 13.68 million in 2021. That loss of 457,371 members is the largest in more than a century, according to the Annual Church Profile compiled by Lifeway. 
Today, the International Missions Board has almost 1,500 fewer missionaries than it had 23 years ago when the revised Baptist Faith and Message was approved in 2000.
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Truth Triumphs over Tradition. Always.

Membership in the Southern Baptist Convention was down by nearly half a million in 2022, according to a recently released denomination report. Lifeway Research reported that the SBC had 13.2 million members in 2022, down from 13.68 million in 2021. That loss of 457,371 members is the largest in more than a century, according to the Annual Church Profile compiled by Lifeway. 
Today, the International Missions Board has almost 1,500 fewer missionaries than it had 23 years ago when the revised Baptist Faith and Message was approved in 2000.
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We’re never going to achieve unity on doctrine, but we can achieve unity on mission.

There are 2.6 billion Christians in the world affiliated with various faith communities and denominations. We may disagree over baptism, the Lord’s Supper, doctrine about Mary and a dozen other things. But, when it comes to training up evangelists, we’re not starting from scratch in the endeavor to partner in the Great Commission. 
Recognizing that many of these 2.6 billion individuals are cultural Christians who may need to be re-energized or even re-evangelized, this figure still means that one out of every three people on this planet is already saying, “I believe Jesus is the Son of God who died on the Cross for my sins and rose again.” That means the Church is bigger than China and India together. The Church is bigger than China and the U.S. and Europe. Together we’re the biggest entity on the planet.
Nothing is bigger than the Church of Jesus Christ. Therefore, we need to figure out a way to mobilize the whole Church. If every person who identifies as a Christian, or more specifically a follower of Jesus, was trained to share their faith and only talked to two other people – everyone could hear the Gospel.

We’re never going to achieve unity on doctrine, but we can achieve unity on mission.
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“What’s our motivation? God wants His lost children found.”

Dr. Rick Warren

“To fulfill the Great Commission, we need the whole Church using their gifts. We need everybody.”  

Dr. Rick Warren

“We cannot finish the task Jesus gave us with 50% of the church forced to sit on the bench.”

Dr. Rick Warren

“For men, this is a theological issue, but for women, it is an existential issue and a matter of identity.”

Dr. Rick Warren

“Jesus told Mary Magdalene to tell the disciples about his resurrection, choosing her to be the first preacher of the Gospel.”

Dr. Rick Warren