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This includes the BFM 2000 statement, the 2021 resolution “On The Dignity And Worth Of Women, and the 2023 Resolution clarifying womens roles in the body of Christ:  ON THE LEGACY AND RESPONSIBILITY OF WOMEN FULFILLING THE GREAT COMMISSION WHEREAS, Both men and women are created in the image of God, sharing equal value, dignity, and worth, and are commissioned by God (Genesis 1:26–28); and WHEREAS, Scripture calls women to obey Christ’s Great Commission and demonstrates women are crucial and indispensable to His mission (Matthew 28:18–20; Acts 1:8; 2:17–18); and WHEREAS, Shiphrah and Puah protected the children of God (Exodus 1:15–20), Miriam proclaimed the glory of God (Exodus 15:20–21), Rahab saved her family from certain death (Joshua 6:22–25), Deborah judged God’s people (Judges 4:4–9), Jael delivered Israel (Judges 4:17–22), Hannah prayed for and dedicated her child to God (1 Samuel 1:10–11), Huldah prophesied God’s judgment and mercy (2 Chronicles 34:22–28), Ruth and Naomi ex...

A church affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, remains autonomous from the convention.  Each church directs its affairs apart from outside intervention, deciding for itself how to deal with all matters.  The Convention recognizes that in the New Testament there was no centralized ecclesiastical authority over the churches that forced the churches into any form of compliance. There was encouragement, exhortation, and admonition, but there was never enforcement. You become a Southern Baptist by uniting with a Southern Baptist church, (one in friendly cooperation with the general Southern Baptist enterprise of reaching the world for Christ). Southern Baptists have prepared a statement of generally held convictions called The Baptist Faith & Message . It serves as a guide to understanding who we are. And includes the Essentials of basic Biblical Christian beliefs, and touches on importance of all believers including women .  A New Testament church of the Lord ...