Preliminary SBC resolutions address abortion, reproductive technologies, religious liberty, and the use of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Resolutions Committee has released a preliminary list of resolutions to be presented at the 2024 annual meeting in Indianapolis, according to Baptist Press, the SBC’s public relations and news service.
The resolutions include issues such as evangelism, abortion, reproductive technologies, parenting, religious liberty, war, integrity in leadership, and the use of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs). The full text of all 10 resolutions can be downloaded here.
2024 marks the beginning of a new process to give messengers more time to review resolutions, according to Jonathan Howe, SBC Executive Committee vice president for communications.
The window for resolutions started on April 1 and closed on May 22. The committee met last week in Oklahoma City to work through the submitted resolutions.
The bylaw change approved by messengers at last year’s annual meeting requires preliminary resolutions be published no later than 10 days before the annual meeting with a final report appearing in the daily bulletin on the first day of the annual meeting. Messengers gather in Indianapolis this year on June 11.
Individual resolutions are available at the links below:
On Justice and Peace in the Aftermath of the October 7 Attack on Israel
On the Ethical Realities of Reproductive Technologies and the Dignity of the Human Embryo
On the Danger of Abusing Non-Disclosure and Non-Disparagement Agreements
The resolutions are also available in the new annual meeting app.
More than two dozen resolutions were submitted to the committee for consideration. Resolutions submitted and not brought forward by the committee will be noted in the disposition report published in the SBC Daily Bulletin on June 11.