Carl Henry “looked at me with a look that surprised me, and he simply said to me, ‘One day this will be a matter of great embarrassment to you.'”

A seminary president who served on a committee that 10 years ago revised the Southern Baptist Convention’s confessional document to declare that only men should be pastors told students Sept. 14 that he was embarrassed by his former advocacy of women in ministry.

Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., recalled in a seminary chapel sermon the reaction when the Southern Baptist Convention in 1984 for the first time adopted a resolution declaring the office of pastor is restricted to men qualified by Scripture.

“That incited one of the most incredible denominational controversies — in the midst of that great controversy of the ’70s and the ’80s and the ’90s — that one could imagine,” Mohler said. “Many people took umbrage at that statement. Many people were hurt and outraged and stunned that the Southern Baptist Convention would say that a woman ought not to be pastor.”

“I was one of them,” Mohler confessed. “I was a student in this institution. This institution at that time taught monolithically that women, just as men, could and should be called to serve as pastors of churches. There was no [Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood]. There was no book on recovering biblical manhood and womanhood.”

Mohler said he can give “first-hand testimony” about how error by a teacher or preacher can set a course leading to error of others.

Editor’s Note: We suggest you go to the Read More link to finish the story and especially read the comments that follow the story. You will get a picture of the attitude of the SBC towards Mohler (and other Founder’s Conference leaders).

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