Illinois Baptist
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Made to Thrive
2021 IBSA Annual Meeting Together again
Baptist family gathers in
Springfield after truncated 2020 convention.
Peaceable
Business sessions address
current issues in harmonious fashion.
Revelation
Pastors focus on commands
to churches and a few words of comfort.
Reports
IBSA’s three entities share
Team coverage begins on page 5
news of Covid’s effects and thriving despite them.
News journal of the Illinois Baptist State Association
NOV. 10, 2021 Vol. 115 No. 11
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SBC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
A glimpse inside my worry box
CEO Ronnie Floyd resigns
15 trustees also leave after controversial vote Nashville, Ten. | November 1 dawned with no executive hand on the rudder of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee (EC). The resignation of President and CEO Ronnie Floyd was effective at midnight. During the month after Floyd announced his departure, 15 EC members and Executive Vice President Greg Addison also quit. They all left after controversial votes over several meetings to waive the EC’s attorney-client privilege—against the advice of their own attorneys—in the investigation of the EC leadership’s handling of sex abuse claims in the denomination. EC Chairman Rolland Slade has called another special meeting Nov. 10, where the remaining members
of the 86-seat panel may discuss interim leadership and formation of a search committee to replace Floyd. The election of replacements for the trustees who have resigned cannot come until the 2022 SBC Annual Meeting in June. Guidepost Solutions, a firm hired to lead the abuse-response investigation, asked for the EC’s attorneyclient privilege to be waived. Floyd had advocated following the recommendation of the EC’s own attorneys to retain privilege, and instead release information piece-by-piece after the investigation is completed. He and the EC attorneys said that would preserve the EC’s fiduciary responsibility for the SBC, and possibly avoid further costly lawsuits later. P. 3
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Give thanks in everything, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thess. 5:18