Annual Council Considers Authority Document That Demonizes Many Church Entities
Annual Council Considers Authority Document That Demonizes Many Church Entities
29 September 2016 | Jared Wright
General Conference Secretariat circulated the document and a shorter companion summary document to Executive Committee members, who will be asked to approve the document at the Committee’s second meeting since the 2015 General Conference Session in San Antonio Texas. During that session, delegates voted down a motion to allow divisions to make provision to ordain women in their territories. Since then a spate of diverse practices on credentialing pastors, particularly women,