Amid all the other headlines at this week’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, you might have missed an important internal debate that happened about financial transparency.
To those outside the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, this may not matter. But for anyone who puts money in an offering plate in a Southern Baptist church anywhere, it should matter.
This debate is about how much the person in the pew should be able to know about how their offerings are spent. It’s not a new debate, but it got the clearest hearing ever on Wednesday morning at the SBC annual meeting.
“For anyone who puts money in an offering plate in a Southern Baptist church anywhere, it should matter.”
To set the stage for explaining this, consider your local government or even your state government. Even in the most conservative locales, a certain level of financial transparency is required. It is usually possible, for…
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