Southern Baptist Convention Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Pastor and deacon=== Generally, Baptists recognize only two scriptural offices: pastor-teacher and [[deacon]]. The convention passed a resolution in the early 1980s recognizing that offices requiring ordination are restricted to men. According to the Baptist Faith and Message, the office of ''pastor'' is limited to men based on certain [[New Testament]] scriptures.<ref name="aboutus-faq9">{{Citation |title=FAQs β Frequently Asked Questions |url=http://www.sbc.net/aboutus/faqs.asp#9 |contribution=Can women be pastors or deacons in the SBC? |publisher=Southern Baptist Convention |access-date=July 19, 2009 |archive-date=July 22, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090722184856/http://www.sbc.net/aboutus/faqs.asp#9 |url-status=dead }}.</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page