The Georgia Baptist Convention’s (GBC) executive committee voted unanimously March 13 to defund the Atlanta Baptist Association in response to the association’s failure to expel two pro-homosexual congregations from its membership.
The Atlanta association will lose $47,000 in special project money and $113,000, matched by the Southern Baptist Convention to fund 16 Atlanta-area missionaries.
The association’s annual budget is about $750,000.
J. Robert White, executive director of the GBC, noted that Georgia Baptists need to be brothers and sisters in Christ, but that they need to take stands for righteousness.
“It is clear that the association has left the convention and not the other way around.” White told The Christian Index news journal.
Funding will end on Dec. 31. (BP)
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