What a Pastor's Fight over Financial Transparency in SBC Achieved Despite His Latest Loss

What a pastor's fight over financial transparency in SBC achieved despite his latest loss

Despite major blow at 2025 meeting against campaign for financial transparency in SBC, SC pastor Rhett Burns has helped transform his small church.

Effort to compel greater SBC transparency fails

By Ken CampManaging Editor, Baptist Standardand local reports DALLAS — Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting messengers approved a new business and financial plan for convention entities, rejecting an amendment that would have required a level of financial transparency comparable to IRS Form 990 disclosures. Messengers approved a business and financial plan recommended by the SBC Executive Committee that emphasizes trustee governance of the…

Why won’t the SBC be more financially transparent?

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