It is wrong for our Southern Baptist servants to use their entity positions to influence the election of the man who will appoint their overseers—our entity trustees. There is no way to spin it. It is repugnant to honest elections and the integrity of our entire trustee system to allow the outsized voices of our entity presidents and celebrites to subvert the process.
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary President Danny Akin knows this has become an issue. He wrote, “I am well aware of an ongoing conversation about the role of SBC entity leaders in the discussion of the SBC presidency.