The last straw for me was when, during their last convention meeting, the SBC failed to even vote to reject a homosexual-affirming affiliated church in California. To their credit, the disfellowship was accomplished later in a committee many months later, but this should have been a no-brainer.
The delay is a deadly sign.
It doesn’t take long to slip into apostasy. I’m from a long line of Southern Baptists. We have Southern Baptist preachers, deacons, missionaries and Sunday School teachers in the family. I graduated from an SBC university and most of our friends and family remain Southern Baptist. So it wasn’t easy to move, but I didn’t like what I was seeing in our church and believed it was the right thing to do. A number of our close church friends left for a more traditional Southern Baptist congregation, but we left the SBC altogether.
Keep praying about a church home and He will be faithful to guide you. I know it’s getting harder to find faithful churches. It appears we may be heading into a period like the one described by Amos where there is a famine of the Word in our land. There are churches on every corner here, but it took us more than a year to find a new church home. In His time He honored our prayers. It’s been ten years and I am more certain than ever that we did the right thing. We have been richly blessed.