From Dr. Michael Haykin, eminent church historian and Heritage professor: “Despite the fact that some 50-60 Fellowship Baptist churches here in the East pled with the BC churches not to move in this direction, the BC region went ahead with their expulsion. Much more could be said, but I wish to go on record that...
Tag: FEB National
January FEB Gender Update Letter (Francais)
En tant que communauté d’Églises locales, nous vous écrivons au nom de l’équipe de pilotage de la motion de 1997 à la récente convention nationale 2025, car huit Églises sœurs fidèles de Fellowship Pacific (FEBP) risquent d’être immédiatement exclues du Fellowship pour avoir promu un complémentarisme de conviction. Cette situation est très préoccupante pour notre...
January FEB Gender Update Letter
As a fellowship of local churches, we are writing to you as a steering team from the ‘97 motion from FNC 2025 because eight faithful sister churches in Fellowship Pacific (FEBP) are facing immediate removal from the Fellowship for advancing our Fellowship’s convictional complementarianism. This is a matter of urgent concern for our shared Fellowship...
FEB National Announces Complementarian Congruence Team
“The Complementarian Congruence Team (CCT) will be chaired by Rev. Dr. Jonathan Stairs. The team’s objectives are to: Present a modified version of the Article 9, The Local Church, to the delegates at FNC 2027 for approval, and Provide a path toward complete congruence between Fellowship National’s Affirmation of Faith and its binding documents by...
2025 National Convention ’97 Gender Motion Transcript
The real question that needs to be answered is whether or not we are going to practice and enforce what we already claim to believe. Are we going to stand on God's word and be united in a common confession, or will we be driven off course by the winds of changing culture? If we complementarian delegates vote against the motion today, our vote will only help egalitarian practice to become further entrenched and normalized. If this motion does not pass, understand, we will likely lose at least 10 complementarian churches in Pacific.
Response to FEB Prairies Letter
“We agree that the Gospel is foremost; however, secondary matters, like baptism, bind us together as a movement. In fact, many would see complementarianism as more important than baptism, being a creation ordinance. It is good to appreciate our theological history and church autonomy; however, our theology is not just a historical reference point but...
FEB Prairies Communication about the ’97 Motion
“As mentioned in Fellowship Pacific’s October 16, 2025 letter, Fellowship Prairies defeated the following motion at our Regional Convention in May of 2025, “Be it therefore resolved, in accordance with 1 Timothy 2:12, Fellowship Prairies will only recognize churches in which their elders (or pastors or leaders) who preach to or otherwise have authority over...
Tim Stephen’s CBMW Article on the Fellowship
“One of the questions I have is this: Will the Fellowship follow the Christian & Missionary Alliance, which now ordains women pastors? Will steps toward a “soft egalitarianism” be tolerated by the national convention? It must be remembered that typically practice changes before policy. That is, one church then a growing number of churches adopt...
Joshua Claycamp to National Churches on ’97 Motion
“Fellowship Pacific stipulated three conditions for “joyful fellowship” with the region that were not given at the IMPACT convention by the constituency of our Region but prescribed by the board afterwards. The board’s conditions were: Our churches were never to be critical of female preachers who preached to men. While we were allowed by leadership...
Dave Nannery, Avoidant Culture in FEB Pacific
“Out of this 14-year involvement in Fellowship Pacific, I offer this concern: our current crisis is downstream from a deeper cultural problem. Only recently have I been able to put my uneasiness about this into words: I believe our present crisis has developed because of a conflict-avoidant approach to discussing genuine and significant divisions among...