In the event of a church split....

I was reading a church constitution on line.
The church is affiliated with the SBC, It stated that it would take a 3/4 vote for the church to pull
out of the SBC. BUT if the vote was NOT unanimous - then the faction wanting to stay in the SBC
would retain the building and heritage of the church.

Thus it would appear that if just one person was to vote to remain in the SBC - that one individual
would retain the building!

Open for discussion

 

I think the reason is that if another group came in - with the purpose of getting out of the SBC and keeping the building.
I actually saw that happened, at a church I was at in Germany.
The pastor resigned, because of his wife's health - to get her back Stateside (where she died about 2 months later) We asked an IFB pastor to preach for a couple of weeks - people liked him - so he became intern pastor. (he could not be the pastor as he had not attended a SBC school) while our interim - he was talking to a very small IFB church - got them to come over and they all joined -as well as getting a few current members on his side. Vote was taken and they changed the constitution and elected him pastor. There were about 25 of us who decided to leave everything - in spite of all the work we had put into that building. We started a new church. If only if had that provision in our constitution.

 

Depends on the church - usually it is 2/3 or 3/4 but it could be 51% or 90%
But what does that have to do with the OP?

 

But the whole point is to protect a SBC church from being forced to leave the convention due to a small faction. If the faction does not like the SBC - they can leave and start a new church.
Besides if it is just a small faction and the Constitution calls for at least a 2/3 vote - then it wont happen.