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SBC 2026: 5 key resolutions passed in Orlando

By Michael Gryboski, Editor

1. Assisted suicide

A resolution “On Assisted Suicide and the Sanctity of Life” urged the SBC to “reaffirm our unwavering commitment to the sanctity of human life from conception until natural death, recognizing that every human being bears the image of God and is therefore deserving of protection, dignity, and care.”

During discussion on the resolution, Pastor Glenn LaRue of University Baptist Church of Middletown, Ohio, offered a friendly amendment noting that “a person outside of Christ immediately enters into intensified eternal misery upon death, and a person in Christ has the help of the Lord to persevere faithfully in suffering and bring glory to God.”

LaRue was quoted by Baptist Press as saying his amendment, which passed, is a “vital, direct counterargument” to the reframing of assisted suicide as compassionate “because it cannot be compassionate if we are accelerating and sealing someone’s eternal destiny in Hell if they are lost."

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