Lifeway Prominently Promotes Female Pastor to Southern Baptists
Church of the City is a multi-site megachurch with four campuses across Tenessee. They have 10 women pastors on staff (click to enlarge), but also another who is no longer publicly listed.
Kristi McLelland is a long-term member of COTC. A popular speaker, teacher, and professor at Williamson College, who occasionally preaches at the church. Previously, she was listed on the Pastoral & Ministry Staff page as a teaching pastor, but her profile is no longer active.
Curiously, the SBC still lists them as being affiliated, despite unaffiliating a a decade ago.
Yet despite her photo being taken down sometime between January and March 2025, she is still listed as a pastor by the church whenever she preaches, including as recently as April 27, 2025– after the removal.
Notably, this pastor has her own splash page on Lifeway, the publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, being a featured author and “Lifeway Woman,” who is aggressively promoted to SBC women.
She currently has 27 products for sale and is advertising five events, including conferences she will be attending and a teaching cruise.
In fact, when you click on “Bible Studies,” she, along with a long list of women authors are what pre-populates.
Similarly, in the “Books” tab, it’s also almost exclusively women, except for Tony Evans, who stepped away from public ministry after confessing to unspecified sins that required him to repent and undergo a process of restoration.
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Women are not to be pastors.
1 Timothy 3:2
KJV: A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
How can a woman be the husband of one wife? pastors are to be MEN.