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Because of the sheer volumes of money involved. A lot of these churches command sizable donation pools, as well as manpower provided through volunteer and collaboration efforts. A schism like this weakens the orthodox branch and the reformist branch alike.
That's true, but how big is the reformist branch on the point of female pastors? I'd have to imagine it's tiny. I don't think there was much discussion here.
Saddleback Church claims a membership of over 350k parishioners across 29 branches.
This is the church that's being denied reentry over its women in leadership.
Out of 13.2 million members and 47,198 churches in the SBC. I don't have hard numbers on other churches that support this, but this church, even as big as it is, is still tiny compared to the entire denomination.