Tennessee Baptists Abolish Church Rather Than Allow Female Pastor
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The Greater Tabernacle Church will lose its membership with the local Baptist Association because it voted to have a female pastor.
“It’s hard because I know a lot of members are scared they’re gonna lose the building, scared they’re gonna lose their property,” Pastor Shonda Reynolds-Christian told NewsChannel5.
The tiny church’s 40 members voted Reynolds-Christian in after their former leader passed away.
It seems there is disagreement about what God said about the matter.
“I was called,” Reynolds-Christian told Channel5, “I just believe that God opened up the door and that’s how it happened.”
The Lawrence County Association of Baptists disagrees.
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“Because God said that,” The Baptist Association’s Minister Mark Kemper said, explaining why the church is being kicked out, “and it’s not anything we decided on our own, we take God for his word.”
Reynolds-Christian retorted she believes this is “more how man feels and not about God.”
Without its membership, the church will be dissolved. The deed on the building says the property will be given to the Baptist Association if the church is no longer a member of it, Channel5 reports.
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