Posted on 08/30/2021 2:16:10 PM PDT by 11th_VA
(RNS) — Services at an influential Nashville-area megachurch were disrupted Sunday (Aug. 29) after the wife of the church’s founding pastor stood up and accused his successor of conspiring against him.
During a 9:00 a.m. service at Grace Chapel in Franklin, Tennessee, pastor Rob Rogers apologized to the congregation for an ongoing conflict with the Rev. Steve Berger, Grace Chapel’s founder.
Berger, who nearly three decades ago founded the church — whose members include Tennessee Governor Bill Lee — stepped down as lead pastor in order to start a discipleship program for influencers in Washington, D.C.…
The apology from Rogers was repeatedly interrupted by outbursts from the congregation — including one church member who called for a prayer of repentance. After that prayer, Sarah Berger got hold of a microphone, walked on stage and began berating Rogers, who she said had not repented “for sinning against my husband.”
“It has been made manifestly evident that there’s been an endeavor to cancel the founding pastor of Grace Chapel,” she said. Berger accused Rogers and Bright of labeling her husband as a “Christian extremist” and said the couple would be leaving the church, where Steve Berger had assumed an advisory role as “founding pastor” after naming Rogers as his successor. Steve Berger caused controversy following the Jan. 6 insurrection, blaming antifa activists for storming the Capitol. Berger, who had been in Washington that day to attend a pro-Trump rally, later apologized for those remarks during a Facebook video…
Several high-profile churches have seen private disputes go public recently, often involving the successor of a well-known pastor. McLean Bible Church faces a lawsuit… At Bethlehem Baptist in Minneapolis, the successor to influential pastor John Piper resigned over the summer after ongoing internal conflicts in the church and a school Piper founded...
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I’ve been thinking of NC as a possible retirement place. (Husband wants mountains, I want ocean; and the OBX is probably my favorite place in the world.)
Both but I wouldn’t own a place at the beach. Too much risk of natural disasters. The mountains are the best of all worlds. Rent at OBX. It is really cheap off season
Yes, I’m too old to run from hurricanes - my family lost a house down there when a storm cut a new inlet.
But I’d like to be a lot closer - from here it’s about a 7-hour drive (if you actually stop to eat and pee :-)
That’s why I rent at the beach and live in the mountains
Good for you :-)
(Didn’t there used to be great Bluefish runs down there, in the Fall?)
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