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More than two months after announcing James River Church’s split from the Assemblies of God, Lead Pastor John Lindell has offered additional insight into what sparked disaffiliation and shared his plans to step down in 2027.
Megachurch Pastor Michael Oakes is counting his blessings after he and his entire family escaped flash flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas last Friday, which has claimed the lives of more than 100 people in the state's Hill Country region.
Just over a month before police found him dead in his car in Frisco, Texas, Michael Rigsby, a beloved 26-year-old musician for The Bridge Frisco, was warned by a doctor that if he didn't see a cardiologist within two days, he could die, according to his mother, Kim Cooks.
Leaders at Pastor J.D. Greear's 12,000-member multi-campus The Summit Church are defending him and the organization after a docuseries on their failed merger with Faith Baptist Church in Knightdale, North Carolina, suggested the megachurch used questionable tactics in a bid to take over the non-denominational church and its 30-acre campus valued at an estimated $25 million.
Some members of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, mounted a strong protest outside the church on Sunday, a week after elders announced they asked Senior Pastor Brady Boyd to resign.
Cindy Clemishire, the woman who alleges she was sexually abused by Gateway Church founder Robert Morris in the 1980s, beginning when she was just 12, has filed a defamation lawsuit against the Southlake, Texas, church and Morris seeking over $1 million.
Former megachurch pastor Francis Chan, who founded the We Are Church house church network in 2011, says he stepped away from the megachurch model of worship due to a confluence of reasons.
