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Originally Posted by CC1
A sad situation. The good news is that a church can recover. In a city I used to live in a church had a bad church split that like this was an embarrassment to the body of Christ. Before it played out when the embattled pastor would ask the church to stand during service the half with him would and the half against him would not. Eventually he left but not before the church had split with many of those against him leaving.
I wondered if the situation could be repaired and felt it would be many years for that church to heal but the new pastor was an amazing man of God who quickly brought the church together in unity and it became a great witness in that town with a lot of new converts, etc.
It will be interesting to see what happens here. Some key points to ponder are what kind of financial shape is TPC Memphis in? Is the physical plant paid for or is there a large debt to service? If there is a lot of debt and it was based on running around 800 people then they may be in big trouble based on the earlier people leaving and now this split.
With the latest group leaving does anybody know how many they are running on Sunday's now?
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I heard it was a wealthy church?
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