JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Baptist Association (JBA) is seeking a member church’s resignation after the church hired a convicted sex-offender to provide pulpit ministry in January.
According to a statement by JBA lead missional strategist Rick Wheeler and moderator David Tarkington on March 2, the “pastoral staffing decision” of Christ Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in Jacksonville has caused the Florida association to initiate conversations with the congregation resulting in a “mutual understanding that it is necessary for CTMBC to leave” the association.
The person at the center of the controversy is Darrell Gilyard, a once-prominent and former Southern Baptist preacher who completed a three-year prison sentence in December for sex crimes against minors, according to the Florida Times-Union. (TAB)
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