Mahaney and Sovereign Grace have each contributed at least $100,000 to the (Southern Baptist) seminary, according to its publications.
Things keep churning in the Sovereign Grace Ministries saga.
Joshua Harris — whose book “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” — has influenced the courtship practices of many conservative evangelicals beyond that Maryland-based denomination — has now bid farewell to its board.
Harris succeeded the embattled C.J. Mahaney as pastor of the denomination’s flagship church in Maryland. He and the Sovereign Grace board issued a joint statement saying Harris’ departure from the board was a mutual decision.
This comes a day after the board issued a statement declaring Mahaney fit for preaching even while he’s on a leave of absence as president of Sovereign Grace. That statement called Mahaney’s main accuser guilty of “public slander” for widely distributing his charges against Mahaney of “pride, unentreatability, deceit, sinful judgment, and hypocrisy.”
Harris’ name was conspicuously absent from that statement. Harris, who was mentored by Mahaney, has taken a far different tone, calling the crisis “as bad as it seems” and a sign of systematic troubles in the denomination.
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