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Shiloh's travails

I look forward with mixed feelings to Nancy McLaughlin's closer examination in Sunday's News & Record of the continuing upheaval at Greensboro's Shiloh Baptist Church.

I have worshipped at Shiloh many times and have found the congregation warm and welcoming. Several very good friends are members there.

The church is proud and strong and historic. Many community leaders attend.

So, why has the church had so many splits with its pastors? Why is it so rarely satisfied with them?

I remember when the Rev. Greg Headen was pastor there (the man can preach).

But the church divided nearly down the middle on Headen and he left with dissident members to form Genesis Baptist Church.
As for the fate of the current estranged minister, the Rev. Willis Johnson, a judge has had to get involved.

As Nancy has earlier reported, Johnson has been suspended by the church's governing council for 90 days and cannot return to the pulpit until at least August.

The judge upheld that ruling.

I attended a funeral at Shiloh in the spring and even there could sense palpable tension in Johnson's words.

There is no peace in that valley right now.

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Posted by Allen Johnson on Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 2:46 pm

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