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Another Shiloh pastor bites the dust

Far be it from me to meddle in someone else’s church affairs, but when Shiloh Baptist in Greensboro booted yet another pastor last week, you had to wonder why.

The church has seen four pastors in 10 years.

The latest Shiloh pastor to be shown the door by a sharply split congregation was the Rev. F. Willis Johnson.

Johnson may have been in over his head from the start. He was young and relatively inexperienced. This was his first job as a head pastor.

And Shiloh is a tough room to play for even a veteran preacher.

The church has been told a consultant that it is dysfunctional but it has done little to address that.

The congregation seems reluctant to share power and downright resistant to being led by anyone short of the Good Lord Himself..

Two jobs only for the stoutest of heart: Shiloh pastor and Guilford County manager.

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Posted by Allen Johnson on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 7:45 pm

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Doug Johnson

July 2, 2009 - 6:15 am EDT

Commandment number 11, do not step on congregation toes.
You are toast, Shiloh does not have a monopoly on this.
Why do you think we have so many churches, every time a preacher says something we do not like,we take half the people and start a new church.