6 Ministers Fired After E-mail Against Baptist Pastor
- November 10, 2008
FBC Ocala
OCALA – One year ago this month, Dr. Mark Cummins arrived in Ocala as the new pastor at one of the community’s biggest churches.
Having arrived at the First Baptist Church of Ocala from South Florida, Cummins took to his new role as spiritual and administrative leader of the flock there with the intensity, discipline and can-do attitude of a former U.S. Marine, which he was some 20 years ago.
After nearly a year of scouring the country for a new pastor, a First Baptist search committee had recommended Cummins as the replacement to the Rev. Ed Johnson, who had shepherded First Baptist for more than two decades and was somewhat of a living legend in Ocala’s faith community. Cummins was discovered by accident — or perhaps divine intervention — and offered the youth and vigor the committee wanted in replacing Johnson.
But some top lieutenants at the church have taken exception not only to the style of leadership Cummins introduced at one of Ocala’s most prominent Protestant houses of worship but to the substance as well.
And a brewing behind-the-scenes controversy at First Baptist quickly came to a public boil on Sunday, spilling over into the pews and, according to several church members, leaving its large congregation divided over their pastor and anxious about the church’s future — even though many of the rank and file remain in the dark about how it all came about.
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You know, this is one reason why people look at “Christians” as being a bunch of fakes! Here you have a bunch of grown men acting like a bunch of morons!
This is a shame…