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Editor’s note from CT: The Nashville Presbytery issued a statement this week clarifying some details of its process and stating that Scott Sauls has been restored to his ordination. The presbytery had temporarily suspended his ordination six months ago, after an investigation revealed “a pattern of relational, emotional, and spiritual neglect.” Sauls confessed to those findings, as well as “fostering a culture of mistrust among the [church] staff.”
The presbytery had since found that he had “engaged in intensive counseling, pursued a process of repairing injured relationships, expressed his confession and repentance to Christ Presbyterian Church, and sought reconciliation with those he had wronged,” it said. The presbytery approved of Sauls’s resignation from Christ Presbyterian Church, but he is now is in good standing and will continue as a minister in the Presbyterian Church in America.
Scott Sauls, an influential pastor and author, has resigned from the Nashville megachurch he had led for the past decade.
Members of Christ Presbyterian Church (CPC) voted to accept Sauls’s resignation during a congregational meeting on Sunday night.
Sauls had been on an indefinite leave of absence since May after apologizing for an unhealthy leadership style. A group of church leaders known as the session had asked the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) congregation to accept Sauls’s resignation.
In addressing the congregation, Sauls apologized to those he had hurt and said that he and his family would continue to serve Jesus.
“We had hoped to continue forward and help with CPC,” Sauls told the congregation during the meeting, according to The Tennessean, which first reported the news of Sauls’s resignation. “But we now believe the most merciful thing to do is step aside so the church can seek new leadership and we can seek the Lord’s will for whatever comes next as well.”
The church declined ...