SBC Church that Expelled Hundreds Involved in Secretive Land Deal
(Capstone Report) First Baptist Church of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida at center of a new dispute over sale of small lot valued at over $1 million as the church’s faces dwindling cash reserves and court mandated arbitration with hundreds of members church leaders expelled.
A Southern Baptist Convention church that excommunicated over 200 members in one email is now involved in a secretive land deal involving real estate worth over $1 million in downtown Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. First Baptist Church of Ft. Lauderdale sold a small portion of its land holdings following a business meeting but declined to reveal who bought the land and for how much before the congregation approved it.
The Florida Bulldog was the first to report the latest development swirling around the once thriving SBC church. According to the Bulldog, “The First Baptist congregation voted at a July 31 business meeting to sell property at 501 NE 2nd St., a 0.179-acre lot with a tear-down, two-story building, according to documents and multiple accounts. Church officials did not reveal the sales price or the buyer’s identity.
Dissident members—many of the several hundred expelled from the church for causing a division—questioned the land sale and the manner in which the church conducted the sale.
Brian Keno, a spokesman for the dissident members, said the sale highlights many complaints against the church administr- to continue reading, click here.
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