I once raised a question several years ago on a popular South Florida gospel radio show which inquired, “If a church stops operating and has to be sold, who becomes the beneficiaries of its assets?” The short answer was “no one who contributed to it and everyone who controlled it,” i.e. pastors, board of trustees or Christian conferences and associations.
Examples and outcomes of my claims include the recent foreclosure of Liberty City’s New Providence Missionary Baptist Church, as well as an ongoing trend of various South Florida churches being put up for sale, as reported by Local 10.
Historically, the Black church was the first free Black institution in America that built and gave birth to free Black institutions across America. Unfortunately, Black churches have fallen prey to poor bylaws, untrustworthy trustees, and leaders who’ve traded their Gospel anointing as prophets for greedy ambitions to make profits…