The coexistence became not quite so peaceful starting last spring, after Ellison was approached by two young ladies who attended his church. If that’s history recorded we should be afraid of God.” I think they are wrong and I don’t think you can justify reading the old testament as history recorded. I don’t want to say they’re wicked people. They just exist and we’ve coexisted for 14 years pretty good. “Since I’ve been there I’ve always had this fundamentalist, Biblical literalist wing of my church,” Ellison explained. I love liberation theology and I think it’s the most authentic expression of the gospel of Jesus Christ – that God has a preferential bias toward the poor and the oppressed.”Įllison, who has a master’s in divinity from Virginia Union University’s School of Theology in Richmond, VA, and a law degree from the Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA, has pastored New Covenant for the past 14 years. I don’t see myself as an ivory tower preacher. “I do a lot of domestic violence litigation and I see that as just an extension of my life as a pastor. “My first love is the church,” Ellison said. Brian Ellison pastors a Baptist church on Detroit’s northwest side called the Church of the New Covenant.
Pastor then watches the backlash as he begins to lose members of his congregation in droves.īut let’s go back to the beginning. Pastor follows his heart and performs a same-sex wedding. Pastor leads a largely non-LGBT congregation.
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