Interview with Tullian Tchividjian on Oust Attempt

Bobby Ross Jr. of Christianity Today interviews Tullian Tchividjian on the attempt to oust him as the senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church.
The context: In March, Tchividjian was elected senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church by a 91% vote. Soon after Tchividjian’s installment as the senior pastor, a small, vocal minority has been seeking to remove him from that office. In an op-ed piece in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Tchividjian recounted that to address this issue once and for all, the church had a congregational meeting and a vote this past Sunday. A little over two-thirds of the congregation voted to keep Tchividjian as their pastor.
An excerpt of the interview:
Ninety-one percent of Coral Ridge members supported your hiring earlier this year. In the vote Sunday, 71 percent voted against ending the church’s relationship with you. That’s still a two-thirds majority, but how do you get back the support you have lost? Do you even try?
Tchividjian: It’s a bit misleading. Anybody who was registered as a member was eligible to vote. However, there were about 150 people who came on the day of the vote who hadn’t been to this church since before I got here. But they had friends who were unhappy and came back to vote with their friends.But in a church our size, my guess is, there are still 100 to 200 people who are not supportive of me.
How do I go forward? I keep pastoring the whole church. I keep shepherding the whole church. I keep preaching to the whole church. I keep leading the whole church.

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