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Criswell Crisis

President resigns, alleging pastor plotted to sell school assets.

Jim Jones in Fort Worth | posted 9/05/2008 10:19AM

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Who has the authority to make such a transfer is in dispute.

Jack Pogue, head of the W. A. Criswell Foundation and a Criswell trustee, said a Dallas attorney he hired concluded that the college controls its own assets. "As a trustee of the college … it's my obligation to protect those assets," said Pogue.

But Jeffress contends that "the college and all other entities ultimately are accountable to First Baptist," noting that the church must approve all trustees. "[A]ccording to its bylaws, Criswell's membership is defined as the 'membership of First Baptist Church of Dallas.'"

Related elsewhere:

Lamar Cooper has been named interim president of Criswell College.

Associated Baptist Press, Baptist Press, The Dallas Morning News, and others have reported on the dispute between Johnson and Jeffress.

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arnold

Posted: September 05, 2008 7:36 PM


Sad. I don't know who is right or wrong but this is not the Lord's way. They need to humble themselves before the Lord and then come together in His will.

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