On Sunday (Sept. 22), Mark Becker, elder at Trinity Bible Church of Dallas, addressed the congregation for the first time since lead pastor Dr. Steven Lawson was removed last week for a relationship that Lawson had with a woman who wasn’t his wife.
In a statement published on Trinity Bible Church’s website, the elders said that they “regretfully announce that effective immediately, Steven J. Lawson has been removed indefinitely from all ministry activities at Trinity Bible Church of Dallas” due to an “inappropriate relationship that he has had with a woman.”
Removal of Dr. Steven Lawson Addressed by Elder
After greeting church attenders, Becker said, “It has been a difficult week for all of us. I know that it has been a very emotional week. In a lot of sense, it’s been sobering, and a lot has happened this week.”
Becker admitted that Lawson’s removal has resulted in “a lot of questions” and said he knows that they will continue. But Becker said that as an elder, “the only questions that are really important at this point is, how is this church, how is this local body going to move forward together?”
“When this church was founded in January of 2018,” he continued, “there was a charge that if we wanted to be a New Testament Church, that there were three things that we had to do in order to be a New Testament Church.”
Those three things are “preach God’s word faithfully,” “observe the ordinances” of baptism and communion, and, lastly, “practice church discipline,” Becker said.
He went on to explain why practicing church discipline is a must in a New Testament church: “God is a God of order. He is holy. And if you’ve been called, your charge, and my charge is to be holy.”
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After reading 1 Timothy 3:15, Becker said, “If you’re a parent and you have a child, you discipline that child because you love that child. You discipline that child because you want what’s best for that child.”
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