Tony Evans leaves senior pastor role at OCBF, cites old ‘sin’

DALLAS — Tony Evans, who has served because the senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church for practically 50 years, introduced at providers on Sunday he can be stepping away from his duties. 

In a press release, the church mentioned this choice was made after a number of conferences between Evans and the church elders. 

“The elder board is obligated to manipulate the church in accordance with the scriptures,” the assertion reads. “Dr. Evans and the elders agree that when any elder or pastor falls in need of the excessive requirements of scripture, the elders are chargeable for offering accountability and sustaining integrity within the church.”

In a written assertion to the church, Evans mentioned the muse of the church has been its dedication to the phrase of God as absolutely the supreme commonplace of fact to which they’re to evolve their lives.

“Once we fall in need of that commonplace on account of sin, we’re required to repent and restore our relationship with God,” Evans wrote. “Various years in the past, I fell in need of that commonplace.”

Evans mentioned that, whereas he hadn’t dedicated any crime, he hadn’t used righteous judgment in his actions. 

Evans added that Pastor Bobby Gibson and church management would hold its members knowledgeable on how issues will proceed transferring ahead. 

“I’ve by no means liked you greater than I really like you proper now, and I’m trusting God to stroll me by way of this valley,” Evans concluded. “Thanks in your love, prayers, help, and forgiveness as I proceed my religious therapeutic journey.”