Doug Sager, a beloved pastor who led the multi-campus First Baptist Concord church in Knoxville, Tennessee, for 20 years until his retirement in 2013, has died. He was 78.
“It seems that God has been calling His most faithful home,” Sager’s family began in a statement shared on Facebook Saturday night in an apparent allusion to the passing of evangelical icon Billy Graham just days earlier on Feb. 21.
“We are grieving the loss of our Daddy, Papa, and everyone’s ‘Brother Doug,’ but we are also rejoicing that he is now in the arms of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is most certainly being welcomed home with a ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant.’ We are beyond grateful for all of the people who have prayed and wept and waited with us, and we continue to ask for your prayers during this time.”
When Sager retired from First Baptist Concord in 2013, it was known as the largest Southern Baptist church in Knoxville with more than 8,000 members, 10 News reported.
Despite retiring from First Baptist Concord, however, Sager went on to serve as the senior pastor at Vonore Baptist Church in Tennessee where he had been for the last four years.
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