Raleigh White Baptist Church, a small white congregation in Albany, Georgia, charged with being racist towards a black congregation that they shared their building with, was expelled from the Southern Baptist Convention Monday and will not be allowed back into the fellowship unless they repent of their sin.
Roger S. Oldham, spokesman for the convention’s executive committee confirmed with the Tennessean that the committee voted to withdraw fellowship from the church during its morning meeting in Dallas where the organization’s annual convention officially kicks offs at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center on Tuesday.
The church did not immediately respond to calls for comment from The Christian Post Tuesday.
In an April 3 statement however, the Mallary Baptist Association, which oversees more than 50 churches in Southwest Georgia, said they were first forced to expel the small white church over “racially motivated” attitudes toward the growing New Seasons Church which is predominantly black.
“The reason for this action involved the church’s un-Christian attitudes and acts toward another associational church. These attitudes and acts were racially motivated. Thus they do…
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