Steven J. Lawson , a married pastor and father of four, made news last week when he was fired from Trinity Bible Church of Dallas after informing its elders about an “inappropriate relationship” he’d had with an unnamed woman. That the prolific author of books on Calvinism and religious icons allegedly committed this sin has been a shock to his Reformed Baptist followers in North Texas and across the country.
In the latest development, a California pastor this week accused Lawson of having a “five-year relationship” with a younger woman, per a story by the Roys Report on Wednesday . “He is 73. She is in her late 20s,” Phil Johnson, an elder and pastor at John MacArthur’s Grace Community in Sun Valley, where Lawson had delivered guest sermons, said in now deleted posts on X. “She is not a member of his church,” Johnson said, according to the Christian site Protestia . “In fact, she lives in a different state nowhere close to any of the ministries Steve served.”
Johnson later admitted to deleting the X posts “in deference” to the Trinity elders. “Their pastoral duty takes precedence over mine,” Johnson said in a separate X post Wednesday evening. “These are godly men, committed to the truth of Scripture, and I’m fully confident they will do the right thing. They have every right to set their own pace.”…