![]() This was all detailed in Amy Smith’s Watchkeep blog here and here. Karen provided the texts and emails to prove it. In 2015, he was one of The Village Church pastors involved in the Karen Root (Hinkley) debacle, and was accused of pressuring Karen to submit to church authority. His ministry career has not been without controversy. He served there until 2008, then joined the staff of The Village Church, where he served until 2018 as the Northway Campus Pastor. He also served as interim pastor of Beltway Park Baptist Church from 1997-98, before moving back to Dallas and becoming a teaching pastor at First Baptist Church of Dallas in 1999. Steve had previously worked at Lake Pointe Church in the early 1990’s, as a youth pastor, before starting the popular Grace Bible Study in Abilene in 1994. (Brady Traywick, Chris Kennedy, Luke Norsworthy, Jeremy Kirles) A lot of those names you would probably recognize. There were a lot of future pastors that went to that bible study in the 1990’s, and almost all of them went to Hardin-Simmons. Before long, the weekly Grace Bible Study was bursting at the seams as students from not only Hardin-Simmons came, but also students from Abilene Christian University and McMurray College. He was also attending Lou Giglio’s ‘ Choice Bible Study.’ He decided, however, to make a career change and moved back to Abilene to lead worship at Grace. Jeff, an Abilene native, was living in Waco at the time & teaching at Baylor University. They held their first meeting in January of 1994, with about 80 students in attendance.Īccording to this Baptist Standard article, a fellow Hardin-Simmons graduate joined him – an international economics teacher by the name of Jeff Berry. ![]() In the fall of 1993, Steve made arrangements with University Baptist Church to use their auditorium, and Grace Bible Study was born. He packed up his young family and headed west, with no sure plan in place, other than he had a vision and he was sure it would all work out when he got there. He felt God was calling him to return to Abilene, to his alma mater – Hardin-Simmons University – and start a ministry for college students. In 1993, a young pastor by the name of Steve Hardin was serving as a youth pastor at Lake Pointe Church in Rockwall, TX.
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