by WorldTribune Staff, June 5, 2025 Real World News
The progressive wing of the Southern Baptist Church (SBC) has carved out a woke empire in the southern U.S. by quietly taking over traditional Christian churches and inserting leftist ideology passed off as “biblical justice,” critics say.
The woke takeover of Southern Baptist churches has been fueled in part by Pastor J.D. Greear.
Revolver News referred to Greear as "the poster boy" for "progressive Christian nonsense. A so-called Baptist leader who wept over George Floyd" and "pushed CRT-style sermons."
Greear's The Summit Church put Faith Baptist Church in the small town of Knightdale, North Carolina firmly in its crosshairs.
It reportedly started as a friendly merger that quickly morphed into a hostile takeover.
A soon to be released documentary details how the Faith Baptist resistance took on and defeated Greear's empire.
A preview of the documentary, titled "J.D. Greear Unmasked: How Faith Baptist Church Defeated a Ruthless SBC Elite", states:
"In a small North Carolina town, faithful members of Faith Baptist Church found themselves in the crosshairs of a powerful agenda. What was presented as a 'merger' with Summit Church — led by SBC figurehead J.D. Greear — quickly unraveled into a battle for survival.
"Locked out of their building, threatened with arrest, and watching their church pushed into bankruptcy, these believers stood firm. This documentary uncovers the behind-the-scenes text messages, financial maneuvers, and spiritual warfare at the heart of a devastating takeover attempt — and the faithful resistance that followed."
The film is being put together by the Church Reform Initiative, which began as a response to “growing concerns of corruption within the local church and a call for reform back to biblical principles” with the goal of “restoring truth, transparency, and accountability in the local church and Christian organizations.”
Daily Wire journalist Megan Basham, who viewed the first episode of what will be a docuseries, noted:
"I’ve seen the first episode of this and it is phenomenal. It is explosive. What Greear tried to do, very similar to what David Platt successfully did, was to steal a non-SBC church out from under them because it sat on a very valuable piece of property. It’s an incredibly important story as this is not a one time event for big SBC pastors."
