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agent assess how much the church’s parsonage could be rented for, he said.
Hitt said she called four women members to alert them to attend the meeting. When she got to the meeting, she said, Taylor told the audience that he and his wife had “backed out” of the house purchase and that he had no desire to cause dissension among the members.
Then Taylor read verbatim several pages of biblical references on “gossip” and “correct conversation, “discipline of the church” and “God’s discipline.”
On Jan. 11, Hitt received what all sides at the church agree was an extraordinary letter signed by six deacons and Taylor. “We’ve never done this before,” said Mills, though he said that Baptist churches have carried out this course.
The letter said that the pastor or deacons had met with Hitt over the past several years. “In these meetings your alleged actions of causing dissension in the church, gossiping, spreading falsehoods and actions that hurt the witness of the church in the community,” the letter read, had led the church elders to decide only three “courses of action” could be considered.
One was “public confession and repentance” before the congregation at two Sunday Services. A second was to resign from the church and the third was to attend a meeting in February where a vote of exclusions would be taken.
Hitt attended the meeting. Again Taylor distributed biblical excerpts on gossip and church discipline. A heated discussion ensued and Hitt and three women left. The vote was taken and she lost, 25 to 22.
“You will be requested to not attend any meetings or functions of the church and from
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