Northview’s executive pastors also weighed in. The elders expressed “unwavering support” for Johnson and his family, adding: “We did do our homework and stand resolute in our conviction that this was God’s choice for our church.” “We believe the article that was written was told in an orchestrated and harmful way to create doubt about Pastor CJ’s integrity, the elder’s due diligence, and ultimately the trustworthiness of our church,” Northview’s elders said in a July 1 statement online. Yet, Northview defended its pastor and the church’s vetting process in multiple statements released online and to The Roys Report ( TRR). Flagship campus of multi-site megachurch Northview Church in Carmel, Indiana. Give a gift of $30 or more to The Roys Report this month, and you will receive a copy of “Nervous Breakthrough: Finding Freedom from Fear and Anxiety in a World That Feeds It” by Christy Boulware. Those who left reportedly cited concerns similar to those cited by former staff at Southland. Since then, at least 40 staff at Northview have left, according to Northview members and staff who spoke to Current. Northview hired Johnson in August 2021 to succeed longtime Northview Pastor Steve Poe. The former staff also claimed that Northview Church failed to perform due diligence when hiring Johnson as their new lead pastor. Specifically, the former staff accused Johnson “of speaking dishonestly from the pulpit, lacking transparency about church finances and threatening or manipulating those who questioned his ideas or leadership,” Current reported. According to The Current, several former staff at Johnson’s previous church, Southland City Church in Minneapolis, Minn., claim Johnson’s misconduct prompted most of Southland’s staff to quit in late 2020, and the church to close. The allegations concern CJ Johnson, pastor of Northview Church, a multi-site megachurch in Indianapolis with a weekly attendance over 8,800. An Indianapolis megachurch is defending its pastor, after a local newspaper reported that the pastor’s “troubling patterns of abuse” and lack of financial accountability caused an exodus of members and staff from his former church.
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