UNITED STATES
Word & Way
January 21, 2021
By Diana Chandler
The Summit Church, whose senior pastor is Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear, has retained the services of an outside firm to perform an independent review of specific actions taken by Bryan Loritts, one of the pastors at The Summit Church, in his handling of 2010 sexual misconduct allegations against his then-brother-in-law at a Memphis church Loritts pastored.
The Summit Church hired Loritts in June 2020 after completing an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations at Fellowship Memphis Church. At that time, Summit elders cleared Loritts of any wrongdoing in the case against his then-brother-in-law Rick Trotter. But in a statement on its website Wednesday (Jan. 20), the church announced that it has hired Guidepost Solutions LLC to conduct a new investigation.
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