High school pastor Shane Sisk speaks Wednesday night in the River’s Edge service at Long Hollow Baptist in Hendersonville, which also has campuses in Gallatin, White House and Springfield. / SAMUEL M. SIMPKINSThe finest church that Rolus Smith ever knew was the Lord’s Chapel.
For more than 15 years, Smith was an elder of the 2,500-member Nashville congregation. Crowds packed the church on Granny White Pike, drawn by its contemporary music and charismatic practices such as speaking in tongues. The Rev. Billy Roy Moore’s sermons made the Bible come alive.
Then it all fell apart.
Moore moved away after his son died in a car crash. People dropped out rather than shift to a new, 50,000-square-foot church seven miles away. When the Lord’s Chapel finally closed down in 2003, there were 40 people left.
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