Dr. Richard Land is the head of the public-policy entity of the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, but on most Sundays he can be found in the pulpit at Red Bank Baptist Church.
“I solicit interims,” said the president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. “I can preach every Sunday somewhere. I can speak 50 Sundays at 50 churches, but it’s satisfying and gratifying to preach to the same people every week.”
So how did the Nashville-based Land, who in recent weeks spoke on ABC’s “This Week” and then commented for the denomination on the death of Osama bin Laden, wind up at Red Bank Baptist?
“They asked,” he said.
The Red Bank post is actually Land’s second interim pastorate in the Chattanooga area in the last three years. In 2008, he served as the interim pastor at Brainerd Baptist Church for 11 months.