A month after returning to teaching following a suspension over using a horse whip on a man who visited his church office more than a decade ago, Brian Tome, the founding and senior pastor of Crossroads Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, says he is transitioning out of his role.
During his Sunday sermon, Tome announced that he is "going to take a different job at Crossroads." "I am going to become the founding senior pastor," he said. "My old job as the top, head honcho at Crossroads thats making calls and pushed the church forward is going to go to Kyle Ranson. He is going to go from being our lead pastor to senior pastor. He is going to have my old title.
He has all of my old authority and responsibility. He is going to take my seat on the board." Tome said he is not leaving the congregation, but will be freed up to pursue camp ministries, his podcast and speaking engagements. The new arrangement between Tome and the church is a five-year, annually renewable contract, he said. "You are not getting rid of me," he said. "I am going to be around.
I came to realize that my job as senior pastor, as I've known it, was my Egypt. It was the thing I knew; it was the thing I understood. It was the thing that I was good at. … But the thing about our Egypts is, we have to get out of our Egypt if we want to get to the promise land." Tome initially broke the news of his role transition in a Sept.
30 email cited by The Cincinnati Enquirer. “I greatly missed being around you all. I missed exercising my gifts in leadership and teaching,” Tome wrote. “But the previous role and day-to-day