The judge will consider if the court has subject matter jurisdiction in the case. A church attorney filed a motion to dismiss the case, saying the court does not have jurisdiction over ecclesiastical matters and the Weemses oppose that dismissal request.
“I have never, ever in my life in 23 years, been accused of being a narcissist. I’ve got problems and issues, and I got to own my own behavior like everybody else,” said Weems. “But I will tell you what I am not. I am not someone that has no empathy that is self-absorbed and does not give away power and control.”Stovall Weems argues the church’s board of trustees orchestrated a “coup” after he said he discovered one trustee was involved in financial misconduct.
“Our adversaries attacked us publicly by falsely accusing us of violating secular laws and should therefore have to answer publicly for the consequences of their actions,” said Weems. “This is not a simple dispute between believers that ordinarily would be resolved as envisioned in 1 Corinthians 6.”Stovall and Kerri Weems recently filed a federal complaint against one of the largest church planting organizations in the country, the Association of Related Churches, or ARC.
Dino Rizzo, executive director of ARC and associate pastor at Church of the Highlands, is also named as a defendant. Rizzo was an overseer at Celebration Church until September 2021. “This case arises out of a continuing unlawful conspiracy masterminded by the defendants to protect and expand their church growth business interests and endeavors and the substantial income they generate by destroying Plaintiffs and eliminating them as perceived threats and competitors, which included engineering a takeover at Celebration Church of Jacksonville, Inc.
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