Well-known pastor and speaker Chuck Swindoll is changing titles at his church in Texas but not hanging up his pastor ‘hat’ just yet.
This week Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas, founded by Swindoll, announced that a new lead pastor will take over Swindoll’s position starting May 1.
Jonathan Murphy, currently chair of pastoral ministries at Stonebriar, will take over the lead pastor position. Swindoll will continue preaching but switch his title to founding pastor.
“One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit—boom!—and I’m down and out,” Swindoll said in an interview at age 75. “What a way to die.”
For 60 years Swindoll has been preaching, making him the oldest megachurch pastor in the country. Swindoll pastored two churches in Texas,…
