Hate and chaos
Jonathan Shelley Stedfast Baptist, led by hate preacher Jonathan Shelley, is at the center of a lawsuit over who controls the church and whether its funds have been misused TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editornash@dallasvoice.com Stedfast Baptist Church — now located on Denton Highway in Watauga — is a small, “independent fundamental King James only” church known around the country for the virulently and violently anti-LGBTQ video sermons its preachers post online.
Just in recent weeks, after preacher Dillon Awes posted a video declaring LGBTQ people should be lined up against a wall and shot in the back of the head, a church member was cited for shoving a protester in the parking lot of the strip center where the church is located, and church officials reported that someone had shattered the church’s glass front door and spray-painted “faggots fight back” on the sidewalk.
But it appears, based on court documents and other sources, that the chaos surrounding Stedfast isn’t just external: There is a legal battle being waged over who actually controls the church and how donations to the church are being used. History of hate Chaos, hate and attention aren’t new to Stedfast Baptist, of course.
It all started almost immediately when pastor Donnie Romero was starting out in a small home on Fort Worth’s northwest side.
