Elevation Church will leave the Southern Baptist Convention, taking its 26,000 weekly worshippers and its massive presence in North Carolina with it. Props to Pastor Steven Furtick-he knows it's bad for business to stay affiliated with a graceless, misogynistic, homophobic, hateful, and abusive condoning entity like the SBC. I am not a huge fan of elevation, but given that the SBC was founded on slavery and massively supported Jim Crow why would any evangelical church want to be a member of it?