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Dr. Greg Dixon was senior pastor of the Indianapolis Baptist Temple for 41 years; in the early '70s, the church grew to the eleventh largest in the nation with some 8,000 members and a Christian school for grades one through college. Dr. Dixon is now Pastor Emeritus of the church and is the National Director of the Biblical Law Center, which helps churches reorganize to take advantage of their First Amendment guarantees.
In the early '80s, Dr. Dixon became convicted over the country’s political departure from the Christian culture and joined the Board of the Moral Majority, which was formed to exert Christian influence on political decisions in Washington. In 1983, after a sleepless night of prayer, he announced to his congregation that he was no longer "playing church"; as expected, this caused a sizeable drop in his congregation, and the exit of several influential citizens of Indianapolis. Undeterred, he went on to help create the American Coalition of Unregistered Churches, of which he became chairman.
Understanding the true meaning of the separation of church and state -- that government is without authority over churches -- he stopped withholding taxes from church ministers. In 2001, one of the first acts of President Bush’s administration was to seize all the real property of the Indianapolis Baptist Temple. The church survived and relocated with the help of loyal Patriotic members. Today, Dr. Dixon’s son Greg has succeeded him and is carrying on church responsibilities in a new building. Dr. Dixon experienced first-hand how the establishment media deliberately concealed and distorted the facts of the government’s seizure of Indianapolis Baptist Temple.
Dr. Dixon will be the Co-Host of the National Unregistered Baptist Fellowship at the Indianaoplis Baptist Temple October 12th through 15th, 2009.
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