Religion · Raleigh-Durham, NC Metro · August 18, 2026
Acts 29 VP Removed After Confessing Long-Term Affair
Acts 29, an evangelical church-planting network, has terminated Tyler Jones, its U.S. vice president, after he confessed to a "long-term extramarital relationship," according to The Roys Report. Acts 29 notified staff internally on Feb. 25 and confirmed Jones's termination to TRR the next day, citing a departure from "standards of integrity, transparency, and biblical conduct." Jones confessed during a Feb. 18 closed elders' meeting at Vintage Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, the congregation he founded in 2002 and led as pastor; elders voted to remove him immediately, and Acts 29 followed with termination. Acts 29 says the relationship began before Jones joined its staff in September 2022, though he held network leadership roles since 2003. Neither Acts 29 nor Vintage has disclosed the identity of the other party or answered further questions. Jones is the third senior Acts 29 leader removed for moral or conduct failures, following co-founder Mark Driscoll (2014) and CEO Steve Timmis (2020); former president Matt Chandler was also briefly stepped down in 2022 over an "unhealthy" online relationship before being restored.
Source: The Roys Report
Why Bible-Believing Christians Should Care
Scripture sets clear, non-negotiable qualifications for those who lead Christ's church: elders must be "blameless," faithful to their own wives, and of good report even among outsiders. Acts 29's repeated leadership failures — a founder expelled, a CEO removed for abuse, an executive chairman disciplined, and now a vice president terminated for a hidden long-term affair — represent more than isolated personal sin. They raise a legitimate institutional question: are vetting and accountability structures actually functioning, or are they announced after each scandal and then quietly unenforced? Christians who give to or plant under network banners should not assume a respected name guarantees biblical qualification has been verified. Repentance and restoration remain possible under Scripture, but trust in an institution must be earned through transparency, not simply asserted in a press statement.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour... — 1 Timothy 3:2
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We have to break the monopoly of captured training institutions. As the Mainline collapse demonstrated, relying on hostile institutions to train your leaders is institutional suicide. Churches have to reclaim the training function using the generational transfer model of Chapter 11, prioritizing reliable men over merely credentialed men. A pastor who knows the Scriptures and has been tested in his character is more qualified than one holding a degree from a captured institution who lacks the spine to defend the flock.
— Chapter 17, “Defensive Strategy”
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