They doubt it’s been done before, perhaps for good reason. The Rev. Nic Gibson says it “could be a disaster.” The Rev. Harold Rayford calls it potentially “messy.”
The two ministers — from starkly different churches — plan to bring their congregations together for a joint service, where they’ll preach together, volleying back and forth in a tag-team approach. They will do this next Sunday, on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.