Josh Buice Issues Apology after False Accusation against Fellow Church Leaders
Josh Buice has issued an apology after making false accusations against fellow church leaders, including Voddie Bauchum and Tom Ascol of Founders Ministries.
“In a past critique of Voddie Baucham and Founders Ministries, I made unsubstantiated and sinful remarks, including leading questions that lacked evidence and called into question the good reputation of my good brother Voddie Baucham,” Buice said in a statement posted by G3 Ministries on Friday.
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— G3 Ministries (@G3Conference) May 16, 2025
Last week, G3 Ministries removed Buice as its president while his church, Pray Mills Baptist Church (PMBC), removed him as an elder after revealing that he had slandered fellow pastors and PMBC elders, using anonymous social media accounts.
“The elders of PMBC uncovered irrefutable evidence that Dr. Buice has, for the past three years, operated at least four anonymous social media accounts, two anonymous email addresses, and two Substack platforms. These accounts were used to publicly and anonymously slander numerous Christian leaders, including faithful pastors (some of whom have spoken at G3 conferences), several PMBC elders, and others. These actions were not only sinful in nature but deeply divisive, causing unnecessary suspicion and strife within the body of Christ, and particularly within the eldership of PMBC,” the G3 board said in a statement at the time.
Buice had also sent an anonymous tip to The Roys Report (TRR) in December 2024 under the name “Tom Smith” alleging that Baucham was using a ghostwriter to write his book ‘Fault Lines’ and asked what he did with the $1.4 million that was raised on GoFundme to cover his medical expenses. In 2021, the online campaign was launched after Baucham underwent quadruple bypass surgery after he was treated for “full-blown heart failure,” in which he had traveled from Zambia to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, in a near-fatal health crisis.
“The operation, by a cash patient, would have been no more than $300,000,” he noted.
Buice also pointed out that Baucham was moving back to Florida to partner with Ascol on staff for the newly launched Founders Seminary, with its first semester beginning this fall.
“People should know where the money is if they gave it for an emergency operation, and it’s being used for something else. That’s deceitful,” he argued.
Buice, in his statement, admitted that he had been “deceived by the deceitfulness of sin” and followed down a path that “dishonored God to unjustly align faithful men and ministries through an unrighteous, critical spirit cloaked in anonymity.”
“The details originally shared with me were without merit,” he added. “The accusations proved to be unfounded — false claims that should have never been used to criticize Voddie Baucham, Tom Ascol, or Founders Ministries.”
Buice also shared that he met with Baucham in the past week and “personally asked for his forgiveness” while he also plans to do so with others “in the days to come.”
“I also humbly ask for your forgiveness, recognizing that my actions have caused confusion and division,” he concluded.
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Originally published May 19, 2025.
