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Did you hear the news about renowned evangelical pastor and author Tim Keller? From CT\u2019s report: Later this year, Redeemer Presbyterian will no longer be a multisite megachurch in Manhattan, and Tim Keller will no longer be its senior pastor. Keller, 66, announced at all eight Sunday services today that he will be stepping down from the pulpit. The move corresponds with a decades-long plan to transition the single Presbyterian Church in America congregation\u2014which has grown to 5,000 members since it began 28 years ago\u2014into three particular churches. His last day as senior pastor will be July 1. This plan has been a long time in the making: The transition follows a vision plan Redeemer set in place back in 1997, and preparing Keller\u2019s three successors\u2014the pastors at each of the new particular churches\u2014ended up as a helpful side effect. \u201cThis is not primarily a succession plan,\u201d Kathy Keller said. \u201cIt is a vision for not being a megachurch.\u201d Each of the three Redeemer churches will remain collegial and still partner together for programs, but will officially be their own congregations with their own leaders and elders (pending a May 20 congregational vote). They also each will plant churches in three more locations\u2014resulting in nine total daughter churches. Keller has been \u201ctypically wise and humble\u201d in how he carried out his pastoral succession, said Capitol Hill Baptist Church pastor and Keller friend Mark Dever. \u201cThis as a more constructive model than is often done where a large congregation is built very much around the personality of the preacher, and when that preacher\u2019s gone the whole thing kind of dissolves,\u201d said Dever. Dever joined assistant editor Morgan Lee and editor in chief Mark Galli on Quick to Listen about whether pastors should fight against their church becoming a megachurch, why the senior pastor should share the pulpit, and if pastors should have a say in choosing their successors.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices