INDIANAPOLIS – When federal marshals seized the Indianapolis Baptist Temple in 2001, strapping the church’s leader to a gurney and rolling him out of the sanctuary, the congregation’s future seemed bleak.
But 5 1/2 years later, the temple is flourishing. The congregation’s massive new home is a former athletic club in Southport; a new sanctuary sits where there once were three indoor tennis courts.
The temple’s revival is “a modern-day miracle,” according to the Rev. Gregory A. Dixon, who watched as his father, the Rev. Gregory J. Dixon, was wheeled from the congregation’s old church in 2001 during a raid that made national news....