‘Acts 29’ Vice President, Vintage Church Pastor Tyler Jones terminated after confessing affair

By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Friday, February 27, 2026

Tyler Jones, vice president of church planting at the Acts 29 Network, who also served as the longtime pastor of Vintage Church in North Carolina, has been removed from both positions after confessing to a years-long “inappropriate relationship with a woman.” 

Neither Vintage Church, which was planted by Jones in 2002, nor Acts 29 immediately responded to a request for comment on Jones’ removal on Friday.

Acts 29 told The Roys Report, however, that Jones was removed due to “the disclosure of personal behavior that does not align with our standards of integrity and biblical conduct.”

“We hold our leaders to clear expectations of character and accountability,” church officials said in a statement to TRR.

The network did not provide many details about Jones’ disclosure but stated that his disqualifying “behavior occurred prior to his employment” in 2003.

According to the report, Vintage Church leaders also told the congregation earlier this week that the “extramarital relationship with a woman” started after Jones planted the church in 2002.

Jones and his wife, Kimberly, moved to the Raleigh area in 1997 after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, according to Resurgence. He worked with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at North Carolina State for five years before starting Vintage Church in the fall of 2002.

At a conference on building more faithful and effective churches in 2013, Jones contended that pastors are responsible for setting the environment of the church, and when they behave in ways that overlook the power of God in the lives of church members, they are effectively limiting the scope of discipleship.

"You're going to have to be humble men and women as you lead. If you are a teacher, it's not your word that persuades people. It's the spirit of God that transforms people," he said. "If God can use you to teach, He can use anybody to teach.”

He warned that when pastors remove the focus of their ministry from God to their own talents, they move into the realm of idolatry, which is not God's desire for His Church.

"You're just a funnel of God's grace," said Jones. "If you're a rock star talent, you've just become a golden calf."

He noted that the solution to ensure that congregations are empowered for ministry is for pastors to remain in submission to the Word of God, guard the content of their hearts carefully and apply God's Word with diligence.

The church is at great risk today, he added at the time, because "most of us are incompetent or imbeciles when it comes to applying the Gospel to our own hearts."

"If we really want to deal with the heart, all it takes is five minutes of silence and an ounce of honesty," he asserted. "Discipleship is living out the Gospel. God's primary will for you is to know Him and love Him.”