Is Mark Driscoll unfit for the Office of pastor?
“Accordingly, we believe that Mark is presently unfit for serving the church in the office of pastor.” Driscoll founded The Trinity Church in Scottsdale in 2016, two years after resigning from Mars Hill at the conclusion of an investigation into his leadership.
Why is Mark Driscoll sending cease and desist letters?
The cultic activities of Mark Driscoll and The Trinity Church have escalated to a whole new level. As Julie’s guests describe on this edition of The Roys Report, Driscoll is now sending cease and desist letters, threatening to sue whistleblowers.
Is Mark Driscoll still in the news?
(Cosper has said that the rule of women will be in a future podcast, but we’re halfway through the series and they’re barely there.) * All this goes to show that Mark Driscoll is still very much in the news, but the only ones paying attention are Christian news outlets and a few weblogs.
What happened to Pastor Chris Driscoll?
Driscoll has also been the subject of criticism for his allegedly abusive behavior during his current tenure as pastor of The Trinity Church. Reports claim that Driscoll utilized the church’s security team to keep a former church member’s family under constant surveillance, forbidding any current members to have any contact with them.
The Limits of Learning from Numbers
If growing numbers do not necessarily define faithfulness, neither do growing numbers necessarily indicate compromise. Numbers are just numbers. They tell us something about a church, but not everything.
Listening to Be Confirmed
Without the pursuit of wisdom—without an understanding that God works through different church sizes and models, even different philosophies of ministry (each with corresponding strengths and weaknesses)—the result will be more tribalism and polarization.
Humble Hearts
The best response to this podcast is humility: to approach the Lord with a repentant spirit for the ways we might be complicit in self-serving leadership decisions or prone to protect institutional credibility no matter the cost to the wounded. Humility makes us teachable, willing to learn, to be challenged and convicted.
