Post by Daniel on Feb 9, 2016 19:50:57 GMT -5
Mark Driscoll Rises from the Ashes in Phoenix
Laura Turner
While one self-involved, authoritarian, crude-talkin’ leader has been making headlines across the country, another one has quietly been coming up with plans to start his own church in Phoenix.
Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle until he resigned in 2014, announced that he was setting up The Trinity Church there on Monday via his Twitter account. (Just before this announcement, he had observed on Twitter that “Real friends are like socks. You might lose them for a while but eventually they show back up.”)
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Supporting Driscoll in his new endeavor are two other former Mars Hill staffers, Andy Girton and Brandon Andersen. As The Seattle Times pointed out, none of the three men mention their time at Mars Hill in their bios — all of which refer to their experience working in churches — which is a curious omission, because it would be difficult to find an evangelical Christian in the demographic Trinity Church is targeting who had not heard of either Mark Driscoll or Mars Hill.
Driscoll has left a wake of destruction so severe that the entire network of churches he founded had to shutter its doors. He has never taken full responsibility for his abusive tactics, never apologized to many of the individuals who he wronged, and doesn’t appear to have absorbed much of a lesson at all from his failings. But he’s back again, like a whack-a-mole. This is what happens when church leaders don’t take responsibility for their actions, and don’t engage in the kind of counseling they need: They simply pop up somewhere new to wreak the same havoc in a different place.
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Laura Turner
While one self-involved, authoritarian, crude-talkin’ leader has been making headlines across the country, another one has quietly been coming up with plans to start his own church in Phoenix.
Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle until he resigned in 2014, announced that he was setting up The Trinity Church there on Monday via his Twitter account. (Just before this announcement, he had observed on Twitter that “Real friends are like socks. You might lose them for a while but eventually they show back up.”)
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Supporting Driscoll in his new endeavor are two other former Mars Hill staffers, Andy Girton and Brandon Andersen. As The Seattle Times pointed out, none of the three men mention their time at Mars Hill in their bios — all of which refer to their experience working in churches — which is a curious omission, because it would be difficult to find an evangelical Christian in the demographic Trinity Church is targeting who had not heard of either Mark Driscoll or Mars Hill.
Driscoll has left a wake of destruction so severe that the entire network of churches he founded had to shutter its doors. He has never taken full responsibility for his abusive tactics, never apologized to many of the individuals who he wronged, and doesn’t appear to have absorbed much of a lesson at all from his failings. But he’s back again, like a whack-a-mole. This is what happens when church leaders don’t take responsibility for their actions, and don’t engage in the kind of counseling they need: They simply pop up somewhere new to wreak the same havoc in a different place.
read full article
www.christianheadlines.com/columnists/guest-commentary/mark-driscoll-rises-from-the-ashes-in-phoenix.html