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Posted on 10/16/2014 8:51:32 AM PDT by Cecily
Less than a year ago, Mark Driscoll, an evangelical pastor, was flying high.
His hometown Seattle Seahawks were in the Super Bowl, and the brash pastor scored a big, faith-fueled interview with five of the team's top players, including quarterback Russell Wilson.
But in a remarkably fast fall from grace, Driscoll resigned Tuesday as pastor of Mars Hill Church, a congregation he founded 18 years ago and turned into a force in the mostly secular Pacific Northwest.
In a statement, Mars Hills' board of overseers said Driscoll hadn't committed any acts of "immorality, illegality or heresy" -- sins that have felled many a powerful pastor.
Instead, the board said, Driscoll is guilty of "arrogance, responding to conflict with a quick temper and harsh speech, and leading the staff and elders in a domineering manner."
Driscoll was not asked to leave, the board added, saying they were "surprised" to receive his resignation letter.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine
he was known as the CUSSING Pastor
Thou shalt not cuss!;-)
And the a_a_ sex pastor as well.
Driscoll is an extremely capable man, and has taught and written some valuable stuff. If God uses this to add the quality of sincere humility and soft dependence, good can come of it. Thinking there are many pastors and church leaders who could use a whuppin’ with a humble stick.
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Damn sounds like they were describing shrillery and moochelle!
ONe thing that really hurt Driscoll was the disclosure that he spent $200 grand of the Church’s money to get his book on the NYT bestseller list. Something which has been done by several other megachurch pastors.
I couldn’t stand the man. He just grossed me out when he would write about sex and about his wife’s butt.
I attended there once. When he spoke, he was constantly looking at the back wall of the building to the point I thought his sermon notes were projected on it. But I asked the sound guy and he said, “No, that’s just the way he does it during the sermon.”
wut?
No one can call himself your pastor if he doesn’t know your name. Mega-churches are self-defeating.
and lambasted the supposed rise of “male lesbians;” “feman,” (men who act like women, in his definition); and “men who allow their wives to nag at them.”
He once said that mainstream Christians had turned Jesus into a “Richard Simmons, hippie, queer Christ,” and a “neutered and limp-wristed popular Sky Fairy of pop culture that ... would never talk about sin or send anyone to hell.”
So he was forced out for his effective leadership of a very large enterprise.
And I suppose he's, nevertheless, agin' the gays?
I’m sorry that all this has happened. Pride does go before a fall, but when my 11 yo daughter was dying to read the Twilight series, it was Marc Driscoll’s informative and humorous YouTube video on the subject that convinced her that Twilight wasn’t something she wanted to put into her brain.
Did you even bother reading the article?
1. He resigned, unexpectedly. He was not "forced out."
2. He admitted and repented of several serious sins which negatively affected the congregation. His leadership, on the whole, was far from "effective."
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