Mark Driscoll Steps Down While Mars Hill Investigates Charges
(UPDATED) Driscoll offers 8-step solution to followers: 'Current climate is not healthy for me or for this church.'
[ POSTED 8/24/2014 12:41PM ]
MARS HILL CHURCHDriscoll announces his 'extended focus break' from Mars Hill.
[Updated with eight "next steps," direct quotes, video of announcement.]
In Mark Driscoll's first public statement since Acts 29 rebuked and removed him from the church planting network he founded, the embattled Seattle pastor announced he will temporarily step down as leader of Mars Hill Church while charges submitted by 21 former pastors against him are investigated.
He offered his church a list of eight next steps he plans to take [see bottom of this post, along with video link], acknowledging that some charges are "simply my fault, and I will own it, confess it, and move on from it as God continues to redeem me."
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GJ - DPs Engelbrecht and Patterson conspired with SP Mark Schroeder to get Ski back into the ministry when most businesses would have handed him his belongings in a cardboard box and shown him the door. Likewise - Glende: he engaged in the same behavior and encouraged/protected Ski from the consequences of their juvenile, abusive behavior.
