This is a late comment, but seeing the picture of his pool, it occurs to me that getting run out of gray, cloudy Seattle might have been the best thing that ever happened to him.

agreed. And, fruit and successes were probably confused for one another. Just b/c something is “successful” by a human metric were they actually fruitful in the biblical sense? If your church has 10,000s of people but they’re all just pawns in the big game of MD’s Ego, then it’s not fruit even if it’s successful in a numerical sense.

Somewhere read his horrific abusive tirade to or on his wife it wasn’t good at all. Shows MD has NO love in heart, obviously doesn’t truly understand First Corinthians 13: just look at the fruit or lack of what did to MHC and all the people that will take a LIFETIME to recover. How can you teach God’s LOVE, Grace and Mercy when your NOT healed up yourself; which is much of our false church leaders!

I’ve thought that for a while now. If he is so abusive to people who work for him how is his home life not also in shambles? Is he a good husband & father or is he abusive to them too?

Does MD truly have any REAL relationships with Family and Friends that aren’t rooted in fear and abuse?

A while back I researched this Mega Organization and found troubling signs in reviews from employees at their headquarters. Lots of concerns about the org turning into a kind of scam, AKA Gospel for Asia. At this point I consider giving any money to a big non-profit to be simply stupid. Con men are out there and they are fishing for this kind of thing. As always, donors beware of what you cannot clearly see for yourself.

Yes, I just finished her book. I enjoyed it but I wish she had dealt with class issues a bit more. The displacement of working class men as breadwinners is an ongoing wound that hasn’t received the attention it deserves. I think it’s central to this rift.
BTW, I also read Jessica Johnson’s book about Mars Hill, “Biblical Porn.” A tough slog if you’re not an academic and I’m not. It’s unfortunate that Ms Johnson lacked an editor to make her book more accessible to a wider audience because she does have a good story to tell. It’s just buried in de-constructionist jargon.

His views of the roles of men and women are pretty well in line with much (but by no means all) of US Evangelical culture. The recent excellent but depressing book Jesus and John Wayne traces that influential movement within evangelicalism (and some of the way it seeps into American culture and politics).