Warren Throckmorton
Mark Driscoll’s Elderless Church, Part Four – Who Are the Elders?
Dee Holmes conducted a one-woman protest yesterday and today at The Trinity Church in Scottsdale, AZ. She took up a presence on the sidewalk in front of the church and loudly raised the issues of no elders, no accountability in finances and the fact that police were called to keep a family off church premises…
Read MoreMark Driscoll’s Elderless Church, Part Three – Where’s the Board?
A former staff member from The Trinity Church provided the following document to me: Notice the heading: “The ministry of The Trinity Church is ruled by God, influenced by Wise Counsel, governed by a board, led by the Senior Pastor, run by staff, and carried out by Team Trinity.” However, looking at the flow chart,…
Read MoreMark Driscoll’s Elderless Church, Part Two
On Monday, I wrote that former church members and staff told me that Mark Driscoll’s Scottsdale organization The Trinity Church doesn’t have elders. However, the organization does have a small corporate board made up of Driscoll as president and Jimmy Evans and Randall Taylor as Directors. Nonprofits must have boards so here we have a…
Read MoreKaren Swallow Prior Calls Out “Egregious Plagiarism” in Tim Clinton’s New Book
Recently, psychology professor Aaron New wrote yet again about what he called plagiarism in a new book by American Association of Christian Counselors owner Tim Clinton and writer Max Davis. He showed that Clinton and Davis lifted sizable verbatim portions of books by George Foreman without placing them in quotes or indenting them to show…
Read MoreMark Driscoll’s Elderless Church
Remember Mark Driscoll? Driscoll is the former Seattle-based Mars Hill Church pastor who was charged by 21 of his former elders back in 2014 with an abusive style of leadership. There were two groups of leaders at Mars Hill Church who were involved in deciding what to do with Driscoll. The group of elders who…
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