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UPDATE: That was fast (around two hours). The video evidence has been removed from Vimeo; it seems clear that Mars Hill Church does not want this information in front of the public. I intend to repost it in keeping with fair use of material for commentary. In the mean time,…
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According to this report at the blog Sola Sisters, the Washington state Attorney General may investigate the questionable practices associated with Mars Hill Global. According to former Mars Hill attendee Dean Watkins: I just got off the phone with someone from the Washington State Attorney General’s Office. They have spent…
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I heard early yesterday that former League of the South board member Michael Peroutka and leader of the theocratic Institute on the Constitution quit the organization. In an article dated today in the Baltimore Sun, Peroutka is quoted as saying he quit the League. He declined to give reasons. Update: Somehow…
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Yesterday, prior to Mark Driscoll’s resignation announcement, Warren Smith posted an article at World magazine which summarizes many of the controversies surrounding Mars Hill Church. In it, Smith tells of statements made by Dan Busby, president of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability about Mars Hill. The ECFA’s Dan Busby…
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Now that Mark Driscoll has resigned, it is natural to wonder what happens next at Mars Hill Church. Succession In the summer of 2012, the church leadership considered what might happen in case Driscoll could not continue as pastor. While it is not clear if this plan was adopted, it…
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UPDATES: See updates at the end of this post. This was just posted on Mars Hill’s The City and Mars Hill’s website: Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Resignation Mars Hill Church From Mars Hill Church: On Tuesday, October 14, Pastor Mark Driscoll submitted his resignation as an elder and lead pastor of…
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Ryan Kearns and Drew Hensley, two of the nine pastors who called on Mark Driscoll to enter a elder supervised restoration plan, are starting a new church in Seattle. Earlier today, Kearned tweeted an announcement of the formation of Redemption Church. A New Church Family Forming In North Seattle Our…
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I don’t understand the approach of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability to the controversies surrounding Mars Hill Church. Two petitions signed by hundreds have called on the ECFA to address financial accountability at Mars Hill Church. Numerous people, including many former and current Mars Hill members and donors, have written…
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Houston, you have a problem. Houston city attorneys have subpoenaed everything but the air surrounding several ministers in the Houston area over an effort of those ministers to overturn Houston’s equal rights ordinance. The Houston Chronicle reports that city attorneys served subpoenas to opponents of Houston’s equal rights ordinance (HERO)…
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Via spokesman Justin Dean, Mars Hill Church is now claiming that the Global Fund was not a fund after 2012. If that is true, then how is this letter from former executive pastor Sutton Turner to be understood? Sutton Turner wrote: Our records indicate that you have donated to the…
