(Wartburg) Mark Driscoll Implosion & More Bad Press

1. Twenty (20) former Mars Hill pastors seek outside mediation with Mark Driscoll and church leadership. LINK.

According to former Mars Hill pastors Dave Kraft and Kyle Firstenberg, the pastors want to bring in specialists in conflict resolution to facilitate the process.

Dr Throckmorton obtained the following statement from Dave Kraft's website

1.  I would (as would countless other former leaders from MHC) like to see Pastor Mark Driscoll publicly acknowledge that he has seen the charges, that they are true and that he will take whatever time and attention is needed to intentionally deal with the charges, which may entail a short sabbatical from work to focus on this.
2.  I would like to see Pastor Mark publicly state that he is sorry, that he has sinned, that he will deal with his past sin and make himself accountable in so doing to an unbiased group of leaders who will hold his feet to the fire on this.

2. Mark Driscoll pitches his new project: partnering with Corban University and Western Seminary to offer courses on the Bible at Mars Hill. LINK
TWW hopes that they will first teach the folks how to properly "cite" material for their papers.
3. Former Mars Hill elder Rob Smith starts a group to exonerate fired elders Bent Meyer and Paul Petry LINK and LINK
You can read Bent Meyer's story here and Paul Petry's story here.
4. Another Mars Hill member, Bryan Zug, tells current members to evacuate Mars Hill LINK and LINK

Mars Hill will not be a healthy Gospel Community for at least 2-3 years. It’s time to evacuate it in an orderly manner

5. Wenatchee the Hatchet reports that almost all of the sermons preached by Mark Driscoll before 2008 have been "driscollized" from the website. LINK
The question is why?

If Mark Driscoll wants to apologize for angry stuff he's said and done in the past obliterating the extensive audio and video evidence for what his preaching has been like over about seventeen years hardly seems like a persuasive way to get that job done.  If anything it seems dishonest and cowardly to erase any trace of practically the man's entire pastoral career.

If this is supposed to be a sign of getting rid of material from Mark Driscoll's angry young prophet phase 1) Driscoll wasn't exactly a spring chicken even in 2008 and 2) obliterating 70% of Driscoll's preached content over the course of a week is quite a purge, possibly the single largest purge of media content from Mars Hill Church websites in its history.
 

6. Former Pastor Dave Kraft explains the charges against Mark Driscoll and gets some deserved pushback from former Mars Hill deacon, Rob Smith. LINK
At Dr Throckmorton's website we read about Kraft's charges.

Mark Driscoll’s sin(s) (for many of us who know him and have worked with him) are about clear violations of I Timothy 3, Titus 1 and I Peter 5.
1.  Not being self-controlled and disciplined
2.  Being domineering
3.  Being verbally violent
4.  Being arrogant
5.  Being quick-tempered

Here is Kraft's description of the two types of people who are criticizing Mark Driscoll.

Here is a feeding frenzy in the media regarding Mars Hill Church. Those with something to say (and who are saying it) probably fit into two main camps.

For the rest, see:
 http://thewartburgwatch.com/2014/03/21/the-mark-driscoll-implosion-janet-mefferd-the-enemy-and-world-down-syndrome-day/