Pastor Mark Driscoll Asked To Step Down From Mars Hill Church

‘Friendly fire always hurts the most,’ says Mars Hill, rebuking ‘divisive’ Acts 29 and insisting ‘making real progress’ on problems.

Update (Aug. 10): LifeWay has stopped selling Driscoll’s books at its 180 Christian stores.

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[Updated with Mars Hill rebuttal of Acts 29]

Hoping that “the name of Christ will not continue to be dishonored,” the Acts 29 church planting network founded by Mark Driscollhas removed the Seattle pastor and his Mars Hill megachurch from membership.

“It is our conviction that the nature of the accusations against Mark, most of which have been confirmed by him, make it untenable and unhelpful to keep Mark and Mars Hill in our network,” said Acts 29 in an online statement signed by Matt Chandler and other board members of the network of 500 churches.

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source: Joy105.com