The Tempest - Episode 11 - The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill
Mars Hill grew dramatically in 2012, and it seemed like nothing could stop the church’s ever-widening expansion. Pastor Mark Driscoll’s book Real Marriage released that January, hit The New York Times Best Seller list, and launched a book tour and a series of television appearances that brought him into countless new homes and churches. But in the next two years, the church would experience endless controversy, turn over almost all of their staff, and discover that no efforts at PR or spin could hide the rot of a deeply dysfunctional culture of leadership.
The second-to-last episode of this series is a two-and-a-half-hour look at those final two years, especially between October 2013 and October 2014, to look at exactly what brought down one of America’s fastest-growing churches, and how some of the characters whose lives we’ve followed in this series weathered the turmoil.
The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill is a production of Christianity Today
www.christianitytoday.com/ct/...
It’s executive produced by Erik Petrik
It’s produced, written, and edited by Mike Cosper
Additional editing by Resonate Recordings and Matt Linder
Joy Beth Smith is our associate producer
Music, sound design, and mixing by Kate Siefker
Special thanks to Ben Vandermeer
Graphic design by Bryan Todd
Social media by Morgan Lee and Kara Bettis
Editorial consulting by Andrea Palpant Dilley
CT’s Editor in Chief is Timothy Dalrymple
Our theme song is “Sticks and Stones” by King’s Kaleidoscope
The closing song this week is “O How the Mighty Have Fallen” by The Choir
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Mark is now making a comeback in some circles. We need to warn people to mark and avoid this man! Don’t drink the kool aid!
So sad. “People are dangerous” is the mantra for narcissists. Praying for all of those so affected. Thanks for this series. We all know we’re supposed to look to Jesus alone, but that’s hard to do with so many powermongers in sheep’s clothing.
Why is Jesse- a former Christian leader- swearing so much?! That’s so weird to hear a Christian leader speaking with so much profanity.
I would also like to add that if Mark had no qualms about using the "God told me" card at the end regarding a "trap" set out for him, then it is entirely possible that God also never told him to start that church to begin with! It's possible, and even clear, that the whole thing was born simply out of his own selfish desire to create his own empire!
What an entire joke this whole mess is. The guy (Jesse) complaining about the Harvard guy and constantly Eff-Bombing and explaining how he "hates" him. Not surprising we have these business men in our "churches" who are entirely UNQUALIFIED in any spiritual sense. A total joke it is and not surprising in these last of the last days reprobate "churches" that are 100% NOT matching what The Church...The Body of Christ actually is. And we all sit there like dumb bleating sheep...in the well padded chairs, enabling these wolves. God help us...God save us for what we have become and how we have shamed you and your Son's sacrifice.
This church was not built on the biblical strength and truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ! It was built on the shaky foundation of a very flawed un-biblical narcissistic!
I'm concerned once people refer to themselves in third person
I'm so relieved to hear that Tim didn't sign that stupid document. I would have told him to pound sand. LoL
Wow. The irony. I lost track of Mark around the time all of this went down. How absolutely childish was his behavior going to MacArthur's conference and pulling the, "God told me it was a trap" card instead of submitting to church discipline. Crazy. It's even crazier that he reinstated himself to the ministry and that he has a congregation under his leadership now.
To shock of no one Driscoll has NDA's and a massive multi-million fund of church money just to sue and send cease and desists letters at his new place in AZ. It doesn't take much web searching to find story after story. Also while I heard the guy who leaked the William Wallace II controversy wasn't doing it for goodness but spite I simply do not care, what goes around comes around and I have no issue with Driscoll getting backlash for the utterly awful stuff he said back then and no doubt still believes to this day.
I was just listening to this guy, Mark on tiktok.😢omg .my son told me to listen to this series.. I was shaken to my core.god is great .I'm not blind know more.
Christian men threatening someone to resign or private personal information will be posted on the internet? Not Christian at all.
absolutely horrific. How can the people in Scottsdale attend this man's church? He's doing the same thing down there. He's a monster!
This is all so sad, there needs to be a lot of true and humble repentance from driscol
WOWWWWW. Unbelievably good job with this series. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
This CT series has some excellent psychological insights, but is short on basic Scriptural teaching on church leadership, especially that of Paul in 1 Tim 3, where even deacons must have proven character BEFORE serving, let alone elders.
This is very, very good journalism. NPD no doubt.
It's clear that Driscoll hasn't learned from his past mistakes and continues to make them. He WILL answer to God, like we all do.
Yes, indeed: "The most controlling people are the most fearful."
❤ best insight of this episode