Mars Hill and the case for no mega churches
On the recommendation of a number of people I've just finished listening to the podcast "The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill" ( listen here on Spotify ). It's difficult to know where to start really but I can say that I am left with an enormous sense of disquiet, as well as the sense that the podcast should be required listened for all current and aspiring pastors. What can be learnt from Mars Hill? It would be easy to land the whole blame at the feet of Mark Driscoll and he certainly was a driving factor. However the whole 'bus' (if you listen you'll get the pop reference) could have been stopped in it's tracks early on if good people had stood up and called him to account. Driscoll may have planted the seeds of the culture but the people who surrounded him watered, tended and cultivated it to the extent that he was enabled to buy into his own hype. He was young when it all started and his elders failed him. Don't get me wrong, I believe that Driscoll...