Whether or not there's a conviction remains to be seen but it's worth asking again why Mark "I see things" Driscoll didn't sense anything amiss about his buddy and wise counsel Robert Morris circa 2014-2016 when Driscoll pulled his Nixon resignation moment from Mars Hill in October 2014. It was hard not to note that last year was the tenth anniversary of Driscoll's resignation from Mars Hill and the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon's resignation in the wake of the Watergate scandal. The parallels were too much for this journalism student to not notice.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the realm of guys who helped Driscoll bounce back from 2014, John Lindell and company have decided to withdraw from the Assemblies of God denomination.
I grew up in Assemblies of God churches as a teen, and was introduced to Gordon Fee by an AG youth pastor (who also urged me to read Francis Schaeffer and Solzhenitsyn but was on the fence about Kierkegaard so ... not even remotely "normal" as Assemblies of God youth pastors go).
I haven't been affiliated with a Pentecostal denomination in decades but I don't really regret having grown up in that milieu. Blind Willie Johnson was from a Pentecostal denomination, if I recall, and Pentecostalism gave us a lot of great formative rockers in the mid-20th century (who rocked as they did by being very, very bad Pentecostals!)
Just because I have found less and less reason to write about Driscoll and associates in the last ten years doesn't mean I'm gonna pull some "I'm done" the way other bloggers have on that topic. The guy has proven too durable and influential to write off as if he doesn't matter by Christian authors who want to just swiftly get back on their hobby horses that don't happen to be Driscoll.
If what Morris has been accused of doing turns out to be provably true then the crisis of credibility Driscoll ought to have should be serious ... but I am not sure such a crisis will materialize, since it hasn't already.
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