Showing posts with label Mark Driscoll ministries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Driscoll ministries. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

a question for the readers: Is Mark Driscoll still affiliated with A. Larry Ross Communications?

This might be something only a handful of my readers would be interested in, but brad/futuristguy will probably find this question interesting, and some other readers.

I noted back in 2018 that Mark Driscoll was affiliated with A. Larry Ross Communications.

But ... it doesn't seem as though there's any connection between Driscoll and A. Larry Ross Communications that I can easily find these days.  There's no mention of Driscoll in Thought Leaders lately. To be fair, it's hard to really think of Mark Driscoll as a thought leader of any kind since his plagiarism controversy, but there were reasons to doubt he was a thought leader far earlier.  The Trinity Church doesn't show up in the Ministries tab, either.

It's as though there's no longer a connection, and perhaps has not been one, between Mark Driscoll and A. Larry Ross Communications since possibly around the publication date of Win Your War.  Is this the case?


Friday, April 30, 2021

Warren Throckmorton on the elderless church of Mark Driscoll in AZ parts 2 and 3 (also 4), revisiting how neither a board of directors nor a board of advisors & accountability seemed to have restrained consolidation of powers in the Mars Hill years

Warren Throckmorton now has a multi-part series on how Mark Driscoll's newest church, The Trinity Church, has no elders and a board that seems to simply exist.

That there is a board of directors that includes men who don't attend the church may remind long-time readers who know the history of Mars Hill of the Board of Advisors and Accountability that had a Board of Overseers. 

Throckmorton has noted that Mark Driscoll Ministries is doing business as Real Faith.

The board members on Mark Driscoll Ministries are 
(1) MARK DRISCOLL, PRESIDENT
(2) RANDAL TAYLOR, SECRETARY (TREASURER)
(3) BRANDON THOMAS, BOARD MEMBER
(4) JOSH MCPHERSON, BOARD MEMBER

For the last of these names that's a name that has, in fact, shown up a handful of times here at this blog.
Throckmorton linked to some audio that Driscoll preached at McPherson's church that went away after a while but a transcript is at the following link:

There was also a listing for Josh McPherson as a Mars Hill pastor for a while, back around September 2014.

Now for Throckmorton's part three "Where's the Board?"