Church sex scandals are nothing new. My great grandfather was a pastor in the Norwegian Lutheran church here in the US. While attending Augsburg Seminary in Minneapolis, he fathered a child out of wedlock with a young woman who was working near by as a servant. When that bit of news leaked out, it caused a big scandal. That was in 1893.
I am truly saddened by all of this. I don’t know all the facts so I can’t really comment specifically, but I do know that once innocent gestures or comments are now highly offensive and borderline criminal. Seemingly, one can no longer interact with a woman as a female as their sensitivity is off the charts. I believe they are following a fad that encourages this hypersensitivity and “speaking up” because this makes them “powerful” and “brave”. In fact, this populist error is destroying many. There are numerous examples of women destroying co-workers or others over petty, meaningless interactions. And I am not referring to the Harvey Weinstein type of behavior.
I am even more saddened that Willow Creek has named a woman as their senior pastor. I don’t see how this is scriptural and I cannot understand for the life of me why the church is ever so eager to conform to this world in this regard. The church’s desire to reflect our culture is greatly contributing to this mess and is putting tremendous pressure on Christian families.
Quelle village!
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Who is surprised?
Mega-churches are mega-departures from the way of Yeshua as described in the NT writings.
Time to “get back.” The end of ‘the end times’ is at hand, and the gnashing of teeth will be upon us if we are not “watching” as Yeshua said in Rev. 3:3.
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I attended the Global Leadership Summit that Hybels’ church founded.
It still offers some helpful leadership advice, but most of it is not Biblical and it has taken a HUGE shift to social justice causes. It was disappointing.
Have no idea if this guy is guilty or not, but I do know that Mark Taylor, the guy who said the Lord told him Trump was going to become president, several years before the fact, said that God told him He was going to start cleaning house, in churches, and famous big ministries were going to be exposed, and their leadership removed.
Didn’t see anything on this posted.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/08/willow-creek-board-lead-pastor-to-step-down.html
Willow Creek board, lead pastor to step down
Associated Press
SOUTH BARRINGTON, Ill. – The lead pastor of a Chicago-area evangelical church that is one of the largest in the nation says she is stepping down, and the entire Board of Elders will do so by the end of the year.
In an announcement posted on the Willow Creek Community Church website late Wednesday, Heather Larson said the church needed new leadership in the wake of sexual harassment allegations against church founder Bill Hybels. In a New York Times story, former assistant Pat Baranowski said Hybels repeatedly groped her in the 1980s. Hybels denies the allegation. He resigned in April.
The announcements come as the Willow Creek Association is scheduled to host its 23rd annual Global Leadership Summit. Several speakers have backed out and over 100 churches cancelled plans to broadcast the event.
The church has eight Chicago-area locations.
Oops. Found it. Was looking for willow creek church not Bill Hybels.