Mark Driscoll of Trinity church has spent $15.5M to acquire a new building to meet the demands of their expanding megachurch, according to a new report by The Christian Post.
Driscoll fled Seattle in disgrace following the implosion of Mars Hill and quickly set up a new church in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 2016, free from the encumbrances of accountability.
Growing into megachurch status in less than a decade, they announced several months ago that they’re seeing 5000 attendees across multiple services and are bursting at the seams. According to the CP:
According to the Scottsdale Progress, Trinity Church acquired the new property located at 10001 North 92nd St. on Jan. 5 for $15.5 million. The purchase included a $2,765,000 downpayment and a $12,735,000 loan financed by AG Financial Solutions, a mission-driven financial services group affiliated with the General Council of the Assemblies of God.
The two-story former office building, constructed in 1997, comes with 116,200 square feet of space and 378 parking spaces. It also housed a fitness center and conferencing facility, according to LoopNet.
The church’s legacy site also reveals that the new building will have 1500 parking spaces, 100,000sqf, room for 500+ children, and will seat 1700.
We recently covered Driscoll in our article‘Fox News Driscoll’ and Mark Driscoll Has Woman Pastor Preach At His Church, Promotes Her Message
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I get it that Driscoll has faced accusations in the past of heavy-handed administration of his Mars Hill congregation and is thus Biblically technically disqualified to teach, but he’s better than most mega-church pastors I’ve heard. In fact, he’s a great teacher who doesn’t kowtow to woke idiocy, and that’s why his church is growing rapidly.
And no, we’re not members.
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So it’s okay if he is Biblically unqualified to since he is “better than most mega-church pastors I’ve heard.” Maybe start listen to non-mega church pastors for a start. Biblically sound ones might be another place to start.
A leader teaches first and foremost by example. There is a reason the Lord made the qualifications what they are. I’ve been dealing with such a disqualified “pastor” and church members of late. Those who defrauded my Mother and myself, and a “pastor” who encouraged them to continue in their sin, and has remained so defiantly unwilling to repent and correct himself, that he tried to have me thrown in jail just to save his own posterior. That alone disqualifies him several times over, but he’s been disqualified for many years because of rebellious children. By God’s standard, he should’ve been removed long ago. And it’s very obvious where those certain children learned their rebellious ways.
If you don’t take the qualifications seriously, then that alone is evidence that you’ve been taught wrong. If almighty God says it, you’d darned well better be taking it seriously. He knows a bit more than we do (and that’s an understatement of infinite proportions)
It’s track record. Both that “pastor” and the church members have used excuses that essentially amount to meddling in our affairs. They did what they did because they want to control us, more than they wanted to steal the money. I unleashed on them on that also. None of of the young people in this household have rebelled, gotten into drugs, slept around all over the place. But the “pastor” and those members both have such children. I said, “you’re not qualified”. Right, if they want to try to fix somebody, they need to fix themselves. I backed them off hard, but not nearly as hard as they deserve. And ended up having to share the real Gospel with a man who’s been standing behind the pulpit preaching things he doesn’t truly believe, for many years.
Example is far more important than anything. That’s how you lead. Often without even saying a single word, you lead. And if you’re not aware of it, paying attention to your actions and the results thereof, then you don’t know how to lead – indeed, you haven’t even begun to learn how to lead.
If what you do is not in line with what you say, then you’re a worthless liar and faithless coward. The ministry is the last place any such man should be.
If a leader himself is essentially sending the message “sin is good”, whatever the sin, by word or deed, he can preach against those who also say “sin is good” from now to the end of days, it it will never have the least bit of good impact at all. Nothing good can come of it. A hypocritical pharisee cannot teach anybody anything, much less lead. You can’t teach it unless you know it. And if you know it, you’ll live it.
+The particular church and pastor I’m referring to, btw, is a very small country church. And a lot smaller than one of the most solid churches I ever attended (though that’s been nearly 40 years ago, and back then there were a lot more solid churches around than there are now – who knows how messed up they are now)
Statistically you might say that mega churches are worse. But at the end of the day, whether the audience consists of ten or ten thousand, ultimately that’s irrelevant. It’s unwise to make assumptions just based on the size of the church.
What they were trying to “fix” was our financial situation. So the man drove up the cost of our house by about $100K, as a result of demanding we find a house that he personally liked (as if he’d planned the fraud all along), and then subsequently stole our equity that now stands at $194K.
Right. They rob you blind, defraud you, coerce you, enslave you, and essentially imprison you, while telling you it’s your fault we don’t have any money, all while saying they’re helping you. If that sounds to you like the ideology of a certain political party to you, a historic SBC party, you are correct. He’s a very warped man. And so is the so-called “pastor”. Like I said, they’ll give you a loaf of bread. As they steal everything else with the other hand. And smile and tell you they love you, the entire time they’re doing it.
There are no words to describe the wickedness. I, for one, have learned to appreciate God’s list of qualifications, as a result of all this mess, far more than I used to. That’s a fact. Given what’s been done, and what I’ve seen, I don’t care if they just barely miss the cut, they do not belong in the ministry. The truth is, I now know where the man learned his wickedness – from growing up in, and attending, that church his entire life. That’s exactly where he learned it.
Reminds me of this Talarico fraud who said it’s all about Matt 25, and wrongly claimed that’s how we’ll be saved. An extremely wrong interpretation of scripture, and taken badly out of context. He’s essentially claiming that Jesus contradicted Himself. (and it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if he even said as much – he’s already claimed the syrophoenician woman corrected Jesus)
Slaves are given water, food, and clothing. Right. Even given more than that – shelter and so on. Somebody should ask the wicked reprobate if he’s pro slavery.
But that’s to be expected from such wicked people. At the end of the day, it’s an excuse to sin all they want, and do whatever they want to anybody they want, as long as nobody’s missing a meal or running around naked. Using, abusing, and taking from others, committing all manner of sin in every direction, all while claiming to care. And they’ll do it even to family. They are very sick. And they haven’t always been this bad. It’s the reprobate mind. It’s the falling away. It’s been foretold. And it is happening right before our eyes.
Qualifications also include a man who is tested, seasoned, and not new to the faith. This is a good example why.
Much like starry-eyed, idealistic young liberals vs the conservatives they grow to become when they’ve been through some mess in this life. Spiritual growth is very similar.
When you’ve been through some mess, you’ll be a lot less liberal with that list of qualifications. And more importantly, understand God has been correct all along – as if we should need to be told – because, well, He’s God. Find a man who isn’t qualified, and it’s just about guaranteed that somewhere at some point he’s doing wrong to somebody. And we should care about them. But too many of us don’t care as long as it’s not being done to us personally.
And that brings it back to Matt. 25, in context with all that Jesus and the Apostles taught, such as the first and second greatest commandments, and their more detailed explanation of them in 1 John 5.
We obey the Lord because we know that’s what’s best for the least of these. It’s first about what we do to Him, and second about what we do to others. Because if we do not first love HIm, then it is impossible to love others. How do we know we love the children of God? John tells us (the Holy Spirit tells us). If we love God and keep His commandments. That’s how. And that’s the part that young Mr. Fake-arico entirely misses.
One meal doesn’t end all hunger. One drink doesn’t end all thirst. One shirt and pants doesn’t end all nakedness. It’s obedience to the Lord that makes those things lasting, not feeding a man once, but leading him to feed himself and his family for a lifetime.
And it is most certainly not a matter of checking a box on election day, then passing off our responsibilities to Caesar.
Once you fool yourself into believing, as fraud-a-rico does, that scripture conflicts with itself, that even Jesus conflicts with Himself, at that point there is no scripture at all – you can make up whatever the sam hill you want to make up and call it scripture. At the end of the day, one who does such things has done the worst to the Lord – which is to call Him a liar, and to try to take His place. And then what – he inevitably tries to take the Lord’s place in the lives of the least of these – and he inevitably fails miserably.
There’s a reason God put those qualifications in His word. I don’t care if it’s somebody we agree with or not, when it comes to politics or anything else, if he’s not qualified, he does not need to be there. What we don’t need to be doing is ourselves trying to take the Lord’s place, also calling Him a liar, believing we know better. You cannot fight sin with sin.
I’ve posted too much again. I know many are aggravated by it, and don’t necessarily blame them. Soon I will stop posting again, as the Lord leads.
I’m living in such a nightmare right now. Right. Everything has been taken from me. I’m pretty much imprisoned here. Defrauded, stolen from, coerced, enslaved. It’s all the retirement I have, and I’m not a spring chicken. But I guess it’s all ok, by fraud-a-rico’s “doctrine”, because I’m wearing clothes and not going hungry (though we’re closer and closer to that, since Dad died, and my savings have all been depleted)
Would they do the same to the Lord?
Would they want the same done to them?
That’s the meaning of Matt. 25 …
Sins against others are always sins against the Lord. Always. And all sin always affects others. Always. If you think about it and consider it, you’ll come to understand how and why that’s true. We know we love others when we first love the Lord, and keep His commandments.
Socialism, which is blatant disobedience to the Lord and near-total rejection of His standards, only creates more hunger, thirst, nakedness – and most certainly wrongful imprisonment (because it is preemptive, and inherently demands a rejection of due process and presumption of innocence – it preemptively punishes the innocent – it presumes guilt).
Critical theory, aka wokeism, is socialism.
We don’t combat that by also ourselves rebelling against the Lord and rejecting His standards. We don’t combat those proclaiming “sin is good” by also sending that very same message. We don’t fight sin with sin. That does not work. it only compounds the sin. And then we stupidly look around and wonder how the world became more sinful. Well, you know, here’s a suggestion – it might help to quit all that recompensing evil for evil back and forth. And we wonder why the overton window keeps moving more and more in the wicked direction. How smart are we?
If God put it in His word, it matters. And we’d darned well better wise up and realize it matters. If we don’t understand why, then we need to recognize that we’re a lot more stupid than God is, and that we cannot take His place anymore than anybody else can.
Consider Matt. 20:25 as it relates to God’s created order. His created order exists. It’s reality. What He puts in place cannot be removed. And it will exist whether or not anybody likes it. He gives and He takes away. None other can.
Leadership, therefore, is not anything that we need to go to any great lengths assert. It just is, and it is because God said it is, and made it so. It’s inescapable reality.
Men, we don’t have to work at being what God already made us to be. We only have to accept it. Submit to the Lord and accept it.