Mark Driscolls legacy is ashes; by the beginning of 2015, Mars Hill will be no more.
  • Mark Driscoll's legacy is ashes; by the beginning of 2015, Mars Hill as we know it will be no more.

Wow. It seems that without Mark Driscoll to head up the church, Mars Hill Church simply couldn't continue. From the Mars Hill site:

Following much prayer and lengthy discussion with Mars Hill’s leadership, the board of Mars Hill has concluded that rather than remaining a centralized multi-site church with video-led teaching distributed to multiple locations, the best future for each of our existing local churches is for them to become autonomous self-governed entities. This means that each of our locations has an opportunity to become a new church, rooted in the best of what Mars Hill has been in the past, and independently led and run by its own local elder teams.

We recognize this reorganization plan is a significant and complex undertaking on many fronts; however, our goal is to have the process completed by January 1st, 2015.

That's an awfully short time frame in which to establish a fleet of neighborhood churches, isn't it?

(Via Warren Throckmorton at Patheos.)