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Mars Hill Church to Dissolve into "Autonomous Self-Governed Entities"

Paul Constant
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NOW I will stand up and dance a gig! The Demonic Beast is DEAD!!!!!
Cato the Younger Younger on October 31, 2014 at 1:12 PM Report this
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Today is a good day.
david jw on October 31, 2014 at 1:19 PM Report this
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Very good news. Hopefully this will be a bit of a wake up call to the flock and they'll start trying to figure out who has stolen all their money.
fletc3her on October 31, 2014 at 1:21 PM Report this
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I feel sorry for the congregants, to some degree, but I'm hugely relieved to see the end of the Empire of Driscoll.
deadrose on October 31, 2014 at 1:33 PM Report this
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Have to disband quickly before anyone finds out where all the money went. Driscoll is probably headed to Texas with a U-Haul full of Benjamins.
ratcityreprobate on October 31, 2014 at 1:37 PM Report this
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I think this is most positive in the sense that it will stop their ceaseless real estate grabs. Some churches have truly earned their property tax exemption through years of community outreach and support—to the best of my knowledge, Mars Hill is not one of them.

This may not change the politics of the individual churches, but at least the corporate monster has gone to sleep.
Dougsf on October 31, 2014 at 1:37 PM Report this
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497 years to the day after Reformation Day, another richly-deserved schism.
MarcVH on October 31, 2014 at 1:55 PM Report this
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Isn't this is a strategy to protect the church from the shit storm of impending law suits? Probably including those from Driscoll himself?
tkc on October 31, 2014 at 1:58 PM Report this
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Cut off one head of the hydra, several more grow back.
Banna on October 31, 2014 at 2:07 PM Report this
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My Slog poll vote counted! Finally!
6 on October 31, 2014 at 2:09 PM Report this
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Good riddance, and no, I don't feel sorry for the congregants. What did they expect?
David Tatelman on October 31, 2014 at 2:19 PM Report this
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What @5 said. A little reorganization is a great way to cook the books, not to mention loot the coffers. This is a little like the private equity guys who buy a conglomerate, spin off the pieces and somehow walk away with the employees' accumulated retirement trust. They'll just set it up as severance payments, and presto, totes legal.
Brooklyn Reader on October 31, 2014 at 2:29 PM Report this
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@12 Wouldn't surprise me either. Perhaps board members will "stay on in an advisory role." Nobody votes themselves out of a job.

Still, let's keep our eye on the ball. All we've got so far is a re-org and they sent the biggest dick to go work at the field office for a while, we deserve a Jimmy Swaggart-level conclusion.
Dougsf on October 31, 2014 at 3:26 PM Report this
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Is it too late for a mass suicide? I mean this is kind of anticlimactic.
SchmuckyTheCat on October 31, 2014 at 4:38 PM Report this
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Is Driscoll's face really that lopsided? Or is that Instagram's dumb evil fucktard filter?
Clara T on October 31, 2014 at 8:45 PM Report this
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"That's an awfully short time frame in which to establish a fleet of neighborhood churches, isn't it?" Unless I missed something, they're not planning to "establish a fleet of neighborhood churches." They're cutting everybody loose and saying "Form your own damned church." No fleet here.
NotYourStrawMan on November 1, 2014 at 10:35 AM Report this
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Hopefully this marks a merciful end to The Stranger's Mars Hill fetish.

Of all the things in this world I don't give a shit about, Mars Hill and Jesus are right up there with Israel and Palestine.
CPN on November 1, 2014 at 4:04 PM Report this
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Can we please all get together on this and convert the Ballard space into a bowling alley? Kickstarter or something? I am poor but surely someone with cash money can help us out right?
Stiff on November 2, 2014 at 3:50 PM Report this

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