After Mark Driscoll’s highly publicized resignation from the church he founded nearly two decades ago, former Mars Hill leaders and members are calling for a return to worship Sunday.
Kevin Potts hasn’t attended a service at his old church in Ballard for 7 years.
“I’m not exactly sure what’s going to happen when I show up to church tomorrow morning,” he said. “My purpose isn’t to show up and say, ‘Ha ha, Mark’s gone, we won.’”
Potts joined Mars Hill when only a couple hundred people attended 14 years ago. He served as a worship coordinator as Sunday crowds grew to several thousand.
In 2007, he left as Driscoll, he says, took control unlike ever before.
“Do what we say because we said it,” he described the attitude at the time.
In a Change.org petition just posted online, former pastors call for a repeal of the Mars Hill 2007 bylaws, calling them the “crippling of Mars Hill Church” by consolidating power from 24 elders to Driscoll’s executive lead.
It’s when Potts decided to quit.
“The abuse of authority by its leadership,” he remembered. “They expected unquestioning submission to their authority.”
Potts never expected to return. Now, he’s one of a handful of former Mars Hill leaders changing their mind.
“Hopefully helping that church rebuild into something that glorifies Christ.”
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