Mark Driscoll, the former pastor of American mega church Mars Hill, has said his family have received death threats and have moved house three times to ensure their safety.
He told a Christian conference that people have been arrested at their home, left rusty nails on their driveway, and thrown rocks at him and his children. Mr Driscoll also said his youngest child, an eight-year-old son, was experiencing night terrors.
According to the Christian Post, the father of five told the Gateway Conference: “We’ve had a very trying season and [I’m] just trying to figure out how to be a good pastor to my family first. We all know that’s the most important thing.”
“We’ve got five kids, three boys, two girls ages eight to seventeen. We’ve moved three times for safety issues: people arrested at our home, death threats, address posted online, all kinds of things and more recently it’s gotten more severe.”
“We were in the tent all night and woke up in the morning at about 6:30 or so and huge rocks about the size of baseballs come flying at my kids 8, 10 and 12 years of age. [We] call the police and flee into the house for their safety.”
“A few days later, I think it was, I don’t even remember, a member of the media flies overhead with a helicopter and is trying to flush us out for a story and that night we’re hiding in the house my eight-year-old son comes down and he’s wearing a military jacket, he’s loading up his Airsoft rifle and he looks at me and he says, ‘Hey dad, is this jacket bullet proof?’
Mark Driscoll was originally meant to speak at the event, but decided to come as an attendant instead. He was invited share on stage by the Gateway pastor.
The former minister of Mars Hill recently resigned after being accused of bullying and dominating other people.
He’s publicly apologised for comments he made under a false name in an online chatroom in 2000, which have been perceived as homophobic, sexist and judgemental.
Driscoll’s also been accused of plagiarism, and hiring a marketing company to help his book get on the New York Times bestseller list.”
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