![]() ![]() However, Mike Brisky, who manages Morris’s office at Gateway Church in Dallas, Texas, told The Roys Report that Morris doesn’t provide oversight for Driscoll’s church, and hasn’t for some time. ![]() In the video, Morris was identified as “wise counsel” to the church. “I love you man, I respect you, I honor you.” Morris told Driscoll in a “special birthday message” on a video posted to The Trinity Church’s Facebook page this past October. Morris also publicly supported Driscoll less than eight months ago. ![]() Also named as a director is Randal Taylor, who’s a chief strategist at a leading Christian marketing firm, Dunham and Company.Īs recently as this past February, Morris, Evans, and Taylor were named on the website as providing “wise counsel,” but now their names have been removed. Jimmy Evans is named as a director of Trinity Church on the church’s articles of incorporation. Morris stated at the time that Driscoll was “going through a difficulty that most of you have probably read about.” Morris then claimed that not everything on the internet is true and added, “There are some pastors, myself included, and some others that you would know, that were speaking into his life - and he’s listening.” Jimmy Evans of XO Marriage Just days after Driscoll’s resignation, Morris welcomed Driscoll to speak at a Gateway Church conference, urging attendees not to believe everything they read on the internet. Robert Morris also was the first to give Driscoll a platform after Driscoll resigned in 2014 from Mars Hill Church in Seattle for a pattern of “arrogance” and abusive leadership. However, when the church first launched in 2016, Evans and Morris were on a non-local governing board for Trinity, and Osborne was named as “wise counsel” for the church. Gateway Church Senior Pastor Robert Morris The Trinity Church has never had a local board with authority over Driscoll and no elders are listed on the church’s website. The three high-profile pastors Freese emailed were named in his open letter as “overseers” for Driscoll. They need each of you to take action.” Megachurch pastors ongoing support “The Trinity Church family needs honest, loving, pastoral care. Give a gift of $30 or more to The Roys Report this month, and you will receive a copy of “Wounded Workers: Recovering from Heartache in the Workplace and the Church” by Kirk Farnsworth. He continues to hurt many people and it is now getting out of control. “.However, the last year he has proven he never truly repented nor changed. “We all came into Trinity with a clean slate for Mark, thinking he changed from his Mars Hill days,” Freese wrote to the pastors. including mishandling the reporting and investigation of possible child abuse.” The email also links to an open letter to Driscoll, detailing the accusations.įreese addresses Driscoll directly in the open letter, alleging a slew of questionable behaviors ranging from fostering a toxic culture to avoiding oversight implementing over-the-top security measures out of distrust and paranoia harassing others and allowing subordinates to do so and mishandling a case of possible child abuse. In an email to the three pastors obtained by The Roys Report, former head of Trinity Church security, Chad Freese, alleges that Driscoll and his staff have committed “immoral, unethical, and unbiblical behavior. ![]() Now, the former head of security at Driscoll’s new church in Scottsdale, Arizona-The Trinity Church-is pleading with these pastors to act. Yet, several high-profile pastors who have longtime supported Driscoll have stayed silent, including Jimmy Evans of XO Marriage, Robert Morris of Gateway Church, and North Coast Church’s Larry Osborne. Several outlets, including The Roys Report, have recently published numerous allegations of abuse and financial misconduct concerning disgraced former Mars Hill Pastor Mark Driscoll. ![]()
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