The Rise and Fall of (Ministry Name Here)

The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill often missed the point, but it was occasionally compelling.

Anyone older than forty came of age in a time when Christian ministries fell because the charismatic leaders in charge slept with their secretaries or embezzled millions to fund luxury lifestyles.

The story of Mars Hill in Seattle, however, is a warning that there are other ways for a Christian ministry to tank: greed, subterfuge, covetousness, bullying, cruelty, arrogance, unchecked ambition, indifference, discreet power structures, secrets, dishonesty, or just a continued squeamish unwillingness to address relatively commonplace workplace sins. If you’ve listened to The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, you know that these are the sort of faults and sins which people are willing to overlook until they’re not–and it can be hard to predict when anyone on the inside is going to say, “I’m not going along with this anymore.”