The head pastor for a Seattle megachurch resigned on Wednesday despite being cleared of any criminal activities in a church investigation, CNN reported.
Mars Hill Church pastor Mark Driscoll announced his departure from the church after 18 years in a letter sent to the church’s board of overseers, saying that parts of his “personality and leadership style” had fostered divisiveness within the organization.
“Recent months have proven unhealthy for our family—even physically unsafe at times—and we believe the time has now come for the elders to choose new pastoral leadership for Mars Hill,” Driscoll wrote, according to Religion News Services.
Driscoll, who founded Mars Hill in 1996, was under investigation after a group of 21 former ministers accused him of plagiarism and creating a “culture of abuse” within the organization. A letter accompanying the accusations identified 25 alleged instances of him making inappropriate remarks toward staff members.
But the church said in a statement that the investigation, which entailed interviews with more than 50 sources, had cleared him of “any immorality, illegality or heresy.”
Seattle megachurch head Mark Driscoll quits after church clears him of ‘heresy’
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