Tullian Tchividjian Hired as Director of Ministry Development at Willow Creek PCA in Winter Springs, Florida
Billy Graham's grandson was the senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian church (James Kenedy's former church). He resigned from his ministry there on June 21 after confessing to committing adultery and cheating on his wife. On August 11, the South Florida Presbytery voted to rescind his pastoral credentials. Last week he announced that he is filing for divorce. This week he has been hired by another church. This is the announcement of his hiring.
We’re so delighted to welcome Tullian Tchividjian to the staff of Willow Creek Church. A graduate of Columbia International University (philosophy) and Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando (M.Div.), Tullian is a best-selling author, having written seven books on the gospel of Jesus Christ and its liberating implications. Most recently, Tullian served as the senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and founded Liberate, a ministry devoted to connecting God’s inexhaustible grace to an exhausted world. He loves the beach, loves to exercise, and when he has time, he loves to surf. He’s also a huge fan of both the Dallas Cowboys and Miami Heat.
We moan and groan that the world no longer takes the church seriously. Can it be that the problem is that the church no longer is worth taking seriously? We certainly don't seem to take sin and its consequences seriously. The church's hiring announcement doesn't even acknowledge that there might be some concerns about this man's fitness for ministry.
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil. (1Ti 3:2-7 ESV)
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