Popular
author and preacher Francis Chan was recently questioned by fellow
pastors who tried to wrap their heads around Chan's decision to leave
his megachurch.
Francis
Chan, former senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley,
Calif., addresses questions about his decision to let go of his church
and follow a stirring in his heart. The discussion included Pastor Mark
Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle and Pastor Joshua Harris of
Gaithersburg, Md.
"I'll be honest. Everybody thinks you're cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
You got a good church going on and you hit the eject button and now
you're the international man of fu Manchu mystery," said Pastor Mark
Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle.
"What is going on? What are you thinking?"
Chan
announced in April that he would be letting go of Cornerstone Church in
Simi Valley, Calif. - a church he founded 16 years ago - to follow a
stirring in his heart. He preached his last sermon there in May and has
since been speaking to Christians and pastors alike about his
restlessness with comfortable Christianity and his desire to surrender
himself fully to God.
Responding to Driscoll
during a frank discussion - that also included Pastor Joshua Harris of
Gaithersburg, Md. - about his decision, Chan said, "A lot of it is
personal. A lot of it is when I look at the Scriptures I see this
commitment, this devotion, this hardcore 'we will follow, we'll do
anything, we're all about going out and making disciples.'"
He
said he wanted to start over and get a core group of disciples who just
try 100 percent to follow the life he felt was clearly spelled out in
Scripture.
"While I feel like I'm getting
closer and closer to what the spirit is leading me to do based on my
convictions of Scripture, I don't think I can totally get there by
constantly tweaking," he explained.
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SOURCE: The Christian Post
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