He makes sure the good things stay in the church and the bad things go out. Well, Mitch, this has been read. The woman had come forwarded, but then later recanted her story. Pete is the son of Jill and Stuart Briscoe. Please note, our website requires JavaScript to be supported. I think one of the ways that Willow tried to reckon with the situation was to permit Bill Hybels to retire from his role at the church. To view their entire showroom online. How do we deal with claims of sexual abuse? I cant vouch for all the information because I havent researched it myself. I came out of Wheaton College, as I know a lot of kids do when youre in a Christian environment and maybe see some disillusioning things and I just, it was really a hard spiritual time for me. Its about serving God. Pete Briscoe, Stuart and Jills youngest son, was a key contributor to the ministrysteaching team from 2003 to 2021. Well, lets talk a little bit about the leadership that protected him because I think that is the question that I keep hearing over and over from folks is, How do we prevent this from happening? And I feel that way with these pastors. I have plenty of authentic friends just not at church. I just want to say this was not someone who acted on any behavior at our church, but had someone who was in the process of grooming someone else. As I look back on my own four years on staff, Im thankful for the teaching and leadership that Pete Briscoe has brought to Bent Tree, and I know that so many of us have been impacted by his attention to the Lord and quick obedience to however God leads him. So as we part ways, let us make the departure sweet. I think one of the things that happens in churches, from a deformed leadership standpoint, is requiring boards to operate in unanimity or using unity as a cudgel against people who have firm convictions about things. Theyre involved in their own issue right now. Its How do we protect the entity and the entity as expressed through the person of Bill Hybels? Once you make that decision that youre willing to protect the entity or the person in charge of the entity to the detriment of members of the body or members of the staff, youve made some poor choices that are going to have consequences. Its one of the beauties and the deformities of social media is social media is agile. I havent seen a lot of true owning, true repenting, true confessing. I know about the deleted emails. The other thing I wanted to talk to you about in you mentioned this in earlier discussion we had about the identity of elders and how so often, and I dont think its just elders, I think its a lot of the senior pastor leadership and staff that their identity tends to become enmeshed with the success or failure of the organization theyre a part of. We have an open listing for a lead teaching pastor in a what I believe is a healthy church environment. Subscribe Sign up for my daily email devotionals and to stay in touch! I would love to see Chicago experience revival. I was kind of thrust into the middle of it out of love for wanting to help my friends and man, that thing escalated pretty quickly. I think thats dangerous. WebLearn More About Pete Today - Pete Briscoe God loves you to distraction, There is nothing you can do to make Him love them more or less, And, that Life with this Lover God is rich beyond description, regardless of your performance. Now youre a lawyer. And that was how Bill deformed his accountability structure. Yeah, were all saints who sometimes sin. Leave them alone. I can see the elders (more than half of which were women), and people in general saying, It was only a hug. Briscoe Because we represent their interests. Telling another woman, how she looks in a dress and how it accentuates her body, everything up to an alleged affair, to Pat Baronowski, Bill Hybels longtime assistant, stating in the New York Times said Bill Hybels made her obtain pornography and they watched it together. This is simply a place where I share the message of Gods unadulterated grace through my preaching sermons and bible teaching. Bent Tree is a multi site mega church in the Dallas Fort Worth area thats had its own share of crises over the past several years. And its designed to be acretive, right that they gain strength over time. These little bitty people, from Willows perspective, who helped win the PR back, its a miracle. And he committed sex acts with her. The Journal Sentinel reported: Elmbrook resignations are the latest to rock evangelical Christian churches. So you can go to Amazon and enter in Boz Tchividjian and his book will pop up but you need to know what youre looking for because people who are sexual predators, they have an acuity for blending into society in ways that they dont stand out like this is not like, you know, the sexual predator in your church is not some, you know, grease ball sitting outside your kids ministry just kind of looking for a way to get at, like, thats our common image of what a sexual predator is. Those are the good guys. And the people in this story are complex characters. You have your identity rooted in something other than Christ, the centrality of Christ. And its like, now someone inside the tribe has said, Something is wrong here and it must be dealt with. And it took someone of Scot McKnights gravitas to be able to shift the discussion at Willow. I dont think I could survive the corruption I see today had I not seen so much thats good and beautiful in the church growing up. Oh Well, and I appreciate your service to the church. He even cites a conversation with Darrell Bock, a member who disagrees with the elders but who also says it is not an issue worth dividing over. How are you? That has been documented and proven through therapy notes. Continue Reading The Upper Room: John 15 Posted by Nate Murray It is simply to feed ourselves. And yet here we see a church thats ostensibly about serving God, and its about proclaiming the gospel and yet this is happening within the church. And I still havent been able to get her to visit with me. Inside their system, they need to be guarded, governed, guided. Its a serious analog for what happened at Willow. Pete has offered to I understand that the desire to have elders dealing with what Ill call Echelon or tier level, theological topics: What does the church think about, you know, for example, racial reconciliation? Mike is a dear friend and Im sad this day has come. About Stuart and Jill Briscoe Growing up in a ministry family, Pete watched and learned from his parents and witnessed the reach and power of Telling the Truth 's media outreach. Also, make sure you subscribe to The Roys Report on Apple podcasts or Google podcasts. When you think about the economic reach of an organization that was that size within evangelicalism, my goodness, even Christianity Today was scared to run articles about it. Then, I did what all good Christian college students did at that time I acquired a boot-leg copy of the drama and listened to it several times on my own. Because they were required to move by unanimity. And another womans situation, theyre in an elder board meeting, and Bill Hybels, you know, has his hand on a womans leg, and no one else can see. And theyre born knowing how to do that. I cant do this authentically anymore. And as hard as the last year and a half has been, I applaud him for that. It took a variety of forms. If you go back through Willow Creeks archives, you can see all the, you know, the authors of books who came in and were platformed at Willow Creek. And some of it also involved a culture that was willing to cover for wrongdoing. And I remember you saying once that you had gotten a manual, I think it was from the ECFA, and boy, we could talk about them. I dont think that theres anything at a mega church that innoculates it from being good. Maybe some of your listeners are familiar with that you can go on YouTube and and see what thats all about. In fact, back in the late 80s, early 90s, we went to Willow Creek and we had a wonderful experience. And Im good friends with her husband Scott Dyer as well. Yeah, thats right. So Mitch has a very unique perspective. After a failed attempt to travel alone in his truck out west, he came to church with us that very day. How do you get people to come to church when there are more authentic people in the bars? Not so much at Willow till after, because I was so wrapped up in the Harvest stuff at that time and the Moody stuff that I didnt really have the capability or the bandwidth to do much reporting about Willow. Pete reminds us that our goal is not to win arguments, but to win people. It manifested at the Human Resources level. But youre right. You know, I think, Julie, the other thing that was really whacked out about Willows elder board, and I didnt find this out until very late in the representation was they operated by design out of unanimity. And theres a lot of people asking, Is that just too great a burden to ever put on one person? How do you respond to that? So if you think of Willow as being a living thing, we are willing to put other things to death on the altar of preserving that organism. Although theres been some. And to do that, we must avoid falling into the trap of our Christian beliefs being pitted against culture in the public sphere of debate. I think, as believers, we should be standing for truth, we should not look the other way. WebLearn More About Pete Today - Pete Briscoe God loves you to distraction, There is nothing you can do to make Him love them more or less, And, that Life with this Lover God is rich beyond description, regardless of your performance. And so when these things happen, they cant just stay silent. And heres what we have to do as people leading churches, okay, you have to understand what the signs of grooming are so one of the things that I did that really helps me, my good friend, Boz Tchividjian, put out a book through his organization G.R.A.C.E. Well, one thing I did want to cover, and our time is getting to an end, but I know that you have dealt with having a sexual predator within your church. Nobody has said they had intercourse with Bill. In our church, we have a no tolerance policy. I think there were a few major events. Because it was lawyers advice, you know, and its like, where does the word of God play into our decision making? 1 talking about this. And I think it wasnt a problem, Mitch, because everybody always agreed with whatever the senior pastor wanted. It was like trying to fit a battleship through a set of French doors. The small tape recording process drew the attention of many people who were eager for a copy of the teaching they heard at church to share with friends and neighbors. And he came back and said, I cant do this anymore.. Jill and Stuart came to the States from England. However, whenever he would do that quavering voice, etc., I would wonder how he could do that for all three identical services? Stuart and Jill Briscoe have always had a passion for teaching God's Word and speaking Truth into people's hearts and moving them toward God. I think they can do it effectively. 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