The Gateway Conference has been held annually for several years at the massive Gateway Church facility. Robert and his wife Debbie have been married 34 years…" He is the bestselling author of 11 books, including The Blessed Life, From Dream to Destiny, The God I Never Knew, and The Blessed Church. Robert holds a doctorate of literature and serves as chairman of the board of The King’s University. and more than 200 countries around the world.
He is featured on the weekly television program, The Blessed Life, broadcast to approximately 100 million homes in the U.S. Since it began in 2000, the church has grown to more than 36,000 active members. Robert Morris is the founding senior pastor of Gateway Church, a multicampus, evangelistic, Spirit-empowered church in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. So who is Robert Morris? According to his church bio, Interestingly, Matt Chandler, who succeeded Mark Driscoll as president of Acts 29, heads a network of congregations in Texas that make up The Village Church. Robert Morris is the pastor of Gateway Church, a huge multi-campus church in Texas. Right away, we knew we had to do some digging on this conference and its organizers. Driscoll spoke of death threats and attacks on his home. However, Morris did ask Driscoll to come up on the platform and address the audience. Morris explained that Driscoll was to speak at the conference, but given the recent circumstances, he and Driscoll agreed that he (Mark Driscoll) should not be a conference speaker this year. On the opening day of the Gateway Conference, Mark Driscoll was recognized by the conference organizer Robert Morris. We are striving to remedy that situation. Your blog queens have been falling down on the job because that event has not been on our radar screen at all. As we shared a few days ago, Mark Driscoll attended the Gateway Conference earlier this week. Now that he is no longer embraced by The Gospel Coalition, Acts 29, or Mars Hill Church, where will he go for camraderie? They also look to church planting pastors such as Matt Chandler, Darrin Patrick, and me.ĭriscoll's relationships with leaders of the Neo-Cal movement appear strained to say the least. Carson, and Wayne Grudem for theology, along with Tim Keller and Ed Stetzer for missiology. Emerging Reformers look to contemporary men such as John Piper, D. A. Packer, Francis Schaeffer, and John Stott. In addition to evangelical beliefs, Emerging Reformers have a commitment to the Reformed theological tradition as shaped by such historical figures as Augustine, Martin Luther, John Calvin, the Puritans, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, along with such broadly recognized evangelical leaders as Billy Graham, J. I. Here is what we find under this category: Driscoll described 'four lanes' of emergent leaders and identified with those who are 'emergent reformers'. It was also published on the Resurgence website. In order to clarify his position, he wrote an article that appeared in the Christian Research Journal.
You may recall that there were some questions years ago regarding the emergent label. Mark Driscoll, whose mantra has been "It's all about Jesus" appears to have made yet another theological shift. Robert Morris – Screen Shot from His Twitter Account Robert Morris recognizing Mark Driscoll at the 2014 Gateway Conference starting at the 1:15 mark (link) Mark would you stand up? This is Mark Driscoll." I'd like for you to show your love for him, and I'd like for you to just welcome him. It's very sad that in the church we're the only army that shoots at our wounded, and I want you to stop it. One is, we could crucify him, but since someone's already been crucified for him… The other choice is we could restore him with a spirit of gentleness considering ourselves lest we are also tempted.
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