Is ResultSource marketing firm being held accountable?
I don't see why. What they are they doing that is illegal?
In regards to the OP, I thought Barnabas Piper had a
very charitable post about Driscoll. I think grace for him is needed for him to understand his failings just as we all need grace to understand ours. Like Barnabas, I've seen Driscoll speak in person and read much of what he wrote. I agree with much of it, but I could also see some tendencies that would suggest some of this was going on underneath. My wife actually could not finish his book about marriage and sexuality. She found it very uncomfortable at some points. I planned to read it as well, but soured on it after her report.
For Driscoll it goes much further than message board postings and even the ResultSource scandal. He has former staff members coming out of the woodwork to share abusive experiences and he tends to sound more like an abusive CEO rather than a man of God leading a church.
Some of the hate directed towards him is not deserved, but I think it's time for him to step back for a while for healing and restoration as a goal.
I think, more importantly, that this sheds some light on some of the issues with megachurches. I have nothing against them personally, but there was a definitely accountability issue at play here where most of Driscoll's oversight board were pastors at other churches not directly involved with Mars Hill. The church is dwindling as Driscoll's reputation is withering, and that's not a good thing. The church should be about Christ, and not about any personality.
With that said, I definitely don't think that Driscoll wasn't used by God to bring people to salvation, and I hope folks will remember that. I see a lot of blog posts and commentary by folks he never hurt or even met.