ILLINOIS
Sight Magazine
24 April 2018
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER
RNS
As the allegations against former Willow Creek Community Church senior pastor Bill Hybels mount, his congregation is trying to cope – spiritually and practically.
During services on Sunday, Steve Carter, the church’s lead teaching pastor, recalled standing onstage less than two weeks ago with church elders and praying over Rev Hybels, who has denied several accusations of misconduct with women.
Rev Carter told the congregation how he watched the founding pastor of the Chicago-area megachurch walk offstage afterward — and keep going.
This past Sunday, Rev Carter, standing on that same stage, his voice breaking at times, delivered a message about Joshua, who, in the Bible, succeeded Moses to lead the Israelites into the Promised Land.
Rev Carter said he felt a “profound sense of sadness” because “we were supposed to enter the Promised Land together. There was more work to be done.”
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