Matt Chandler placed on leave from The Village Church
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🗓️ 29 August 2022
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According to a statement by The Village Church, a woman approached pastor Matt Chandler a few months ago with “concerns about the way he was using direct messaging on social media with a woman who was not his wife.” Chandler told the church yesterday that the messages were not sexual or romantic but that they crossed a line with their “frequency” and “familiarity.” He has since been placed on a leave of absence for “disciplinary and developmental” reasons. In The Daily Article for August 29, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison offers four biblical responses to this breaking story and three bold statements for all Christians.
Author: Dr. Jim Denison
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:54.7 | Today is Monday, August the 29th, 2020, and this is the Daily Article podcast. |
| 1:01.2 | Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the |
| 1:05.4 | Denison Forum. |
| 1:06.8 | When Matt Chandler became pastor of Highland Village, First Baptist Church in 2002, the church |
| 1:12.7 | averaged 160 in attendance. Now known as the Village Church, the DFW area congregation has |
| 1:19.7 | planted multiple churches and has grown to over 14,000 attendees. Chandler was diagnosed |
| 1:26.4 | with brain cancer in 2009, but was declared cancer-free |
| 1:29.7 | a year later following medical treatment. He has written numerous books and leads the |
| 1:34.7 | Acts 29 network, a church planting partnership with more than 400 churches in the U.S. and around |
| 1:41.3 | the world. Then came an announcement yesterday that shocked everyone who |
| 1:45.1 | knows Matt Chandler and his ministry. According to a statement by the village church titled, |
| 1:50.2 | A Message to Our Church Family, a woman approached Chandler a few months ago with concerns about the |
| 1:56.2 | way he was using direct messaging on social media with a woman who was not his wife. Chandler told the |
| 2:02.3 | church yesterday that the messages were not sexual or romantic, but that they crossed the line |
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