There is a crisis in the church planting community. Many pastors have a horrible marriage and families are falling apart, said Mark Driscoll of Seattle megachurch Mars Hill on Thursday.

Not one to mince his words, Driscoll spoke explicitly of how the wives of church planters are at least as likely to betray the marriage covenant as their husbands.

But Driscoll blames the husbands for the broken families. He blasted pastors for neglecting their wives and children and treating them as free staff rather than someone they should love and serve.

“I know thousands of pastors … maybe tens of thousands at this point,” said Driscoll at the Church Planter Acts 29 National Boot Camp in Seattle. “Very rarely do I get to know a pastor and his wife well and find a marriage that if he was married to my daughter I wouldn’t assault him.”

For many church planters, the ministry has become an idol and a measure of their personal righteousness, said Driscoll, a prominent leader in the church planting movement. Although church planters say they are working for God, for some, it is really for their own glory, he contended, because if it was really for God then the pastors would do it biblically.

The Seattle pastor shared real stories of wives of church planters who committed emotional or physical adultery, of a church planter who committed suicide, and another who was found to have pornography on his computer, leading to a crisis in his young church plant.

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