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If you want to help us continue doing this kind of work, consider joining today at /MarsHill. Subscriptions to CT are one of the best ways to support this kind of journalism. We’ll talk about faith, doubt, and celebrity, and discuss how Christians might think about their own doubts and deconstruction, recognizing them as a normal part of the Christian life. In this bonus episode of The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, we’ll explore Josh’s story as a contemporary of Mark Driscoll, someone who was his polar opposite in temperament, and whose struggles in ministry led to a divergent outcome. He left ministry in 2015, and in 2019, he announced that he no longer identified as a Christian. But when that movement was torn apart by controversy, conflict, and accusations of a systemic cover-up of child abuse, he found himself reeling, unsure of his calling and convictions.

The book sold millions and made him, in Collin Hansen’s terms, an “evangelical boy wonder.”Īt 29 years old he became the lead pastor of a Maryland megachurch and a rising star in Sovereign Grace Ministries. Love it or hate it, if you grew up in a youth group after 1997, you probably had to reckon with Joshua Harris’s I Kissed Dating Goodbye, his treatise on dating and courtship.

I survived kissed dating goodbye