![]() That included remarks MacDonald made insulting his critics, which were aired by Chicago radio host Erich “Mancow” Muller a lawsuit (eventually dropped) against two bloggers and their wives, along with freelance reporter Julie Roys, who have all written critically about MacDonald and years of controversy over MacDonald’s leadership style and the church’s finances.Įarlier this month, Harvest elders announced MacDonald is “biblically disqualified” from the position of elder and can never return to the church he founded decades ago as an elder or pastor. Harvest Bible Chapel, which has seven locations across the Chicago area, has faced fallout since firing MacDonald in February for conduct its elders described at the time as “contrary and harmful to the best interests of the church.” ![]() ![]() We want to follow the admonition in Micah chapter 6, verse 8, to do justly, to love kindness and to walk humbly with our God,” Stoner said. “It is our sincere desire to do the right thing even when it is hard, and in the process, to see the Lord repair what has been broken and to move us to a deeper and sweeter walk with Jesus. That team asked Wagenmaker & Oberly to review the church’s finances and management practices to “determine what might’ve gone wrong and to put forth corrective policies and procedures to get us on the right course for the future,” according to Harvest treasurer Tim Stoner. The report comes at the request of the Harvest 2020 team of congregants, staff, elders and outside professionals formed this spring to review the church’s oversight, accountability and transparency. ![]() The report by Chicago-based law firm Wagenmaker & Oberly pinned that failure on MacDonald’s “powerful and subversive leadership style,” his development of an inner circle of leaders through which he could control the church, his marginalization of the church’s elders and other leaders and other “aggressive tactics” by the former pastor.Īnd it’s “most glaring” when it comes to the church’s finances, according to the report. A “massive corporate governance failure apparently developed over several years” at Harvest Bible Chapel primarily because of its former senior pastor, James MacDonald, according to a report released Thursday evening (Nov. ![]()
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