It’s a painful tragedy, however you look at it. A most influential evangelical pastor retired early yesterday, April 10, 2018. His name was Bill Hybels, who founded the world-renowned Willow Creek Community Church in Chicagoland. There will be many conversations about this in the world of evangelicalism, but significant evangelical pastors and leaders that do participate in online conversations have not weighed in yet.
When nothing is said, people will make up their own stories. This is the elephant in the room du jour. The mainstream media and social media has said much more.
These are the statements posted by people involved in this situation (whether they were written first-person or by professional PR agents is unknown):
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