Tullian Tchividjian Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Willow Creek (Winter Springs)=== On September 2, 2015 it was announced that Tchvidjian was hired to a non-leadership, non-pastoral staff position,<ref name = BlairCP150903>{{cite news|last1=Blair|first1=Leonardo|title=Willow Creek [Winter Springs, Florida] Church Says No Rules Were Broken in Hiring Tullian Tchividjian | date = September 3, 2015 | url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/willow-creek-church-says-no-rules-were-broken-in-hiring-tullian-tchividjian-144456/ | access-date=December 7, 2016 | work=[[Christian Post]] | quote = [Quote:] The position offered to Tullian is a non-ordained, support position. Recognizing his deposition from office, it does not involve any functions unique to the office of elder in general or teaching elder in particular. }}</ref><ref name = LeeCT160316/> as Director of Ministry Development at Willow Creek Church (PCA) in [[Winter Springs, Florida]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Blair|first1=Leonardo|title=Too Soon? Billy Graham's Grandson Tullian Tchividjian Lands New Job at Willow Creek Church | date = September 2, 2015 | url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/too-soon-billy-grahams-grandson-tullian-tchividjian-lands-new-job-at-willow-creek-church-144352/|access-date=September 2, 2015|work=[[Christian Post]]}}</ref> Tchvidjian was fired from the position at Willow Creek on March 16, 2016, following the disclosure of a second extramarital affair, one predating his earlier admitted affair,<ref>For the actual source texts summarized for this sentence, see the quote appearing in the Lee Morgan citation, ''Christianity Today,'' March 21, 2016, and in the Leonardo Blair citation, ''Christian Post,'' March 17, 2016.</ref> one that had also occurred during his previous position in pastoral leadership at Coral Ridge.<ref name = LeeCT160321>{{cite news | last1=Lee | first1=Morgan | date = March 21, 2016 | title=Tullian Tchividjian Confesses Second Affair Concealed by Two Coral Ridge Elders | url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2016/march/tullian-tchividjian-confesses-second-affair-coral-ridge.html | access-date=April 27, 2016|work=[[Christianity Today]] | quote = [Quote:] When Tchividjian stepped down in June 2015 as lead pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, he explained that he 'developed an inappropriate relationship' with a 'friend' after learning that his wife was having her own affair. His wife disputed his account, writing that his statement 'reflected my husband's opinions but not my own,' but did not offer details. / On March 13, Tchividjian confessed to a prior extramarital affair from 2014, Coral Ridge confirmed to CT. Later in 2014, one of Tchividjian's friends informed two of Coral Ridge's then elders of the affair (one elder left the church prior to this month's revelations).}}</ref><ref name = BlairCP160317>{{cite news|last1=Blair|first1=Leonardo|title=Willow Creek [Winter Springs, Florida] Fires Tullian Tchvidjian After He Confesses to Another Affair | date = March 17, 2016 | url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/tullian-tchvidjian-billy-graham-willow-creek-church-confesses-to-another-affair-159420/page1.html|access-date=April 27, 2016|work=[[Christian Post]] | quote = [Quote:] Willow Creek Church in Winter Springs, Florida, confirmed Thursday that they have fired Tullian Tchvidjian, 43, grandson of evangelical icon Billy Graham, after he revealed a previously unconfessed affair he had with another woman. / "When we heard the disclosures he made just a few days ago, the session acted within hours to end his employment at the church," Willow Creek's Senior Pastor Kevin Labby told The Christian Post in an interview Thursday morning. / "The disclosures that he made involved the fact that he had a previously unconfessed inappropriate relationship with another woman… / In a statement to ''[[The Washington Post]]'' last June, Tchividjian said he began his previously confessed affair after he discovered [his wife] was cheating on him… / His recent confession, according to Labby, contradicts that narrative. The Willow Creek senior pastor indicates that Tchividjian's newly confessed affair occurred prior to discovering [his wife's] infidelity. / When asked what prompted Tchividjian's confession, Labby said new rumors, which he is not at liberty to discuss, had come to light. }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page