Acts 29 VP Tyler Jones Removed From Ministry After Confessing to Years-Long Affair
Tyler Jones, vice president of church planting at the Acts 29 Network and longtime pastor of Vintage Church in North Carolina, has been removed from both positions after confessing to a years-long 'inappropriate relationship with a woman' outside his marriage. The dual termination represents one of the highest-profile pastoral failures within the Reformed church planting movement, which was founded by Mark Driscoll and has planted thousands of churches worldwide. Jones's fall comes in the same week that Miracle Word Ministries' Ted Shuttlesworth Jr. also stepped away after confessing to adultery — extending a painful pattern of ministerial moral failure that has shaken evangelical confidence in pastoral accountability structures.
Read Full Story at Christian PostWhoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out.
— Proverbs 10:9
The pattern of hidden sin among church leaders does not invalidate the gospel they preached — but it does confirm the Scripture's unflinching warning that no one who walks in deception will escape exposure. The church's task is not to pretend its leaders are beyond temptation but to build systems of accountability strong enough to catch them before the fall becomes catastrophic.