John Ortberg's 2002 If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat was a Christianity Today Book Award winner, and the 2008 When the Game is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box was an ECPA Christian Book Award winner.
11 Facts About John Ortberg
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From 1985 to 1990, John Ortberg served as senior pastor at Simi Valley Community Church, and then from 1990 to 1994 at Horizons Community Church in Claremont, California.
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John Ortberg then moved from California to Illinois to serve as a teaching pastor at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois until 2003, when he became the senior pastor at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, a multi-campus church in Northern California.
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John Ortberg has been a featured speaker at many events, including:.
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John Ortberg's retelling of his experience of playing Monopoly with his grandmother was used as the beginning narration of Peter Joseph's 2011 documentary Zeitgeist: Moving Forward.
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At that time, John Ortberg did nothing to ensure that his son stopped his volunteer activities with minors at Menlo Church.
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John Ortberg did not alert other church leaders to the situation.
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On November 22,2019, John Ortberg went on leave from his position.
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John Ortberg was reinstated after an investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing.
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John Ortberg stated that he "failed to do the right thing" and apologized for his "lack of transparency".
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Zero Abuse Project did not find any disclosure or other evidence that John Ortberg III committed any acts of wrongdoing against a minor.