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John Carl Ortberg Jr. (born May 5, 1957) is an American evangelical Christian author, speaker, and the former senior pastor of Menlo Church in Menlo Park, California, an ECO Presbyterian church with more than 4,000 members.
Ortberg has published many books; his 1997 The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People sold more than 500,000 copies as of 2008. 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. Ortberg's Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus (2012) debuted at #29 on Christian Book Expo's bestseller list in November 2012.
Ortberg resigned as pastor of Menlo Church in Summer 2020 after it an investigation disclosed that he had allowed his son, John Ortberg III, to continue volunteer church work with minors after the son had disclosed having experienced unwanted thoughts of attraction to minors, allegations that had arisen in late 2019, initially without identifying the volunteer in question.
Ortberg has published many books; his 1997 The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People sold more than 500,000 copies as of 2008. 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. Ortberg's Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus (2012) debuted at #29 on Christian Book Expo's bestseller list in November 2012.
Ortberg resigned as pastor of Menlo Church in Summer 2020 after it an investigation disclosed that he had allowed his son, John Ortberg III, to continue volunteer church work with minors after the son had disclosed having experienced unwanted thoughts of attraction to minors, allegations that had arisen in late 2019, initially without identifying the volunteer in question.