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January 18, 2006
Mark Driscoll....interesting.
I saw this over at Mark Driscoll's blog today:
In the mid-1990s I was part of what is now known as the Emerging Church and spent some time traveling the country to speak on the emerging church in the emerging culture on a team put together by Leadership Network called the Young Leader Network. But, I eventually had to distance myself from the Emergent stream of the network because friends like Brian McLaren and Doug Pagitt began pushing a theological agenda that greatly troubled me. Examples include referring to God as a chick, questioning God's sovereignty over and knowledge of the future, denial of the substitutionary atonement at the cross, a low view of Scripture, and denial of hell which is one hell of a mistake.
I have been hearing a lot about Mark Driscoll, and I have been waiting to read his book Radical Reformission, but just haven't had time yet. Very interesting.
HT: Emergent No
Posted by rhett at January 18, 2006 03:55 PM
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I would HIGHLY recommend Driskoll's book. I found it very thought provoking and loved it very much. I think that you would like it to given your pentient for the Emergent Church. I think he deals with the issues that the Emergent Church does yet in a different way.
Posted by: sofyst at January 18, 2006 05:10 PM
This isn't as interesting as you might think. I say this because I listen to the Mars Hill podcast pretty frequently. From Driscoll's preaching it is easy to see how much of emergent theology would stretch him. I guess it's all a part of that 'generous orthodoxy' thing, huh?
In the meantime, I enjoy the Mars Hill podcast and I would categorize myself firmly within the emergent crowd theologically. I don't know what boat that puts me in!
Posted by: clave at January 18, 2006 07:02 PM
Driscoll is an intersting guy and he has quite a reputation amongst Pac NW churches. Doing some great things with his Acts 29 church planting organization.
I understand Driscoll's wariness of some of the theological leanings of guys like McLaren and Pagitt. HOWEVER, these days I am less and less "protestant" towards people who I may not line up with theologically. And actually, it's one thing that I am finding has hurt the church the most. In the recent history of the church the "ad hominem" tendencies of theological fundamentalism has caused many theologians/pastors to dismiss great thinkers like Karl Barth and Leslie Newbigin and others.
I appreciate Driscoll for a lot of things and probably agree with the whole of his theology more than I do McLaren and other "emerging" voices, but his theological arrogance rubs me wrong.
Posted by: brandon at January 19, 2006 10:25 AM
wow, that "beliefs" page is a bit long. i think we should have a contest to see if someone can find a christian faith organization who's "beliefs" or "core values" list consists of two items:
1-Love God.
2-Love Others.
i'm glad mark has at least been able to keep himself busy with all the details.
Posted by: Zach at January 25, 2006 08:42 PM
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