Mark Driscoll, the pastor of Mars Hill Church, has long been a polarizing figure among Christians. In fact, when you type [Mark Driscoll] into Google, the first autofill suggestion is [Mark Driscoll controversy]. That's because he's stirred up so many. Needlessly.
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Praying for our president, who today will place his hand on a Bible he does not believe to take an oath to a God he likely does not know.
Before that there was Driscoll's “>litany of insensitive and offensive comments about Catholics, Jews and Muslims.
All of which leads Merritt to this point:
I hope that Driscoll is having a change of heart, that he is reconsidering his past behavior and changing course. But the book’s jabs and the way he’s chosen to promote it seems to align more with the pattern of behavior he’s displayed for years.
So I agree with Driscoll’s book on its core message—Christians should learn to pick their battles better—but with such a long pattern of divisive rhetoric, name-calling, searing sarcasm, and downright offensive insults, I’m not convinced he’s the right messenger to carry it forward. If Mark Driscoll wants Christians to stop infighting, maybe he should start with himself.
(That seems particularly the case when just this week–that's right, after Driscoll began promoting his new intra-church peacemaking book–Driscoll “>here.
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