http://reflectionandchoice.org/2014/05/15/having-standards-makes-you-a-troll/
Garbarino shows how it seems as though blogger Tim Challies summed up Theresa of Avila via Wikipedia entry and fisked her work without giving credit to the Wikipedia entry.
What's been weird here at Wenatchee The Hatchet in the last three months is that after scrupulously documenting statements made by Mark Driscoll and others down to the minute indications in sermons and quoting materials directly Mars Hill and its extensions have spent the last few months obliterating sermons and teaching content from their media library and introducing robots.txt to their various websites. Sometimes it seems as though Mars Hill Church doesn't want people to be able to directly and accurately quote Mark Driscoll and other people within Mars Hill Church.
When Mark Driscoll says from the pulpit that there was no kids' ministry at Mars Hill Church when it started because there weren't any kids in a 2013 sermon over against his explicit written testimony that the co-founders of Mars Hill Church (Mike Gunn and Lief Moi) were men he approached to help him found Mars Hill Church because they were both good fathers (documented here) there seems to be a problem. If quoting Mark Driscoll accurately now and then to show how he has either directly contradicted himself, or to show how actions taken in the last three years seem to contradict positions articulated from the pulpit about what he didn't do and found troublesome. There are at times commenters who complain about this blog only ever having critical things to say about Mars Hill and Mark Driscoll. That's provably not true. Go scour this blog in search of anything Wenatchee The Hatchet has said about Bill Clem that could be considered negative. Or James Harleman. Or even Lief Moi. For that matter, being critical of executive leadership cannot even be taken to mean that Wenatchee The Hatchet has actually been critical of Mars Hill as a whole. Wenatchee The Hatchet has never actually said "don't ever attend Mars Hill Church". Wenatchee The Hatchet has also never condemned Mars Hill attenders or members as "kool-aid drinkers".
Instead what Wenatchee tries to do is quote people as accurately as possible and yet over the last few months it's been surprising what has been eliminated. There may merely be correlation without causation here, but it seemed that mere days after this blog post went up (comparing Mark Driscoll on the generally satanic nature of bitterness in general to his bitterness toward his wife over the lack of sexual intercourse he felt there was in his marriage in particular) that the Spiritual Warfare 2008 teaching was unceremoniously pulled. From March 17 to March 22 is slightly less than a week.
If you'd like to see how far back the menu has been trimmed down from what it once was ...
http://wenatcheethehatchet.blogspot.com/2014/03/mars-hill-church-scaling-back-homiletic.html
Possibly just a coincidence, one of the sermon series post-dating 2008 that got pulled was the 1 & 2 Peter series, the one that had that study guide that Intervarsity Press said had not properly cited material they published. More notably, the sermon series was also the one in which Mark Driscoll screamed "How dare you!?" [dead link, of course]
http://wenatcheethehatchet.blogspot.com/2014/03/on-driscoll-stating-angry-young-man.html
In years past many of Mark Driscoll's supporters have said that he has been misunderstood or misquoted or misrepresented. Ten years ago Wenatchee the Hatchet was one of those and even now there are a few occasions in which popular misunderstandings or misrepresentations of Driscoll circulate that need correction. Wenatchee The Hatchet tackled that in April 2014. Sometimes it seems as though Mars Hill doesn't WANT people to be able to quote Mark Driscoll accurately and in context over the course of some seventeen years in ministry these days. Why purge so much material if, as the BOAA so confidently stated, the executive elders of Mars Hill had been patiently enduring false accusations? Which accusations were false? The ones the BOAA basically admitted to? The BoAA itself as a whole or constituent members have admitted that:
1) there are nondisclosure agreements and that these are appropriate
2) that a contract with ResultSource was set up with MHC (advised from anonymous "outside counsel"
3) that formal charges were made against Mark Driscoll
In the last few months it seems the BOAA has basically CONFIRMED most of the accusations that have emerged in the last eight months while not addressing, at all, the allegations that Mark Driscoll plagiarized the works of others. Now it's possible to propose that that whole controversy may reflect poorly on the entire popular Christian publishing industry and that editors at Thomas Nelson and Tyndale and elsewhere should have caught things regardless of whether or not the authors themselves "made a mistake".
Could be. When Driscoll himself can't remember while he's preaching from the pulpit that the co-founding pastors of Mars Hill were dads back in 1995 mistakes seem to be getting made. Perhaps this could be explained by simply proposing that Mark Driscoll hasn't talked to Mike Gunn or Lief Moi in so long he somehow forgot these men are fathers? If so what happened to Mark Driscoll's self-described formidable memory?
Garbarino closes his recent blog post with, "It’s no wonder my undergraduates think that it’s okay to steal other people’s ideas and pass them off as their own. They’re just doing what their pastors model for them." But to go by what Mars Hill Church has been doing with Driscoll content in the last few months the policy is sweeping retroactive removal of materials quoted directly and in context. The only way Challies could fully mimic what MHC seems to be doing these days would be to pull down the entirety of the blog post Garbarino has taken to task.
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