Since Driscoll seems to have gotten most of the intellectual property that was associated with the former Mars Hill during its period of dissolution this isn't particularly surprising. Driscoll is working on the resurgence of The Resurgence, which is a reminder that I was going to read A Call to Resurgence before getting to Spirit-Filled Jesus.
https://theresurgence.com/
Whether this new The Resurgence will bring back his old materials about Oprah as a cult leader (possibly the more ironically themed post in light of the last years of Mars Hill and what has been written about his leadership style in the past), his response to the Ted Haggard controversy, his post on Adriana Lima as the naked virgin Catholic model, or on Jenna Jameson, remains to be seen. Possibly, those posts won't be part of the resurgence of The Resurgence. Whether Driscoll will bring back John Catanzaro's contributions to The Resurgence is also an open question. Whatever form the resurgent The Resurgence takes it will probably have to be refurbished.
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Of course leaving aside the question of what exactly it is that he is supposed to be resurging from.
The story of the Welsh revivals have long had purchase in charismatic circles in the UK; primarily around the idea that during the revival churches were so busy that the pubs were empty and so on. Of course, as a friend of mine is fond of observing, no matter how long the revival goes on eventually you have to deal with the messy and ordinary stuff of life itself.
ISTM that there's a certain segment of evangelicals who are trying to capture the 'permanent revolution' ethos that some in the tech world adopt -- with equally mixed results.
as an ex-Pentecostal from the days of my youth you've zeroed in on one of the reasons for that, I got tired of the endless revival stuff in Pentecostal and charismatic circles. The messy and ordinary stuff of life itself wasn't addressed.
Driscoll seemed on firmer ground in some ways when he leaned more cessationist not so much because I actually agree with the claims of Anglo-American Protestants who stake out cessationism as a formal position as because twenty years ago when he was less "charismatic with a seatbelt" Driscoll seemed better at addressing the "messy and ordinary stuff of life" stuff.
What the resurgence was supposed to be a resurgence from ten years ago is a legitimate question. :)
The other thing that is coming to mind is that Driscoll has rejected postmillenialism and its associated theonomistic/reconstructionist ideas over his career, and he's rejected dispensationalist/futurist eschatology with glib statements that we can't be too sure about things that haven't happened yet. But that has highlighted a problem, Driscoll has never positively set forth what his actual eschatological stance is, whether some kind of historic premil or some kind of moral conflict/typology approach or something less "American" such as amillenial partial preterism (which is more how I have tended). The point I'm trying to make is that Driscoll has been more clear about what he rejects than what he's positively for and over the last twenty years I've wondered whether he's softballed his rejection of dispensationalism in lieu of having a positive alternative to the endless panic button of American style dispensationalist eschatology because if he really explicitly repudiated the dispensationalist legacies on eschatology he'd alienate donors and supporters. I knew some pretty loyal MH supporters over the years who were pretty emphatic dispensationalists despite the fact that the MH elders never endorsed that eschatological position.
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