https://twitter.com/PastorMark/status/1147718142770044928
Fired up to preach 9@11 am tmrw @thetrinitychrch! Want these signed sermon notes after I’m done? Get on the weekly list by sending your name and address to hello@markdriscoll.org
9:05 PM - 6 Jul 2019
if you want evidence of what once was ... Jacob Denhollander has a "just in case" capture.
https://twitter.com/JJ_Denhollander/status/1148008666643226624
Now back to the original content of the post.
https://www.wthrockmorton.com/2019/07/07/want-mark-driscolls-autographed-sermon-notes-sign-up/
It got me wondering whether Charles Spurgeon would have made a similar offer. Why do I mention Charles Spurgeon? Because internal communication in the Mark Driscoll orbit at one point suggested, apparently in all seriousness, that Mark Driscoll could become the Charles Spurgeon of our era. For those who don't remember that, head over here.
Throckmorton has raised the question as to whether, depending on the contents and biblical text involved, the sermon notes were assembled by Mark Driscoll or might reflect material that was assembled by Docent Group associates who were working with and for Mars Hill Church.
Something else about Driscoll's twitter feed of interest in light of more recent blogging on the topic of Driscoll and Mars Hill.
https://twitter.com/PastorMark/status/1147188486748942337
Do you need to learn to honor God’s authority over all aspects of your life? This makes you a better Christian, spouse, parent, child, employee, and leader so that your life is blessed by God and a blessing to others:
10:00 AM - 5 Jul 2019
https://twitter.com/PastorMark/status/1147188486748942337
Do you need to learn to honor God’s authority over all aspects of your life? This makes you a better Christian, spouse, parent, child, employee, and leader so that your life is blessed by God and a blessing to others:
10:00 AM - 5 Jul 2019
Since Mark Driscoll has name-dropped Malachi by way of an image ...
That's a reminder that the Docent Group writer Jed Ostoich shared in a podcast interview a while back how one of his last projects working for Mars Hill was providing research notes for Malachi. What he shared was that he compiled a list of all the ways pastors liked to misuse Malachi in preaching and teaching and discovered, to his dismay, that all of the things that Mark Driscoll was explicitly advised not to do with the texts were what Driscoll decided to do with the texts in his preaching and teaching.
It's something that is old news by now and is itself an interview from 2018, if memory serves, but enough time elapsed after the demise of MH that at least one Docent Group contributor who was contracted to Mars Hill said stuff on the record. I'm not sure if you saw that but it's important to remind people that with autographed sermon notes from Driscoll you can't be 100% sure the research was stuff he did himself or had farmed out to Docent as, you've already noted, on a probably Mars Hill dime.
https://wenatcheethehatchet.blogspot.com/2019/04/no-compromise-radio-podcast-interview.html
All in all it's a little tough to imagine that "if" Mark Driscoll were a Charles Spurgeon of our time he'd offer to send signed sermon notes. Even when I attended Mars Hill I didn't care to have sermon notes signed by any of the pastors.
Although ... on the theme of Spurgeon ... I recall in a sermon of his about one of the Psalms Charles Spurgeon shared an adage that Caeser's horse is more proud of carrying Caeser than Caeser is to rid him. Mark Driscoll does not seem likely to be a Caeser ... or perhaps even a Caeser's horse ... but Spurgeon's observation that there are those craven yet ambitious people who will display great cruelty in their quest to have power and prestige, even of a second-hand type that seems ... some twenty years after Mother Jones mentioned Mars Hill and Mark Driscoll that comes to mind.
It may be historically interesting to close with a statement Mark Driscoll made in his Mars Hill sermon series on Malachi.
December 01, 2013
Pastor Mark Driscoll
http://marshill.com/media/malachi-living-for-a-legacy/where-is-my-honor
http://marshill.com/en/transcript/malachi-living-for-a-legacy/where-is-my-honor
MALACHI: LIVING FOR A LEGACY
WHERE IS MY HONOR?
...Mars Hill, I am convinced, utterly convinced that we are poised for the biggest year we’ve ever had. [emphasis added] And we’ve got some great leaders, and I’ve got a great honor today of sharing some of them with you. I want you to see who we’re talking about, and what they’re doing, and where they’re leading. We’ve pulled up their giving. They’re all giving, OK? They’re all serving, they’re all working, they’re all caring, they’re all trying. And you are helping them by giving generously and praying faithfully.
Incontestably 2014 was the biggest year Mars Hill ever had.
All in all it's a little tough to imagine that "if" Mark Driscoll were a Charles Spurgeon of our time he'd offer to send signed sermon notes. Even when I attended Mars Hill I didn't care to have sermon notes signed by any of the pastors.
Although ... on the theme of Spurgeon ... I recall in a sermon of his about one of the Psalms Charles Spurgeon shared an adage that Caeser's horse is more proud of carrying Caeser than Caeser is to rid him. Mark Driscoll does not seem likely to be a Caeser ... or perhaps even a Caeser's horse ... but Spurgeon's observation that there are those craven yet ambitious people who will display great cruelty in their quest to have power and prestige, even of a second-hand type that seems ... some twenty years after Mother Jones mentioned Mars Hill and Mark Driscoll that comes to mind.
It may be historically interesting to close with a statement Mark Driscoll made in his Mars Hill sermon series on Malachi.
December 01, 2013
Pastor Mark Driscoll
http://marshill.com/media/malachi-living-for-a-legacy/where-is-my-honor
http://marshill.com/en/transcript/malachi-living-for-a-legacy/where-is-my-honor
MALACHI: LIVING FOR A LEGACY
WHERE IS MY HONOR?
...Mars Hill, I am convinced, utterly convinced that we are poised for the biggest year we’ve ever had. [emphasis added] And we’ve got some great leaders, and I’ve got a great honor today of sharing some of them with you. I want you to see who we’re talking about, and what they’re doing, and where they’re leading. We’ve pulled up their giving. They’re all giving, OK? They’re all serving, they’re all working, they’re all caring, they’re all trying. And you are helping them by giving generously and praying faithfully.
Incontestably 2014 was the biggest year Mars Hill ever had.
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