Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Robert Morris has stepped down from pastoring Gateway Church, revisiting his role in Mark Driscoll's 2014 resignation from Mars Hill and a brief survey of his endorsements of post-MH Driscoll books
At some point Mark Driscoll’s admirers in 2024 may have to take stock of the track records of the men who have publicly endorsed him. It’s a topic I’ve written about in the past. It can seem as though it's been more than just this year where men who lavished praise on Mark Driscoll in the past have done take-backs or have had skeletons in their closet about their own moral failings in public ministry or as authors.
Monday, June 17, 2024
Mark Driscoll in 1998 "not some pansy-ass therapist", Mark Driscoll in 2024 telling one of John Lindell's sons to "differentiate" (updated)
This observation has been incubating for a few weeks since the Driscoll/Lindell situation happened.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1998/07/generation/
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By setting themselves
up against their elders, postmoderns are ingeniously adding an
anti-establishment spirit to their movement. “I really preach; it’s not just
three points to a better self-esteem,” Driscoll says. “Megachurches have
perfect services with perfect lighting. We’re a friggin’ mess.” Driscoll
delivers his sermons largely off-the- cuff, and refuses to follow a
point-by-point outline like most pastors at megachurches do. “I’m very
confrontational,” he says, “not some pansy-ass therapist.”
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