He is a very effective communicator-a bright, witty, clever, funny, insightful, crude, profane, deliberately shocking, in-your-face kind of guy. Mark Driscoll is one of the best-known representatives of that kind of thinking. They want to fit right in with the world, and they seem to be making themselves quite comfortable there. They’ve adopted both the style and the language of the world-including lavish use of language that used to be deemed inappropriate in polite society, much less in the pulpit. They seem to know every fad top to bottom, back to front, and inside out. In the name of connecting with ‘the culture’ they want their people to know they have seen all the latest programs on MTV familiarized themselves with all the key themes of ‘South Park’ learned the lyrics to countless tracks of gangsta rap and heavy metal music and watched who-knows-how-many R-rated movies. Worldly preachers seem to go out of their way to put their carnal expertise on display-even in their sermons. In December 2006, John MacArthur wrote a severe critique of what he referred to as Grunge Christianity Shortly after the Desiring God Conference an article entitled, ‘Counterculture’s Death-Spiral and the Vulgarization of the Gospel’, was published in Pulpit Magazine 11 th December 2006, John MacArthur wrote: Here is an extract from the sermon ‘How human was Jesus?’ (15 th October 2006).īy this time Driscoll’s foul vulgar mouth and salacious handling of sexual matters was all over the internet and widely known in Christian circles.
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Within a month of addressing the Desiring God Conference, Driscoll preached a series of sermons on Vintage Jesus. (pp 94, 96).ĭespite the flippant and vulgar nature of Driscoll’s writing, the Desiring God bookshop promoted his books. This helped us a lot because apparently a pastor using words like “penis” and “oral sex” is unusual and before you could say “aluminum pole in the bedroom”, attendance began to climb steadily to more than two hundred people a week. I was frank but not crass and did not back away from any of the tough issues regarding sex and pleasure. I printed up a nice lengthy introduction to the book, with a lot of information about sex and marriage… Each week, I extolled the virtues of marriage, foreplay, oral sex, sacred stripping and sex outdoors, just as the book teaches, because all Scripture is indeed profitable. I assumed the students and singles were all pretty horny, so I went out on a limb and preached through the Song of Solomon in the fall. Our church was still nearly all college students and singles, with a few young married couples and families with small children mixed in. Mark combines the commitment of a historic reformed vision of God and God’s work to save sinners, with a robust view of manhood and womanhood that calls for the raising up of Christ exalting men in the eldership of the church… Piper introduced Driscoll as the author of Radical Reformission (2004) and Confessions of a Reformission Rev (2006).
Driscoll participated in a panel discussion with John Piper and Tim Keller on the role of culture in preaching the gospel. Also speaking at Piper’s 2006 Conference were Dr Tim Keller and Dr Don Carson. In September 2006, Piper invited Driscoll to preach at the national Desiring God Conference on ‘The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World’. He exhorted believers to glorify God by being satisfied in God.Īt the Conference Piper must have received an early copy of Radical Reformission, and therefore he was aware of Driscoll’s flippant and irreverent use Scripture. The title of Piper’s sermon was ‘The Whole Glory of God: Governing and Knowing All that Will Come to Pass’. The Conference coincided with the release of Mark Driscoll’s first book The Radical Reformission. The relationship between the two men began in November of 2004 when Mark Driscoll invited John Piper to the Reformission Conference at Mars Hill Church. The purpose of this article is to show the close link between Pastor John Piper of Desiring God Ministries and Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, who founded the Acts 29 church planting network.
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