Mars Hill pastor responds to uproar over blog posts on women

(P)MSNBC ^

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A protest in Ballard Sunday against an Evangelical pastor's rhetoric about women was called off after a local citizens group said the pastor agreed to tone it down, if not abandon his philosophy.

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Go read the actual story to get the context, but here are some of his quotes.

"A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband is not responsible for her husband's sin, but she may not be helping him, either" -- after haggard affair

"Father, Son and Spirit. But some chicks and some chickified dudes with limp wrists and minors in 'women's studies' are not happy because two persons of the trinity have a dude-ish ring."

"if Christian males do not man up soon, the Episcopalians may vote a fluffy baby bunny rabbit as their next bishop to lead God's men."

I'm sure many won't like him, but all you calvinist freepers with a sense of humor should listen to sometime. Church: http://www.marshillchurch.org/ Media: http://media.marshillchurch.org/ Pod/Vidcast Feeds: http://www.marshillchurch.org/feeds/ Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Driscoll

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Church: http://www.marshillchurch.org/
Media: http://media.marshillchurch.org/
Pod/Vidcast Feeds: http://www.marshillchurch.org/feeds/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Driscoll

[TommyDale]

I was relieved to see that this was not Mars Hill, NC but Mars Hill in the State of Washington.

[bahblahbah]

Yeah, there's a lot of "Mars Hill"s. I can think of a grad school in Seattle and a Mars Hill Bible Church in Michigan right off the top of my head.

[Mr. Brightside]

Not the Mars Hill mega church in Grand Rapids, Michigan?

[ArrogantBustard]

"Father, Son and Spirit. But some chicks and some chickified dudes with limp wrists and minors in 'women's studies' are not happy because two persons of the trinity have a dude-ish ring."

BRILLIANT! The man has a way with words.

[Tamar1973]

It's annoyingly obvious the writer has no clue about Christian hierarchy. The article states that Pastor Driscoll's church will promote women to "deacon".

Women aren't called to be "deacons", IMO, however, a woman can be called to be a deaconess.

[blue-duncan]

I went to college at Mars Hill when it was a junior college back in the 60s. A beautiful place.

[mockingbyrd]

So what exactly here is supposed to offend me?

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

everything.

[mockingbyrd]

noted.

[uptoolate]

"Protest organizer Paul Chapman, who also founded a group called People Against Fundamentalism

You've got to be kidding me. Now we have a group called People Against Fundamentalism?

That's it. Attention everyone.

I've just founded a new group. It's called:

People Against People Who Are Against People

[uptoolate]

It's annoyingly obvious the writer has no clue

In particular, Chapman and his supporters mentioned earlier entries from Driscoll's blog, one of which suggested to some that the wife of evangelical leader Ted Haggard was partly to blame for his contacts with a gay prostitute.

"A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband is not responsible for her husband's sin, but she may not be helping him, either," Driscoll wrote.

Surely if the writer had a clue he would not have allowed in print Chapman's claim that Driscoll partly blamed Haggard's wife when the following sentence proves just the opposite. Not helping him does not equal "partly to blame".

[fkabuckeyesrule]

I don't have a problem with any of those quotes.