Posted on 10/16/2014 8:51:32 AM PDT by Cecily
Less than a year ago, Mark Driscoll, an evangelical pastor, was flying high.
His hometown Seattle Seahawks were in the Super Bowl, and the brash pastor scored a big, faith-fueled interview with five of the team's top players, including quarterback Russell Wilson.
But in a remarkably fast fall from grace, Driscoll resigned Tuesday as pastor of Mars Hill Church, a congregation he founded 18 years ago and turned into a force in the mostly secular Pacific Northwest.
In a statement, Mars Hills' board of overseers said Driscoll hadn't committed any acts of "immorality, illegality or heresy" -- sins that have felled many a powerful pastor.
Instead, the board said, Driscoll is guilty of "arrogance, responding to conflict with a quick temper and harsh speech, and leading the staff and elders in a domineering manner."
Driscoll was not asked to leave, the board added, saying they were "surprised" to receive his resignation letter.
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But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, malice, wrath, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.
Colossians 3:8
They should check the account balances...
Driscoll is nothing more than a self-promoter who knows that being outrageous and disgusting will bring him the money and attention he desires.
Driscoll is to theology what Miley Cyrus is to classical music.
I have similar experience. I was saved 37 years ago at a Bill Gothard seminar, even though later he was found to be straying significantly from the mark. And Peter denied Jesus and later sided with the Judaizers. We must beware, not merely of others, but also of ourselves!
Truer words. I belonged to one church for more than fifteen years, watched it grow from just a few families to a mega church, and drifted away when I absolutely could not get an appointment with the pastor. He didn't even know who I was, though he had baptized me and my children. Not an arrogant man--indeed, a very holy one--but just too busy running the equivalent of a large company.
Truer words. I belonged to one church for more than fifteen years, watched it grow from just a few families to a mega church, and drifted away when I absolutely could not get an appointment with the pastor. He didn't even know who I was, though he had baptized me and my children. Not an arrogant man--indeed, a very holy one--but just too busy running the equivalent of a large company.
Emerging Church
I wish I'd never heard what prompted your reasonable response.
..and you don't have to call me darlin', darliN'...
His sins are considered leadership qualities by some. Lots of Bishops are overflowing with these qualities. Had he not been confronted he undoubtedly would not have considered his “sins” a detriment to his ministry.
I was joking. That said, filthy language is unbecoming and most folks I know who cuss don’t use it. They rely on old favorites like d@mn and sumb!tch.
What the (bleep) are you talking about? :-)
I cannot let this go unchallenged. :).
Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song And he told me it was the perfect country & western song I wrote him back a letter and I told him it was Not the perfect country & western song because he hadn't said anything at all about mama, Or trains, Or trucks, Or prison, Or getting' drunk Well he sat down and wrote another verse to the song And he sent it to me, And after reading it, I realized that my friend had written the perfect Country & western song And I felt obliged to include it on this album The last verse goes like this here: Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison And I went to pick her up in the rain But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck She got run ned over by a damned old train [Chorus:] And I'll hang around as long as you will let me And I never minded standing' in the rain No, a' you don't have to call me darlin', darlin' You never even call me Well I wonder why you don't call me Why don't you ever call me by my name
Yep. And what really ticks me off about this guy is that the local non catholic churches in our area started these stupid classes on sex for their members based on some of this mans works, trying to get the married women to be more sexually active with their husbands.
As the Moslems have found, you can gather a large congregation of men if you tell them they have a right to act on every sexual urge.
It saddens me to see people so badly misled. And there's "a lot of that" going around.
So true. >:o\
St. Paul, on the other hand, had quite a different perspective on the matter.
I’m just teaching my RCIA’ers about Paul. What a good ‘un.
St. Paul’s letters are about a 50/50 split between religious joy and personal grumpiness, I think. Maybe someone will say that about me some day ... although I have wine and children to help dissipate the grumpiness. Maybe he had a bad digestion, like poor Richard Henry Lee.
I taught the Ten Commandments to the RCIC class this week. Our theme for the fall session is a camping trip (cribbed from the previous teacher), so we sat around a battery lantern and talked about the Israelites in the desert, and the rules people need if they’re going to reach their destination without killing each other.
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