Baptist Pastor's "bed-in" encourages "more sex."

[AbideWithMe]

If you find this guy irresponsible, then Mark Driscoll will just make your blood boil. His “teaching” on Song of Solomon is perverse to say the least!

Mark Driscoll, author of Confessions of a Reformission Rev (2006), explains his technique for achieving church growth: ‘I assumed the students and singles were all pretty horny, so I went out on a limb and preached through the Song of Songs in the fall… 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.’ [pp 94, 96].

Driscoll has frequently said that his favourite book of the Bible is Song of Solomon, and this gives him an opportunity to talk about sex in the most sensuous and irreverent way. His latest book, Real Marriage (2012), deals with self-stimulation, the use of sex toys and forms of cybersex. The most provocative of all involves sodomy within marriage. [Challies blog]

Below is a link to the site about him.

He is highly esteemed in Evangelical circles

Mark Driscoll founded The Resurgence, a theological cooperative that works with the Acts 29 Network of churches. He also works closely with the Desiring God Ministry of John Piper, and The Gospel Coalition, that includes Tim Keller and Don Carson. Indeed, Driscoll is so well regarded in evangelical circles that he is council member of The Gospel Coalition. He is regularly invited to talk at Christian Conferences in the USA and across other parts of the world.

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The only thing that can be said by everyone about Mark Driscoll is that he’s very controversial. Rather than say he’s highly esteemed in Evangelical circles, I think it’s more accurate to say he’s gotten alot of attention, much of it negative.

Personally, I think he’s got a cult of personality thing going. He’s pretty disturbing, bordering on cultish, IMO. That being said, he’s a complicated person, and to say more about him would be beyond the topic of this thread.

Driscoll’s early spiritual formation was Irish Roman Catholic…so if anyone here still considers him to fall under the “once a Catholic, always Catholic” idea, please do reach out to him. And pray for him.

 

[AbideWithMe]

From the article:

On the roof of the church?!?


Nazis and fundamentalists, they don’t need parodied, they’re self-parody.

They’re not doing anything on the roof of the church except getting attention for themselves. You can watch the video in the link.

 

[onemangang]

The only thing that can be said by everyone about Mark Driscoll is that he’s very controversial. Rather than say he’s highly esteemed in Evangelical circles, I think it’s more accurate to say he’s gotten alot of attention, much of it negative…

I could have narrow the comment down of “The Evangelical Crowd” to "The Reformed Evangelical Crowd " in which he is highly regarded and sought after to speak, on TV, Evangelical/ Reformed conferences, and has received praise by John Piper, John MacArthur, R.C Sproul and other big name Reformed Evangelicals. He was also on a TV debate in a panel of people that included big names like Depak Chopra. So controvertial, yes! Does he get the right hand of fellowship with many leading American Reformed Evagelicals, Yes.

The only man I’ve heard speak out against some of Mark’s teaching was John MacArhtur, on the very topic this thread was started about!

Others, often shout his praise for “Holding to Reformed Doctrine!”

 

[JustaServant]

One question nobody has asked.
Why is this “pastor” concerned with how often or how much his flock has sex?