As exits from the ministry go, they do not come much bigger than that of Mark Driscoll. Lauded among the ‘New Calvinist’ fraternity as the man who can reach parts of society others can’t, his resignation in October last year from the Mars Hill Church in Seattle made the Huffington Post and Fox News. Mark Driscoll was that big. His demise then was quickly followed by the dissolution of Mars Hill Church which formally ceased to exist on December 31st last year.
Here Pastor Chris Hand seeks to bring contemporary evidence as to the impact that Mark Driscoll has had on the wider church, mainly in the USA, but also considers many of his views and practices as unbiblical and distinctly unhelpful. He also raises questions concerning the support Driscoll received from other various 'New Calvinist' pastors, as well as reflecting on the poor pastoral treatment that he excercised against some of his own people at Mars Hill, in Seattle.
Election fever is beginning to break out in America. With a presidential election just under a year away, political hopefuls, especially of Republican stripe, are jockeying to get the party’s nomination. Nothing unusual in that. What is...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
