Mark Driscoll and Hillary Clinton
There’s one thing I know about Hillary Clinton: Virtually everyone has a settled opinion of her, and the opinions are rarely ambivalent - everyone takes a side when the question is Hillary. (Actually, there are two things I know about Hillary, and the second is that I will not be casting a vote for her in 2008 should she receive the nomination for President of the United States.)
I won’t suggest that Mark Driscoll has many things in common with Hillary, but I do think they share this one. (In reality, they share both of the above distinctions. I highly doubt that I’ll be voting for Driscoll for President this year, either, but for entirely different reasons.) Two recent posts on Tim Challies’ blog dealt with Driscoll and his latest book, Vintage Jesus: Timeless Answers to Timely Questions. The book review came first, and was followed a day later by another containing both explanation for why the comments on the book review were shut down and a deeper look into Challies’ own take on Driscoll. The book review would perhaps be best described as somewhere between a highly-qualified endorsement and a sometimes glowing advisory to avoid the book. The follow-up post posed and answered a number of questions about Driscoll the man and his use (or misuse) of his position.
Personally, I tend to agree very much with what D.A. Carson said about Driscoll while here in Nashville, which is where Challies rubbed shoulders with him. I am very much encouraged by what I see, from a great distance, of the growth and maturing of Mark Driscoll. Carson called this his “trajectory,” and that is a fittingly Carsonian word choice.
What about you? Where do you come down on Driscoll? Is he a master of keeping the world’s most relevant news relevant to the culture of his day, or is he a master at being repugnant?
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