Mark Driscoll - Be Warned!

I have just been alerted to the 'ministry' of Mark Driscoll, and I wish to pass on an urgent warning to avoid this man like the plague. There is something that just does not ring true about these 'visions' he see, this television screen that he claims is in front of him. That makes me very concerned.

On top of all that, his use of highly sexualised language and illustrations are deeply concerning. While this issue must be addressed sensitively and biblically by Christians pastors and preachers, his is more an exercise in voyeurism - and that's not nice. His addresses seem to be conditioning particularly young Christians for sexual exploitation, exploration and experimentation that may not be good.

What is most concerning of all is that the Christian churches, particularly in Northern Ireland, encourage their male members to attend Mandate when this man was speaking recently, and if that is the best these evangelical churches can do for their men-folk, then dear help us all, and may God have mercy on us.

One is left wondering what the outcome of listening to this man has been for the thousands of Christian men who attended his speaking! What has now been going on 'in the secret places' as a direct result?

It is easy to see how this kind of thing, this highly sexualised approach, is attractive to men, and how they would have been fantasising as they listened and absorbed his teaching. Is this truly edifying? Hardly. And is this not yet another evidence of the encroachment of the world into evangelicalism! The kind of 'hard rock' music that is widely accepted in many evangelical churches is linked with all kinds of sexual promiscuity, and now that Mark Driscoll has been so widely accepted by the evangelical churches and community, one is not surprised.

Is there an antidote to this kind of thing? yes. But the evangelical churches do not want it. They prefer to engage in the maximum of worldliness and try to pass it over as 'contemporary worship,' when it is nothing but unadulterated worldliness.

But what of the antidote? It is to get back to a traditional and reformed understanding of the Chroisyianlife and Christian worship. This was best exponded by the reformers, and by that I mean the true disciples of Joh Calvin, not the later generation of 'Calvinists' who distorted his teaching; we need urgently to return to biblical basics. The ecclesiastical juggernaut is travelling downhill as fast as its wheels can take it, and no one can see the crash that is coming. Someone must pull on the brakes NOW! How can God bless such wilful rebellion? How can He be pleased with what is going on and being done 'in His Name'?

Get back to the Bible before it is too late. Return to the living and true God, and leave aside your invented idols that masquerade as the gods of contemporary evangelicalism. Please do not give your allegiance to those evangelicals that are leading this departure from God. The Driscoll syndrome is just another manifestation of the departure from the living God by the churches, and further evidence that she has now started following, and continues to follow, foreign gods. They offer 'strange fire' to God as worship, but we all know what happened in the OT when this was done! Oh, the urgency of it! How fearful it is to fall into the hands of the living God, for He is "a consuming fire." TURN. TURN. TURN. TURN before it is too late. REPENT of your sins. REPENT. REPENT. REPENT.