#mark driscoll

[wutbju]

Also last semester, BJU's new shiny spokesman Renton Rathbun chose the clickbaitiest headline. It's peak BOJOsploitation.

He called it "Hate More. Kill Better."

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know he's talking about the mortification of sin. But it takes a long time for him to get to that point. And he flippantly states that "the Church is losing the skill of hating and killing."

This is the guy who started his sermon about gender binaries talking about sexual assault. And this is the guy who talked the students' neighbors as Sonderkommandos. And this is the guy who said that he's "punching them in the face." And the guy who said that men "pressure women into degrading themselves."

And he's saying it in the same pulpit that Dan Olinger "joked" about "killing" a student.

BJU loves to glorify violence. They love to exploit people from the pulpit. They love BOJOsploitation.

And fundy pastors love it too.

They are all as bad as the Reefer Madness producers.

Mark and avoid.

Here's Rathbun's whole thing. Note that he's equating pastors with holiness, and if you disagree with that, you need to learn more about "killing."

We live in a world where 62% of American pastors have a syncretistic worldview. It was pastors who enabled the success of the Revoice movement, which is responsible for grooming young men and women into embracing a gay identity within Christianity. And currently, there is a dwindling confidence in pastors’ spiritual credibility.

Now more than ever, the American church is in desperate need of pastors who are ready to address a simple fact: the Church has come to despise holiness. Yes, the Church at large seems fond of God’s love and goodness, but holiness leaves a bitter taste in her mouth.

Many fear pursuing holiness will make us unrelatable, robotic, and judgy. Yet, the most sobering statement of 1 John 2:1–6 is that the first and primary exhortation is to stop sinning. Yes, if we do sin, we have an Advocate. But John wrote his epistle principally so that his people “may not sin.”

When we do speak of practical matters of holiness, we often explain our way into retaining at least some sin. When 1 Timothy 2:12 forbids women “to exercise authority over a man” in the church, we roll out our feminists to help us see that “authority” is misunderstood by conservatives. When Romans 1:26–27 speaks of the sin of homosexuality and its “vile affections,” we roll out our same-sex-attracted pastors to help us see that only the act of sodomy is a sin, not the attraction part.

The Church is losing the skill of hating and killing. We do not hate sin as God does, so we do not kill it. We might condemn parts of it—but hating and killing it goes too far. Yet, God says He hates the work of those who sin (Ps. 101:3; 119:104). He hates abominations (Prov. 6:16–19; Jer. 44:4). He hates the planning of evil (Zach. 8:17). And God has instructed us to hate evil (Ps. 97:10), even abhor it (Rom. 12:9).

Our worldview is confused, so our compassion has become confused. In attempting to show compassion for those who are tangled up in sin, we have begun showing compassion for sin itself. As my pastor once stated, “When we forget the sinfulness of sin and God’s own hatred for it, we forget the cost of sin for the Son of God.”

How can we kill what we have become accustomed to? How can we assassinate that which we have been pining after? We need a biblical worldview of holiness. The puritan John Owen confronts us, “Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it while you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you!”

Pastors, do not give up. Do not give in. Do not go gently into the night. Fight for holiness in your own heart (1 Pet. 3:15) and in the hearts of your congregations (1 Pet. 1:15–16). Fight because you love God. Fight because you love your people. Turn your people into killers of sin, or it will be killing them.

Look around, Renton. There's a lot of hating. There's a lot of killing. And exploitative to say so cavalierly, "The Church is losing the skill of hating and killing."

#Bob Jones University #BOJsploitation #Reefer Madness #Exploitation Genre #Christploitation #Fundyploitation #John R. Rice #Renton Rathbun #BJUChapel #Mark Driscoll #Dan Olinger

[fundieshaderoom]

Mark Driscoll calls out pastor John Lindell for allowing a male stripper to do a demonstration

Find video here on fundie snark

#driscoll family #Mark Driscoll #John Lindell

[protestantposting]

Two excellent podcasts on the modern western church. The first is a Christian perspective and the second is a former Christian perspective but both don't shy away from the trenches nor negate the good in the midst of problematic and weird church movements.

1. The rise and fall of Mars Hill

The 1st on evangelicalism, mega churches, and when a church is a cult of personality. Specifically focusing on Mars Hill and the pastor/demagogue Mark Driscoll. If you were evangelical in the 90s Mars Hill was cool and successful until... it wasn't.

2. Heaven bent

The second actually does a different deep dive each season specifically into charismatic churches and movements. Each season actually focuses on a different church/movement. The second season is particularly fascinating because it happened mid pandemic/2020 election and focuses on Bethel which had some interesting interactions with the election cycle and COVID. But the other seasons are no slouches either. They also have great audio of the weirder sounds in charismatic churches in an educational and not belittling way.

#evangelicalism #charismatic #western church #protestantism #podcasts #heaven bent #the rise and fall of mars hill #investigative journalism #the shit that really goes down in church #mark driscoll #bethel #the Toronto blessing #a literal murder mystery #good stuff #post 3

[mdixonjm]

Pastor Kicked Off State for Speaking Against A Male Stripper

Let’s talk about Pastor Mark Driscoll being kicked off the stage at the Stronger Men’s Conference hosted by James River Church, Springfield Missouri. I have tried to ignore it but the incident holds many valuable lessons that we may learn. Just to get you up to speed here’s what happened. The Conference is an annual conference held by the church every year. Thousands of men from hundreds of…

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#Ashtorath #Astaroth #Astarte #banner #james river church #Jezebel #john lindell #mark driscoll #stronger men conference

[katieleighrobinson]

#exvangelical #mark driscoll #joe rogan #manosphere #they're both absolutely disgusting

[martyschoenleber]

"I Don't Trust Big Things"

I was having a conversation with two “deconstructed Christians.” Almost everything they had formerly confessed to believe on the great issues of human history (life, death, the afterlife, God, Christ, Christianity, purpose, meaning) they look on as unscientific or unhistorical, and therefore disrespect and disdain it now. On the flip side, almost everything that they disbelieved before, they now…

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#Accountability #Acts29 #ARC #Bill Hybels #GIlbert Bilizikian #Hebrews 6:10-20 #IHOP #James MacDonald #Mark Driscoll #North Park Seminary #Ravi Zacharias #Scandal #Shame

[airchexx]

Mark Driscoll FIRST DAY on Q102 WIOQ Philadelphia | January 1989

 WIOQ Q102 Philadelphia – Mark Driscoll – FIRST DAY – January 1989 This aircheck features the late great Mark Driscoll. He started his career as a teenager in Texas, and spent many years on air at great stations like 98.7 WOR-FM, 95.5 WPLJ, 102.7 KIIS FM,  WXKS-FM Kiss 108, Q102 WIOQ, 95 WBBF, and was the station voice of many radio stations around North America. On this aircheck, you’ll…

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#102.1 #Mark Driscoll #Philadelphia #Q102 #WIOQ

[spokanefavs]

"After the dramatic implosion of Seattle’s Mars Hill Church in 2014, its co-founder and pastor — Mark Driscoll, an unapologetically confrontational preacher who resigned when church leaders accused him of abusive leadership — decamped with his family to Arizona."

#seattle #religion #news #Mark Driscoll #Church News #pnw #spokane #Arizona

[theologyforthelayman]

The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill – Lessons Learned?

I’m nearing the end of listening to the podcast series on the Rise and Fall of Mars Hill. It has struck me to the core in more ways than one. I’ve recommended it on Facebook multiple times, but I feel like an echo chamber doing so. I can hear myself shout it from the mountain […]The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill – Lessons Learned?

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#mark driscoll #Mars Hill

[wutbju]

When I started thinking about this BOJsploitation genre, the first sermon that popped into my mind was John R. Rice's 1935 pamphlet, What's Wrong with the Dance?

Have you read it? Would you like to? It's 48 pages long, and if your church had a Sword of the Lord tract rack in the lobby, you might have seen it.

Here's how he introduces it:

CHILD OF THE BROTHEL, SISTER OF DRUNKENNESS, LEWDNESS, DIVORCE AND MURDER, THE MOTHER OF LUST--A ROAD TO HELL!

Huh?

#Bob Jones University #BOJsploitation #Reefer Madness #Exploitation Genre #Christploitation #Fundyploitation #John R. Rice #Renton Rathbun #BJUChapel #Mark Driscoll #Dan Olinger

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

delighted to report that i only added 130 words to this little scenelet in my fix-it endeavors!!

#text #personal #writing #in btw #driscoll #AND I'VE GOT FOUR BIG PARAGRAPHS MARKED IN PURPLE FOR WORDINESS PASS PURPOSES!!! #chances are pretty good i can peel a bunch of those words out lol #i just need some Distance

[sunkern-plus]

idk i like being a transgender nonbinary thing on a (the) spectrum, mark driscoll

#fundie fridays #i'm watching the mark driscoll episode transgender nonbinary thing on a spectrum describes me SOOOOO well #assigned demonkin at mark driscoll

[truthseeker-blogger]

#Pastor Mark Driscoll

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

what is pcsua and pca and gothard?

PCUSA = Presbyterian Church in the United States (roughly 9,000 congregations)

PCA = Presbyterian Church in America (roughly 2,000 congregations)

They used to be the same denomination (under PCUSA) until 1973 when the PCA split in protest against a theological liberalism which denied Christ's deity and denied the inerrancy of Scripture.

Since then, the PCUSA has held that: Homosexuality is not a sin and homosexual unions should be "blessed" by the church; Women and non-celibate homosexuals may be ordained; Abortion can be morally acceptable; No-fault divorce is permissible.

Whereas, the PCA has held to the opposite of all of that.

Another slight difference is that in the PCUSA, church property belongs to the denomination, while in the PCA, church property belongs to the individual congregation.

Bill Gothard is a guy who came out with a program in the 60s called Institute in Basic Life Principles, which was basically a hyper-legalistic guide for Christian parents to prevent their kids being sucked in by the sex, drugs, and rock n roll scene. (If you remember the Duggar family from TLC's 19 Kids And Counting, they followed the IBLP principles.) In 2014, he was sued on the basis of 34 women alleging sexual assault and molestation, but the lawsuit was dropped due to the statute of limitations being exceeded.

The PCUSA likes to treat the PCA as if we are no different from IBLP folk, simply because we are complementarian and do not affirm all their liberal and heretical doctrines.

#- HK #and they like to bring up Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill to back their claims even though Mars Hill was NOT part of the PCA #Christianity #x

[zackslater]

so sad MPG and Dashiell stopped doing Zack to the Future cause we’ll never get to hear them make fun of Slater for dancing with a tree in the background of the new girl episode in S4

#mark paul gosselaar #mpg #dashiell driscoll #Zack to the future #saved by the bell #sbtb #🔔

[airchexx]

Mark Driscoll on 66 WNBC New York | May 10 1978

 WNBC 66 New York – Mark Driscoll – May 10 1978 Courtesy: Mike McCann This aircheck features the late great Mark Driscoll. He spent many years on air at great stations like 98.7 WOR-FM, 95.5 WPLJ, 102.7 KIIS FM,  WXKS-FM Kiss 108, Q102 WIOQ, 95 WBBF, and was the station voice of many radio stations around North America. On this aircheck, you hear Mark during his days jocking…

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#66 #660 #Mark Driscoll #New York #wnbc