Archive for December 22nd, 2008

Final Thoughts From Mark Driscoll at 12:37am After the Lowest Sunday in Many Years

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Good post from Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church (Seattle) after a snowstorm led to significantly lower attendance at their church

After more than 12 years at Mars Hill I have found days like today are great learning opportunities and I want to share them with you before I log off and start to focus on the holidays:

  1. We learn who sees Mars Hill as a calling and who sees it as a job.
  2. We learn about our own heart.
  3. We learn about the deep love some people have for our church.

I pray that my desire to gather together and worship with my brothers and sisters in Christ would result in a similar desire to get to church regardless of the weather.

And don’t get me started on the unfortunate habit of churches canceling services when they conflict with Christmas. I mean duh, canceling the corporate worship of our God around the time when He sent His son so that we can open presents? Please.

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Jesus for President review

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Good review of Jesus for President by Shane Claiborne. Much of what the book talks about is hinted at in this interview with Claiborne, Chuck Colson (Watergate and Prison Fellowship) and Greg Boyd (open-theism and Christus Victor)

In Jesus for President Claiborne wants Christians to disavow their country and all civil governance in favor of exclusive allegiance to a nonviolent Jesus whose chief mission is resisting “empire.” But Claiborne’s interpretation of Jesus, his few selective quotations from early church fathers notwithstanding, is largely divorced from the universal church’s understanding of the Savior. Instead, Claiborne insists on a narrowly reinterpreted Jesus as distilled by Yoder and several others in 20th-century America for whom Jesus is more social critic than Resurrected Redeemer.

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