Reaching Out Without Selling Out: An Interview with Mark Driscoll

I've got a friend who pastors a local congregation and is on the verge of beginning a new, contemporary style service. I recommended that he and the team check out this interview on the White Horse Inn radio/web talk program. Featured is pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle and spearhead of Acts 29 church planting network.
"Reaching Out Without Selling Out: An Interview with Mark Driscoll"
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Here's a nugget:

"The people have been marketed, they have been pitched, they have been sold, they have had their felt needs assuaged. What they haven’t had is anyone get up and open the Bible, tell them who God is, what he has done and call them to repentance in a very clear, forthright way that respects their intelligence."

This ethos is reflected in his desire to be both Biblically faithful in content and culturally "there" in the outworking of the Christian life, emphasizing both the "exaltation" of Jesus as well as His "incarnation".
Give it a listen...comments welcome...

Joel Osteen Examined...

The Apostle Paul had his turn under the microscope ( Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. Acts 17.11)...now it's Joel's turn...

His books are on the NY Times Bestseller list...selling like hotcakes...
Theirs (Lakewood Church) is the largest in the ole U.S. of A...
Who is this guy and is everything legit?

Check out this 60 minutes edition and today's discussion on
The White Horse Inn as they examine:
Joel Osteen: A Case Study in American Religion

Previously I highlighted a word from "Yesterday and Today"

This is from today:

"This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do. Today I will be taught the Word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever-living seed of the Word of God. I will never be the same. Never, never, never. I will never be the same. In Jesus’ name. Amen.” (From Joel Osteen & Lakewood Church)

and from yesterday:

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth,and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord:Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit,born of the Virgin Mary,suffered under Pontius Pilate,was crucified, died, and was buried.He descended into hell.The third day He arose again from the dead.He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty,whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy *catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.Amen.(Apostles Creed)

*The word "catholic" refers not to the Roman Catholic Church, but to the universal church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

What has happened? Why?

Search this out for yourself...

God's Goodness to another Danny O (my nephew)