» News: Salon.com Covers Acts 29 Pastor Mark Driscoll
Salon.com published a feature article profiling Mark Driscoll and the Mars Hill Church. The article takes a political or sociological approach to Mars Hill, allowing the church to epitomize what the author calls the "Discple Generation" - "Within this movement lies something as old as America itself, and as terrifying and alluring as anything Orwell predicted; something that is at once political, emotional, deeply anti-intellectual, and more galvanized than you can imagine. I call this population of fierce young evangelicals the Disciple Generation."
The author, Lauren Sandler, focuses on Driscoll's emphasis of fruitfulness in marriage and his emphasis on "traditional" gender roles. Sandler represents Driscoll's soteriology as though Driscoll preaches legalism: "When Driscoll invokes his Lord, he describes an uncompromising disciplinarian who demands utter obedience from his followers in exchange for rescue from an eternity in hell."
Salon.com notes that the article is adapted from Sandler's book Righteous: Dispatches From the Evangelical Youth Movement.
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Interesting. Nancy Wilson also strikes again:
"The pastor's wife gave Abolafya a book to study called "The Fruit of Her Hands," which can essentially be summed up in Ephesians 5:22: "Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord." When Abolafya stretched out on her couch one evening to read the first chapter of the book, she screamed and threw it across the room. But she prayed to God and was led back to the Bible, to understand Wilson's perspective. In the Bible, Abolafya found story after story about women being willfully deceived, following their own desires, wreaking travesty in their relationships and homes. In these stories she saw signs of her own past, her mother's behavior, her friends' actions. She began to submit to Ari about purchases and plans she wanted to make."
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