The 'piling on' of Mark Driscoll!

I'm not sure you know what "secular" means.  And they certainly have the "authority" to determine their own membership, don't they?
Sure they do


Apparently, a great number in fact do.

I disagree. Most Christians know better.

What "heresies" are Acts29 guilty of? Please, enlighten us.
This is a secular organization. They have no business panting churches.
At least not if scripture is your final authority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularity
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Biker said:
This is a secular organization. They have no business panting churches.
At least not if scripture is your final authority.
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I asked about their heresies, not their affiliation.  If you can't name any, just be honest and say so.
 
Ransom said:
Tarheel Baptist said:
Perhaps not, but that is the issue that is brought up over and over.
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And before that, it was his spending $200,000 to manipulate the bestseller lists.
And before that, it was plagiarism.
And before that, it was allegations of abuse of power.
And before that, it was pornographic "prophetic" visions.
And before that, it was his crass language in the pulpit.

There is NO current or new controversy, not one.
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Exactly. There is no current controversy. There is a long series of controversies. My reading of Acts 29 is that they have reached the end of their patience.
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You illustrate my point.
If only Driscoll had stopped his idiocy sooner, we could still co-operate?
Please.
It's not about principle, but politics!

The question isn't why did they do this, but why not do this year's ago?
 
Tarheel Baptist said:
Ransom said:
Tarheel Baptist said:
Perhaps not, but that is the issue that is brought up over and over.
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And before that, it was his spending $200,000 to manipulate the bestseller lists.
And before that, it was plagiarism.
And before that, it was allegations of abuse of power.
And before that, it was pornographic "prophetic" visions.
And before that, it was his crass language in the pulpit.

There is NO current or new controversy, not one.
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Exactly. There is no current controversy. There is a long series of controversies. My reading of Acts 29 is that they have reached the end of their patience.
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You illustrate my point.
If only Driscoll had stopped his idiocy sooner, we could still co-operate?
Please.
It's not about principle, but politics!

The question isn't why did they do this, but why not do this year's ago?
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Because they didn't really care. After all, Driscoll has been running around talking about his "porno-visions" that "God" gives him, his cursing, his obsession with sex, etc. None of that was enough to disassociate with him, it's the noise that people have been making recently.
 
Tarheel Baptist said:
You illustrate my point.
If only Driscoll had stopped his idiocy sooner, we could still co-operate?
Please.
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When an idiot stops his idiocy, we call it "growing up," "maturing," or "repentance." It's why we offer paying jobs to men, and not boys.

By adding idiocy after idiocy to the pile, Driscoll just shows that he's still a boy. (The fact that he was recently dropped from the roster of the "Act Like Men" conference suggests the same, no?)
 
Ransom said:
Tarheel Baptist said:
You illustrate my point.
If only Driscoll had stopped his idiocy sooner, we could still co-operate?
Please.
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When an idiot stops his idiocy, we call it "growing up," "maturing," or "repentance." It's why we offer paying jobs to men, and not boys.

By adding idiocy after idiocy to the pile, Driscoll just shows that he's still a boy. (The fact that he was recently dropped from the roster of the "Act Like Men" conference suggests the same, no?)
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Yet again, I point out that this move...these seemingly choreographed moves against Driscoll come now....not when any single offense took place. The action reflects something that has happened behind the scenes IMO.
The timing is based on political climate, not moral outrage....unless it just took a few years for the overwhelming outrage to surface!
 
It definitely took too long for Acts 29 to take this action, but it was appropriate. That man has no business being in a pupit.
 
Tarheel Baptist said:
Yet again, I point out that this move...these seemingly choreographed moves against Driscoll come now....not when any single offense took place. The action reflects something that has happened behind the scenes IMO.
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So, put perhaps in a more charitable and accurate manner, they didn't turf Mars Hill as a knee-jerk reaction to some specific scandal, but after a period of investigation and deliberation?
 
Ransom said:
Tarheel Baptist said:
Yet again, I point out that this move...these seemingly choreographed moves against Driscoll come now....not when any single offense took place. The action reflects something that has happened behind the scenes IMO.
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So, put perhaps in a more charitable and accurate manner, they didn't turf Mars Hill as a knee-jerk reaction to some specific scandal, but after a period of investigation and deliberation?
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I'm just calling a spade a spade.
And I don't think Mars Hill considered it charitable.

I'd point out that Driscoll was in essence Acts 29 for a long while and turned it over to Chandler after one of his many apology periods.
 
AmazedbyGrace said:
It definitely took too long for Acts 29 to take this action, but it was appropriate. That man has no business being in a pupit.
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Acts 29 has nothing to do with his pulpit ministry, which I assume continues at Mars Hill.
 
Controversial Seattle megachurch founder Mark Driscoll will step down for at least six weeks while church leaders review formal charges lodged by a group of pastors that he abused his power.
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So has Stuff Fundies Like taken Mr. Driscoll to task yet?
 
Ransom said:
Controversial Seattle megachurch founder Mark Driscoll will step down for at least six weeks while church leaders review formal charges lodged by a group of pastors that he abused his power.
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It seems that after years and years of idiocy, there is now sufficient political cover to deal with Driscoll. Better late than never, I guess....and in this case pragmatism trumped principle.
 
Ransom said:
Controversial Seattle megachurch founder Mark Driscoll will step down for at least six weeks while church leaders review formal charges lodged by a group of pastors that he abused his power.
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He stepped down? They pussified him!?!?!?




















8)
 
subllibrm said:
So has Stuff Fundies Like taken Mr. Driscoll to task yet?
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You have to find that in the forum section, he is not considered a Fundie so he wouldn't be headline news, but you will see at the forum section, he is not well liked.
 
Recovering IFB said:
subllibrm said:
So has Stuff Fundies Like taken Mr. Driscoll to task yet?
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You have to find that in the forum section, he is not considered a Fundie so he wouldn't be headline news, but you will see at the forum section, he is not well liked.
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When he is complimentarian to the core when it comes to the wimmin folk, I should think not. They do all the thinking for the men over there.  ;)
 
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