Mark Driscoll’s sermons are mostly too racy to post on GodTube, the evangelical Christian “family friendly” video-posting Web site. With titles like “Biblical Oral Sex” and “Pleasuring Your Spouse,” his clips do not stand a chance against the site’s content filters. No matter: YouTube is where Driscoll, the pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, would rather be. Unsuspecting sinners who type in popular keywords may suddenly find themselves face to face with a husky-voiced preacher in a black skateboarder’s jacket and skull T-shirt. An “Under 17 Requires Adult Permission” warning flashes before the video cuts to evening services at Mars Hill, where an anonymous audience member has just text-messaged a question to the screen onstage: “Pastor Mark, is masturbation a valid form of birth control?”
Driscoll doesn’t miss a beat: “I had one guy quote Ecclesiastes 9:10, which says, ‘Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.’ ” [Read on...]
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While being relevant to society is one thing, pastors should indeed be able to address the most common of questions people have that have in the past been un-asked. However, isn’t there a fine line between addressing those issues and non-verbal communication to unbelievers who may be watching?
I just don’t see – call me a blind fool – how this response to the question posed in the post would be given by Jesus himself if he was asked point blank. The church, in my opinion, should be careful of becoming too much like the world.
While I don’t discount by any means Mark Driscoll, however our views may vary, the approach he takes is concerning to me.
On a side note, I hope Baltimore loses by 50 tonight.
Jesus never got laid, rested his head on the breast of another man and never would have taken the mixed martial artist’s advice seriously. i wonder whether the nazarean was nasty enough for Mark.