I do not have the higheset of appreciations for Driscoll. That’s not a polite way to say that I don’t like him. Just unsure about him.
That said, this is an interesting article (although lengthy) that gave me both a better appreciation and validation of my mixed feelings.
Even so, I’m glad he’s part of the Kingdom.
Pastor Provocateur by Collin Hansen
Mark Driscoll looks no different than he does any other day. He’s wearing the hip pastor uniform—blue jeans and an untucked shirt with the top two buttons undone. Yet he speaks in a subdued tone that hints at wear and tear.
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He begins his talk about lessons learned as a church planter with common-sense advice about how pastors can blow off steam. Driscoll, 36, plays T-ball with his three sons or feeds ducks with his two daughters. Hardly the stuff that provokes raging blog debates and church pickets. As Driscoll’s Mars Hill Church in Seattle has grown to 6,000 members in 11 years, quiet moments like this with his family have preserved some of his sanity.
“I’m playing hurt right now,” Driscoll confesses to prospective church planters at a March meeting of Acts 29, his network of 170 churches around the world. “I wore out my adrenal glands at the end of last year, just living off adrenaline too much. My sleep has been really jacked up for some months.”
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Yeah, I read that article and came away with similar thoughts. I like people that I can’t quite pin down, though I might not want them on my squad. :)
Yeah, I read that article and came away with similar thoughts. I like people that I can’t quite pin down, though I might not want them on my squad. :)