His statements speak for themselves. . .
I have listened to a few minutes of his sermons before I was throughly angry at him and decided to stop watching.
I don't play video games because I want to leave a legacy, be on a team, go to a war, defeat and enemy, or save a non existent princesses. (Women arn't princesses just because they are women, in fact unless you are a real princess, you really shouldn't call yourself that because I find it rather insulting.)
I play video games because its something for me that I enjoy. Its a non serious way to excersise my mind, and its far more entertaining then doing something like doing math problems for the fun of it. Just like Mark Driscoll apparently enjoys ulimate fighting. The only difference is in my hobby. . . no one gets hurt. In his someone always gets hurt.
I don't cheer for violence, I don't like to see people get beat up. . . Mark apparently does.
No the bible is about God's relationship for humanity and his ultimate saving act redeeming them to himself. Not fighting, not rescuing a princess, not defeating an enemy, not going to war. The only real enemy that is defeated is sin, death, and Satan and all 3 of those are defeated by Christ alone, not us.
The wars that are in the bible arn't the main point of it at all.
No no Mark Driscoll said video games are stupid period. . . He doesn't say "don't get addicted". . . because you know that could be said about a lot of things. . . gambling, alcohol, sex, just about anything you could get addicted to and its clearly bad.
No Mark ment what he said, the fact that its inconvient for you has no point in the matter.
Instead of trying to make up what you would like to think Mark ment, why don't you address the comments as he stated them.
What are his main points? Too many effeminate preachers out there? Not enough guys want to get into a mixed martial arts steel cage match? His main point is that the only real men in this world are Mark Driscoll and people who act and think like Mark Driscoll. Maybe thats why there is a shortage of "real men".
Or Christian enough. Apologizing and attempting to change is a Christian practice. . . not a man practice.
He does promite violence. . . he promotes Mixed Martial Arts, which is a very violent "sport" of almost no holds bar fighting in which the objective is to injure your opponent until he quits due to injury sustained or is knocked out. That is very violent. And Driscoll has admitted he's a big fan.
People who often speak without thinking should not be pastors.
Yet another instance of "lets not worry about what he says. . . if he gets itching ears who like what he says then he's good.
Just because someone can call himself Christian and attract a lot of itching ears, doesn't mean it's God driven.
Pat Robertson had a lot of itching ears listening to him and he's a false prophet.
Actually I don't think thats the problem at all...
I think the problem is that most men do not have the ability by themselves to make enough of an income to give all these "wonderful Christian women" everything that they want. And maybe its also because these Christian women really arn't as wonderful as they are painted to be. They are caught up in commercialism and want to be treated "like a princess".
Word is they arn't actually really princesses though, but just ordinary women who think they are princesses. I'm waiting for Driscoll to inform them of this.
**For the record it took me some time but I did find a Christian wife who does not have delusions of granduer in thinking she's a princess or deserves to be treated like one.**
And their behavior, much like the nominally Christian women who sleep around is counter to the Christian faith. Since when is this a new thing? People seem to think that behavior outside of the Christian faith is some new thing. . . its as old as the hills.
And since when do men who are addicted to video games sleep with any real woman anyways? Seriously, if video game addiction is such a big problem, that tends to prevent men from sleeping with any woman. . . not just getting a wife.
So essentially you paint a picture of a man who a phenom of nature. He doesn't do anything but live in his parent's basement and play video games but somehow manages to get out and gets random women to sleep with him. That is truely impressive.
For the record secular women arn't terribly impressed by video game addictions either.
How do you know they have no responsibilty? Our economy is rough, especially on single people. Both my wife and I lived at home til we where 27 (and we married). Its not because we had no responsibility. . . its not because we didn't have jobs. . . Its because we didn't get paid enough to live on our own. . . And personally I'd take my parents over a roommate any day. I had enough of the roommate thing in college. . . it wasn't horrible, but life is a lot more stable at home.
And what to you is grown up?
See here is the problem. . . Driscoll tells people they are boys because they live at home. But the reason they live at home is because they don't make enough money. Then he tells them to grow up and support a Christian wife. . . who is suppose to stay at home all of the time. Well if they can't live on their own, how can they support a wife by themselves?
Especially a wife who wants things. Lots of things.
And besides perhaps these men are taking their time about marriage because these Christian women are statistically speaking just as likely to divorce them and take half of their things on top of child support and alimony as secular women. (75% of divorce filings come from women.)
Yes its what they should do. . . however how many times does someone have to shoot their mouth off without thinking? If it was one or 2 times it wouldn't be a big deal. But every day Mark is out shooting his mouth off about people manning up.
On top of that since when is people "manning up" the domain of a Christian preacher? See as I remember it a Christian preacher is suppose to preach law and gospel and administer the sacraments. Not wine about things like video games when they arn't sinful.
You see its not the domain of a Christian preacher to decide what hobbies are stupid, and what hobbies are good. It's only their job to teach what is sinful and what is not. See in real churchs you are allowed to have different hobbies from the preacher.
Oh and has Driscoll apologized and welcomed back into membership those people that he kicked out for disagreeing with him about the direction he was taking the church??
For the record that single incident alone is a good enough reason to not listen to Driscoll. Because real pastors deal with dissent, I know I've talked with them. Mark Driscoll throws it out.
. And my keyboard needs to now be cleaned...
