Rachel Held Evans | Mark Driscoll is a bully. Stand up to him..
Rachael Held Evans is one of those few bloggers who I check in with weekly. Her writing and insights, in my mind, stand out in a heavily populated blogosphere.
This post regarding Mark Driscoll is right on target and well worth sharing. I think she sums up his evangelical “bad boy” behavior when she writes, “In evangelical circles, he’s like the kid from high school who makes crude jokes at every opportunity, uses the words “gay†and “queer†to describe the things he most detests, encourages his friends to subject the unpopular kids to ridicule, and belittles the guys who aren’t “macho†or “manly†enough to be in his club.”
His personal attacks on other pastors and people in the name of biblical fidelity put him in the same company of boomer preachers like John Piper and John MacArthur who do the same but dress it in more polite language. Be it Rob Bell or John Armstrong or others who don’t tow the evangelical line in his narrow understanding of doctrine. It seems that there is a stream of conservative evangelicalism that won’t police its bullies, preferring to call their actions as “prophetic” or “speaking the truth”, when in fact its neither.
The comment thread to Rachael’s blog post is over 500, Mars Hill has been flooded with calls and emails, and Pr. Driscoll has pulled the comment off his facebook page. But the conversation has gone viral and looks like it will go on for a while.