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Today’s Buzz: Willow’s Reveal, Mars Hill Tackles Sex, Rape, & Birth Control, & Watchdogs
Some good stuff to share today... more on Willow's Reveal study; Mars Hill and Mark Driscoll tackle Sex, Rape, Birth Control and more; Weeks and Bynum meet again; and Slice's newest complaint against Rick Warren: Rick's now selling a 1999 book that calls certain people 'leaders from hell'...
Top Ten Posts of Willow Creek’s Reveal Study
MMI made the top ten list of blog posts on Reveal… Here are the other nine... Very “reveal"ing.
Mars Hill Tackles Sex, Rape, Birth Control
“Do you believe that abortion as a result of rape is wrong?” one worship service attendant at Mars Hill Church in Seattle posed to the pastor. It’s one of many controversial and long-debated questions being asked at the growing church that draws a large twenty-something crowd every week. Pastor Mark Driscoll has opened up the pulpit to a daring “Ask Anything” session, giving unscripted answers to questions not typically addressed in the church. And the content being addressed over the course of nine weeks has been divided into two categories: offensive and really offensive. Questions are being asked only during the Sunday evening service - the last of five services at Mars Hill when no children and virtually no families are present and attendance is mainly made up of singles, young adults and non-Christians. Part of an experiment launched on Jan. 6, “Ask Anything” allows worship attendants to text message any questions they have for the pastor - during the course of the live preaching - on the subjects of the sermon. Those questions are then answered on the spot following Driscoll’s preaching. There’s no forewarning or preparation. If the experiment “serves us well,” the question and answer session may be expanded to all services. Regarding the question of whether abortion as a result of rape is wrong, Driscoll answered, “Yes.” Read more here...
Bishop Weeks and Juanita Bynum Meet Again… in Court
Televangelist Juanita Bynum must meet next month with her estranged husband - who is accused of attacking her in a hotel parking lot - to resolve their pending divorce, according to his divorce attorney. Randy Kessler said Weeks and his client, Bishop Thomas Weeks III, will sit down on Feb. 18 for mediation, a shorter and less public alternative to a trial. The couple has been estranged since June and has not seen each other in months, since Weeks is barred from contacting Bynum under the terms of his release on bond. More here...
New Watchdog Vendetta: Rick Warren Recommend Book Calling PD Opponents “Leaders from Hell”
Give me a break… According to SliceofLaodicea.com, “Transitioning: Leading Your Church through Change, a book by Dan Southerland that is highly recommended by Rick Warren, calls those who oppose the Purpose Driven philosophy “leaders from hell.” Southerland is “the leading expert on implementing the Purpose Driven paradigm in existing churches” (Church Transitions web site), and Warren sells his book… Isn’t it interesting that about the only time that the Warren crowd talks about hell is when they mis-apply it to fundamentalists and evangelicals of a stricter stripe!” (Incidentally, if you’d like to order the book, you can do so here) (By the way, this book is old news… copyrighted in 1999, and is out of print. Matter of fact, you can only buy used copies at Amazon. So… this really shouldn’t be much of a news flash).
MMI Recommends Book Calling PD Opponents “Leaders from Hell”
This just in. MMI has just recommended a book recommended by Rick Warren that calls PD opponents “Leaders from Hell”.
That’s it for today! Make it a great one!
Todd
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I'm Todd Rhoades... the MMI guy. I'm also on the team at Leadership Network (although that doesn't mean that they endorse everything I write here). In my past life, I was the founder and developer of a website named ChurchStaffing.com.
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Posted by Jason Curlee
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 1:07 PM
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Posted by Peter Hamm
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 7:31 AM
Post Your Comments:That last one was too funny Todd…
That Driscoll sermon was really really good. I really enjoyed the section where he took men to task for being inconsiderate of their wives and making them have more children than they can bear..
Basically he was taking the very man to task that many (ignorant in my opinion) people assume that he is.
The Q&A was really good as well. It allowed Driscoll show his Pastor side, not just his preacher side.
Here’s a quote from slice on that very subject [To liken Bible-believing Christians who love the Lord Jesus Christ and who stand for His Word in this apostate age to Sanballat is a vicious slander...]
Perhaps if Ingrid really believed that she would tone down some of her slanderous rhetoric?
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