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    I Think John Piper Has Been Hanging Around Mark Driscoll Too Much…

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    Really, though… John Piper has been taking much heat from the discernment blogging crowd as of late… and this will only heat things up. 

    Some think it is sexually charged language.  I think it is the language of a father that is saying… have some common sense, people; and that he can’t imagine any father allowing his daughter (or son) to participate.

    What think ye?!

    Todd


    I think John's been hanging around Mark Driscoll too much these days! FaithBlogging.com is reporting about John Piper's reaction to a girl that is making history as the first girl wrestler on the guy's high school wrestling team. John writes:

    "Get real, dads. You know exactly what almost every healthy boy is thinking. If a jock from Northern Minnesota encircles her around the breasts and twists his leg around her thighs, trust me, he will dream about that tonight. Only in his dream she won't have clothes on. And if he doesn't dream it, half the boys in the crowd will. Wake up dads. You know this."

    Sounds very Driscollesque to me (is 'Driscollesque' a word?). Actually... now that I think about it... Mark probably would have used different wording still.

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    1. Shawn on Fri, March 20, 2009

      Denise:


      huh?

    2. David Richardson on Mon, March 23, 2009

      What Piper said is just the simple, plain truth.  There’s no getting around that.  As the father of 3 girls, I would not want some boy wrestling with them in that way at all

    3. John on Mon, March 23, 2009

      Totally with Piper on this - it doesn’t matter if Piper “sounds” Driscollesque, he’s right - on another level, it won’t be long before a girl who is upset about something charges a guy with groping - you watch.   If you think that is sexist I’m afraid you’re naive.

    4. BC on Wed, March 25, 2009

      I believe that Piper is such an incredible preacher of the Gospel, that he should stay away from saying things like this.  I mean, what’s the point.  To me, it’s silliness.  I understand he has an opinion, but for someone who takes such a high view of expository preaching (which we must), this seems out of place.


      Piper, when being Piper, is great.  I think Driscoll has rubbed off on him, and that’s a true shame.

    5. Troy Rininger on Mon, March 30, 2009

      Piper is right on!   We are a wrestling family and wrestling is about pusishing your opponent.  I have not taught my boys to punish women in any sense.  Lets call this what it really is, the stealth advancement of the feminist agenda.  Sorry girls, you are not, and never will be bale to match up physically.

    6. Pat on Mon, March 30, 2009

      Weren’t some of these same concerns raised when women first were admitted into the military and then accepted into actual war?  In fact, if we go further back in history, hasn’t that been some of the concern about allowing women to do a lot of things that were traditionally considered male-oriented?  Seems things have worked out okay in other areas, why not here?  In the moment of what people are actually doing—wrestling, playing basketball, doing construction, combat, etc.—the minds at that moment are on the task, not on sex.

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