Mark Driscoll and Obsessed Bloggers

By now, many in the blogosphere have read about Mark Driscoll making some comments regarding his thoughts about certain aspects of the “Emergent” church movement. If you haven’t, no big loss. It fact, it’s probably a blessing. Just move on to something more important.

If you have, then let me say the same thing. Just move on with it. I read and respect much of what Driscoll has to say but in the large scope of things, it doesn’t matter whether you agree or disagree. If you put your thoughts out there in the blogosphere or in a podcast, you’re likely to get called out. Your chances of such grow exponentially if you’re a high profile guy like Driscoll. I doubt if I said the same things, it would have had nearly the limited impact it did in the blog world on some who apparently follow Driscoll’s every word.

I have bigger things to worry about. The church needs more people. It needs more salvations. It needs more baptisms. I don’t have time to play tit for tat with people who want to question others’ intentions. Oh, I might share my opinion on the culture and even within some things that alarm me in Christendom but I’m not going to take my time to call out every person I disagree with nor waste blog space carrying on about it. Driscoll has been taken to task for everything from overweight wives, out of control young men, “limp wristed” leadership (as he called it), and now this. Personally, I don’t care. Give it a rest. We need to be focused on winning the lost and discipling them into strong Christians. Everything else is just fodder really.

If you want to read some good leadership/preaching material, pick up copies of Michael Quicke’s preaching and leading books from Baker Books. Both are excellent reads.