Driscoll on the Emergent Jesus

Here is a blurb from the magazine, Relevant (click pic for website). It’s not exactly politically correct, but it’s worth the read. Since my kids and I are reading the Narnia series by C. S. Lewis (for the 8th time!), the following quotes reminded me of Lewis’ excellent descriptions of Aslan.

What trends in church and worship styles do you see? Are they positive or negative?

Mark Driscoll: “I’ll be happy when we have more than just prom songs to Jesus sung by some effeminate guy on an acoustic guitar offered as mainstream worship music….”

What do you see as the greatest challenge for young Christians in the next 10 years?

Mark Driscoll: “There is a strong drift toward the hard theological left. Some emergent types [want] to recast Jesus as a limp-wrist hippie in a dress with a lot of product in His hair, who drank decaf and made pithy Zen statements about life while shopping for the perfect pair of shoes. In Revelation, Jesus is a pride fighter with a tattoo down His leg, a sword in His hand and the commitment to make someone bleed. That is a guy I can worship. I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up. I fear some are becoming more cultural than Christian, and without a big Jesus who has authority and hates sin as revealed in the Bible, we will have less and less Christians, and more and more confused, spiritually self-righteous blogger critics of Christianity.”

Wow! Click the magazine pic above to read other prominent church leaders’ (Rob Bell, Rick Warren, etc.) answers to the same and other questions.

shane lems

sunnyside wa