I’ve privacy-locked my post from yesterday in which I quoted a recent blog entry from Pastor Mark Driscoll (of Seattle’s Mars Hill Church) about mainline churches and liberal theology.
While I still stand by the post’s assertions, it’s becoming apparent to me that the way that it was framed might paint an inaccurate picture of me and where I stand in relation to the larger culture. I am not fighting some “Culture War” that somehow pits Jesus against the pet issues that my fellow evangelicals like to harp on. I’m far more interested in seeing culture transformed by Christ through local churches than seeing culture taken over by political conservatives masquerading as the “Evangelical Voting Bloc”.
Along with that, the post (taken by itself and without any real conversation) was less than loving and could appear homophobic and misogynistic (both of which I abhor).
So, like I said, I stand by the assertions made by Driscoll, but my bald reposting of them showed a real lack of the grace required of me. Please forgive me.
(To see Driscoll’s blog entry, click here, and to see the L.A. Times article that it partially relied on, click here.)
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aww sad. you didn’t have to do that…but, thanks for the clarifying. i too have posted things with realizing the way it would come across to other people and went back for editing. i appreciate the consideration.
uhhh….where did the DW forum go and how do I get to it?
Rae,
I probably should do more of this myself.
Thank you for the picture of humility. We can never get enough pictures of this.
We need a new entry.
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