Mars Hill and Mark Driscoll

I have recently been turned on to Mark Driscoll, the pastor of Mars Hill in Seattle. Mars Hill is now like 7 congregations with 20 weekly worship services. Mark’s blog has been giving me abundant encouragement and insight in a number of different areas. I would encourage everyone to check it out…

http://blog.marshillchurch.org/

On the church website you can view tons of sermons and notes and resources on everything they do.

One of the reason’s why I like Driscoll is because he is young, cool, funny, relevant, sarcastic, and real. And at the same time he is doctrinally very conservative and unflinching. He is straightforward and uncompromising. It gives me great hope to see someone that holds so strongly to literal Biblical doctrine be so impactful and relevant to scores of young adults. To the point that Mars Hill combined attendance is over 8000 people now.

As ministers and simply as Christ followers we can be relevant, trendy, and cool without giving up doctrine. We can still have strong doctrine and reach the younger generation. To be doctrinally strong we don’t have to be stuffy old guys who never have fun. It doesn’t have to be either or. There need not be any compromising.