Jason Blair writes:
Are we seeing pride going before destruction?
I think I’m done ripping on Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill. My heart was sick today after reading this account (part 1 and part 2) of that church’s idea of “discipline.”
Instead, they need prayer, and a lot of it. The article puts it from the perspective of the one who left, but if that kind of abuse is true, they’re headed for a fall, and it could be a big one. One might wish to write this off as gossip or the ranting of an unrepentant person, but there are others who have similar stories.
The behavior described has more in common with cults that maintain strict control over their captives than the kind of mutually loving community that is supposed to identify Christ’s people in the world.
There are far too many who have left churches and turned their backs on Jesus because of the abuses they’ve suffered at the hands of legalistic abusers. I really do hope and pray this is an exaggeration, or that the abuse will stop. I seriously doubt this is what the Young, Restless, and Reformed want to be. (I hope it’s not what they want to be.)
