Mark Driscoll Kicks His Own Ass

Is making fun of those who may disagree with the Emergent movement the best way to get your point across? It seems that for a movement that seeks to value the opinions of all, you sure don’t seem to value those who disagree with you.

rick, did you miss the links in the first sentence?

David,
I don’t agree with either attacks here. My point for both is to grow up and handle this like people would who claim the name of Christ.

However, I find the Emergent group to be highly focused on using crass humor to handle their opposers.

Furthermore, the fact that the Emergent Village posted an attack on one of their opponents by another is an attack itself.

Hey Rick,

The Wittenberg Door has made fun of Emergent also—loads of times!—which was the point of the links in the first part. This is satire. Rather biting satire, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call these “attacks.” To assume that is to assume that the Door (and Emergent for that matter) is being oppositional.

I’m sorry for offending you with this post. I had a friend tell me that this post should’ve been marked “NSFW” (“Not Safe for Work”), so maybe I should’ve been a bit more sensitive about the language used in the article. I appreciate that kind of feedback.

I guess my assumption is that Mark Driscoll can probably take the joke, if he’s not laughing along himself with all of it (as we should hopefully be doing when the Door and others make fun of Emergent).

Emergent Village has built
it’s house upon the sand.

Hey Rick—I’ve written some articles for the Door and I can honestly say that they don’t see articles like this as an attack. They like to exaggerate and poke fun as a way of holding up a mirror to the church (emergent, non-emergent, whatever). That’s why they’re ‘equal opportunity’ in the way they poke fun.

I just realized I’m defending the Door. They would no doubt make fun of me for this. :)

Obviously some people have nothing better to do than read EV blogs and find somethingthey can criticise. Too bad because mnethinks this is surely one of the reasons society at large laughs at the church. Honestly, we’re too many times sticks-in-the-mud, party-poopers, and walk around as if we have a broomstick up our backsides! Lighten up Rick.

Obviously some people have nothing better to do than read EV blogs and find somethingthey can criticise. Too bad because mnethinks this is surely one of the reasons society at large laughs at the church. Honestly, we’re too many times sticks-in-the-mud, party-poopers, and walk around as if we have a broomstick up our backsides! Lighten up Rick.