Before we had Ruth Westheimer (Dr. Ruth, sex therapist) and now we have our new sex guru in the post-modern world and his name is Mark Driscoll in his book, "Real Marriage". "Emerging" as the healer of marriages and the healthier sex life as Christians. He has come to save our institutions, in explaining to us, in vivid details (porn), as to how it should be behind close doors in the privacy of our bedrooms. Really? We haven't been able to figure this out for thousands of years until Mark came along? Once again as I have said many times throughout the years, controversy will always follow this man. He thrives for attention and can't live without it. The complete narcissist.
I don't know what's worst, a pastor depicting scripture in a form of ungodliness (world, fowl language) or degrading the Gospel message, women, sex..., as a representative of God. Is this what our great commission is to look and sound like? Is this what God had in mind, when He spoke those words, Go out into the world and preach the Gospel of salvation"? Where has the reverence of God gone? Should the message of God be an R rated message that needs to be parental controlled?
One critic of the book wrote; "It’s not difficult to imagine how this brash sloganeering has angered both conservative and liberal evangelicals. The Driscolls’ new book falls into that predictable divide, drawing fire from critics who dislike Driscoll’s aggressively “complementarian” view of gender roles (i.e., female submission), and from conservatives who think maybe the church just shouldn’t talk about anal sex. It has something to offend everyone, including a chapter titled “The Respectful Wife,” and another titled “Can We _____?” that gives qualified approval to oral sex, anal sex, masturbation, and other common evangelical taboos, as long as they’re in the context of heterosexual marriage
This is what the Emerging Church is all about and the dangers it poses to the church. Here is where we say, "The devil is in the details" What a disgrace for Driscoll to call himself a "Calvinist." "Reformer" and give REAL Calvinist, reformers, and John Calvin a black eye to his theology and conduct.
Blogger David Moore of Fuller Theological, who wrote several posts on the book, said that even though he’s “not much of a feminist,” Driscoll’s dramatic overreaction to his wife’s high-school affair struck him as another example of the guy’s view of his wife as his sexual servant. Moore picks out numerous passages from Real Marriage that seem to show Driscoll primarily concerned with the sexual needs of men. “This book is an astoundingly unbelievable work of disrespect for women,” Moore wrote.
“Grace is often cast as the damaged and sinful wife who withholds sex from her deserving husband, Mark the hero who is justified in leaving his wife but instead comes along to rescue her,” wrote Rachel Held Evans, a popular evangelical blogger and author, discussing the dream episode. “The amount of guilt and shame that pervades this part of the book makes me so sad.”
This really tells you where we are in the church today. How this supposedly "representative of God, could stand up there and spew this garbage out of his mouth, and the masses take it all in and embrace it, as if it was a message from God in our so called post-modern world, with open arms like a rock star, is beyond comprehension. If anyone does not think that we are in the last days, just take a good of one of the best examples within the church.
"In the last days, men will be lovers of themselves"
1 John 4:1 "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world".
Romans 16:17-18 "I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive".
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