Vintage Jesus

Mark Driscoll is pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle. Many identify him as a spokesman for the up and coming generation of Christians – often referred to as the ‘emerging church’. But while Driscoll has planted a church that seeks to reach and disciple young people, he has stood strongly for decidedly ‘un-emerging values’ – chiefly the centrality of the cross, the absolute authority of the Bible, and the importance of a Gospel-preaching, disciple-making local church for all confessing Christians.

What Driscoll does well is provoke and challenge comfort zones. Are you looking for a different way to read your culture this week? Let this quote rattle around your brain as you read the news and drive around in your car. The world and the people you encounter in it may just look a little different to you.

“Today Jesus is alive and well, seated on a throne at the right hand of God the Father being worshiped as God by angels and departed saints.

Today Jesus alone rules and reigns in exalted glory as Lord over man and beast, male and female, gays and straights, young and old, rich and poor, black and white, simple and wise, powerful and powerless, Republicans and Democrats, married and single, chaste and unchaste, modern and postmodern, Christians and non-Christians, angels and demons, the living and the dead, every religion, every spirituality, every philosophy, every thought, every word, every deed, every dollar, and every inch of creation, which he claims as his possession under his throne that is over all.” (From Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears, Vintage Jesus, 158-159. Quoted from www.firstimportance.org)