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Good Post Driscoll
11/17/06 - 11:46:32 am
Categories: Ministry, Reconciliation

When I sat down to read Driscoll's most recent blog post, titled Thank You Critics, I was ready for a walloping through many pithy remarks alluding to the lack of masculinity of male critics and the out of place nature of women critics. To my surprise it was not like that at all. His frequent use of "Bible-believing" throughout his posts certainly mark as pithy rhetoric, but overall I felt that this post was a good clarification. I am glad to see Driscoll exercising prudence:

I have waited some time to post this clarification because in times past I have gotten angry and responded with a tone that was defensive, prideful, and not helpful.


For that and for recognition of what critics can do, I give kudos(Myspace reference) to Driscoll.


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Comment from: dave [Visitor] Email · http://www.mindfulmission.com

I was not impressed, and this is why.

Driscoll is too arrogant to realize that the issue that we all have with him go way beyond his one comment about Haggard. Just this last week gave a nice progession - men, then women, then rabbits. What a swell guy.

He arrogantly believes that this is the first thing that he may have made a mistake on, and still refuses to apologize. All he does is say that he can understand why people misinterpreted him.

I am not impressed...

PermalinkPermalink 11/17/06 @ 19:32
Comment from: Kevin [Member] Email

No doubt the guy is arrogant, and like most, they assume that they have not made so many grievous mistakes as people think that they have. I am not impressed with Driscoll either, but I will give him the benefit of the doubt on this issue. Certainly his wounding words go much farther back than this one incident, but to make a decent ammends regarding one incident is big for Driscoll. I appreciate that he acknowledged his typical fashion of responding as not helpful.

PermalinkPermalink 11/20/06 @ 10:11
Comment from: Dave [Member] Email · http://www.mindfulmission.com

but to make a decent ammends regarding one incident is big for Driscoll.
Sure...but the problem is that he does not realize that is goes so much further and so much deeper than this one incident. That is precisely the problem. People are not freaking about his one Haggard comment. People are freaking about because this was just one more in a long line of hurtful and harmful comments. And he doesn't get that.
I appreciate that he acknowledged his typical fashion of responding as not helpful.
I agree...

I just need to stop talking about the guy...

PermalinkPermalink 11/20/06 @ 10:56

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