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01/30/2012 - 1:00pm

Thanks for the well thought out response. I think Mark needs men and women in his life who truly love him and aren't impressed by him.

I'd love for this to be a case where grace overcomes the train wreck.

 Why Mark Driscoll Needs an Elephant view
01/23/2012 - 11:01am

Thanks so much for this review. It gets well beyond the flowery, fan-driven stuff that so often permeates Christian "nice" culture.

Like you, the most concerning part of the book is that so many people are buying a marriage book by people who aren't experts. Being married and being a popular megachurch pastor does not make you an expert. And in the introduction Mark claims they wrote the book to help people and because they get asked a lot for marriage advice.

Being a married pastor doesn't make you a marriage expert any more than being a nineteen year old basketball star makes you a hall of fame coach.

It says a lot about Christian culture that people would look towards non-experts for advice, and that these non-experts would capitalize financially when they should just refer like most pastors I know to a qualified, trained, licensed counselor.

 He Said, She Said: Driscoll's "Real Marriage" is Really Not view
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