Jan
22
2013

Mark Driscoll, John Piper, and Twitter

An article by Matt

Yesterday was Inauguration Day here in the United States. While the Christian community has been up in arms about this year’s festivities since Louie-Gate, many celebrated the Inaugural by watching the telecast or going about their usual daily ritual. Others, including two well known pastors, took to twitter and shared their thoughts on the day:

Praying for our president, who today will place his hand on a Bible he does not believe to take an oath to a God he likely does not know.

— Mark Driscoll (@PastorMark) January 21, 2013

President Obama “spiritually blind” or “evil hypocrite” in claiming MLK and disregarding the weakest. dsr.gd/13UCjLz

— John Piper (@JohnPiper) January 21, 2013

In this afternoon’s edition of Ministry Briefing Todd and I discuss these statements, and whether they are beneficial, hurtful, or neither. We’d love to hear your thoughts as well, click the link below to check out the discussion and share your thoughts:

About the Author: Matt Steen

Over the last fifteen years I have been a Church Planter, Youth Pastor, Executive Pastor, and now I serve as a Church Concierge with churchsimple.net. I love Jesus, my wife, the Redskins and Capitals and am currently living on Long Island striving to properly pronounce the word G'island.

http://dustn.tv/ Dustin W. Stout

Did you hear Shaun King’s response?
- http://www.churchthought.com Matt Steen
  
  I just saw that… utterly disgraceful.
  
  The lack of civil discourse in this world, both in the church and outside of it, are incredibly troubling to me. The fact that Driscoll makes comments about a man’s spiritual life without a significant relational connection is dangerous. I fear that people blindly taking up the defense of those who are spoken against is just as dangerous. Unless we are able to once again disagree civilly, we are in for a world of hurt.
  - http://dustn.tv/ Dustin W. Stout
    
    Agreed. But I don’t think Driscoll was wrong in what he said. In fact, I’m pretty confident if you asked the President publicly if he believed everything in the Bible, he would say “no”. And if the answer to that question is “no” then it is safe enough to say that he probably doesn’t know who God really is.
    
    Accurate or not though– it could have been more tactful.