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    Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church
    Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church
    Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church
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    Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church

    Written by Mark Driscoll

    Narrated by Art Carlson

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    This is the story of the birth and growth of Seattle’s innovative Mars Hill Church, one of America’s fastest growing churches located in one of America’s toughest mission fields. It’s also the story of the growth of a pastor, the mistakes he’s made along the way, and God’s grace and work in spite of those mistakes. Mark Driscoll’s emerging, missional church took a rocky road from its start in a hot, upstairs youth room with gold shag carpet to its current weekly attendance of thousands. With engaging humor, humility, and candor, Driscoll shares the failures, frustrations, and just plain messiness of trying to build a church that is faithful to the gospel of Christ in a highly post-Christian culture. In the telling, he’s not afraid to skewer some sacred cows of traditional, contemporary, and emerging churches. Each chapter discusses not only the hard lessons learned but also the principles and practices that worked and that can inform your church’s ministry, no matter its present size. The book includes discussion questions and appendix resources. “After reading a book like this, you can never go back to being an inwardly focused church without a mission. Even if you disagree with Mark about some of the things he says, you cannot help but be convicted to the inner core about what it means to have a heart for those who don’t know Jesus.”—Dan Kimball, author,The Emerging Church “… will make you laugh, cry, and get mad … school you, shape you, and mold you into the right kind of priorities to lead the church in today’s messy world.”—Robert Webber, Northern Seminary
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateJun 15, 2009
    ISBN9780310304692
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    Mark Driscoll

    Mark Driscoll is one of the 50 most influential pastors in America, and the founder of Mars Hill Church in Seattle (www.marshillchurch.org), the Paradox Theater, and the Acts 29 Network which has planted scores of churches. Mark is the author of The Radical Reformission: Reaching Out Without Selling Out. He speaks extensively around the country, has lectured at a number of seminaries, and has had wide media exposure ranging from NPR’s All Things Considered to the 700 Club, and from Leadership Journal to Mother Jones magazine. He’s a staff religion writer for the Seattle Times. Along with his wife and children, Mark lives in Seattle.

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    • 4/5
      This is the story of the birth and growth of Seattle's innovative Mars Hill Church, one of America's fastest growing churches located in one of America's toughest mission fields. It's also the story of the growth of a pastor, the mistakes he's made along the way, and God's grace and work in spite of those mistakes. Mark Driscoll's emerging, missional church took a rocky road from its start in a hot, upstairs youth room with gold shag carpet to its current weekly attendance of thousands. With engaging humor, humility, and candor, Driscoll shares the failures, frustrations, and just plain messiness of trying to build a church that is faithful to the gospel of Christ in a highly post-Christian culture. In the telling, he's not afraid to skewer some sacred cows of traditional, contemporary, and emerging churches. Each chapter discusses not only the hard lessons learned but also the principles and practices that worked and that can inform your church's ministry, no matter its present size. The book includes discussion questions and appendix resources. 'After reading a book like this, you can never go back to being an inwardly focused church without a mission. Even if you disagree with Mark about some of the things he says, you cannot help but be convicted to the inner core about what it means to have a heart for those who don't know Jesus.'---Dan Kimball, author,The Emerging Church '... will make you laugh, cry, and get mad ... school you, shape you, and mold you into the right kind of priorities to lead the church in today's messy world.'---Robert Webber, Northern Seminary
    • 4/5
      If you have any interest in Mark Driscoll and the Mars Hill Church this is the book for you. Driscoll details the beginning and growth of Mars Hill and his struggles to become a pastor, both in general, and specifically of a megachurch. He is very candid and no doubt some will be offended by his statements and approach to ministry. If you think it sounds easy to run a successful church then you definitely need to read this book - it required years of complete dedication and a high energy entrepreneurial attitude.
    • 4/5
      A fine look at the beginnings and growth of Mars Hill Church in Seattle with lessons for pastors about administering a church and lessons for believers as a whole about living in one. Driscoll speaks frankly about practical problems as well as theology and trends in the modern church. He's always interesting, blunt, and humerous (and I know he'd get a kick out of someone from the South finally getting his jokes), and so I would recommend this book even for those who are not pastors and do not want to be. Even lay people will be able to better understand this great thing we are a part of.
    • 3/5
      With a zeal for evangelism, Mark Driscoll believes that the main purpose of the Church is evangelism (evangelism continually remained our highest priority-p. 150 etc). While certainly part of the great commission (Mt. 28), it could be argued that the principle role is discipleship and santification which, done properly, results in evangelism.
    • 3/5
      Driscoll describes his experience planting Mars Hill with much candor. His passion is definitely on prominent display here. Sometimes though, I feel he has honorable intentions, but tries too hard to win over the "non-churchy" types. He comes across as well-versed in toilet humor and misogynistic or overly obsessed with an alpha-male typology, and that really doesn't help me in imagining how Christ's Body might or should wrap a lost, hurting culture in its loving arms.
    • 1/5
      Dissapointing at best, bigoted at worst.
    • 5/5
      Hard hitting book done in true Driscoll style. Find it difficult to understand people who have an issue with Driscoll's style. Sure you may not like it - but at least he is true to his character. this man is on fire for God and reaching out to the lost of the world. His story is chronicled here in all it's raw beauty
    • 4/5
      I've just finished this book and loved it. I laughed loud and often. His candor and honesty, even his caustic tone, is somewhat refreshing. He's a guy with one foot in the Reformed Community of faith, and another in the Emerging Church. That is a rare combo - most reformed folk eschew the emerging church, and most emerging types don't like to embrace "a theology", but Driscoll has fully embrace Reformed theology, but still seeks to lead a missional church. I took a lot from his first book also, but this is more mature and he more readily confesses his mistakes and sin. Also, it's refreshing that he doesn't offer his way of doing it as the paradigm for how it should be done. It worked in his city, with his personality, etc. In fact, he seems to offer it not so much as a how to book, but as a testimony to what God is doing in his church and city. Driscoll does seem to have one major blind spot that bothers me. He is quite willing to forgive all kinds of sin in other and in himself (like cussing people out all the time). However, there seems to be an unpardonable sin in Driscolls church - a lack of ability. What do I mean? Well, Driscolls' short ministry life is marked by a ton of 'firings'. He tells the story of a worship leader who had been with them for year. By Driscoll's admission, he was a great worship leader, a talented musician, and a man of God. However, as the church grew, they moved away from one worship team and to a team of worship teams (maybe as many as ten). This guy who had been with them for years wasn't a great administrator and couldn't give 'adequate' leadership to all the bands, so he was fired. I struggle with this mentality. I just seems to pragmatic.On the whole, however, this is one of the best accounts of a missional, emerging church doing things right (most emerging guys wouldn't even like that label. Oh well).
    • 4/5
      What a strange book and what a strange man.Mark leads us through the growth of Mars Hill, Seattle from a group of 12 meeting in his home to a church of over 4000. In the process, he reveals sides of himself that make you wince.As a pastor who believes in the call to make disciples, I constantly reach out to hear what these men who have built big churches have to say. And over and over again, I hear the same message: The church is built on the energy and drive of one mighty leader and will most likely self-destruct when that leaders falls, leaves, or dies. I hear that the personal price is overwhelming, that the biggest mistress of pastors is ministry, that they sleep with other women just to relieve the pressure.There is a lot of good material in this book. I learned a lot of lessons vicariously that I wouldn't want to live through. But the culture that Mark has created more and more feels like a gathering instead of a church.