First of all, if you missed the episode last night, you can view it on Nightline's site. We want to thank ABC, Nightline, and Terry Moran for inviting Pastor Mark to participate in an honest and even-handed look at the Ten Commandments. They've been great each time we've worked with them and we hope we'll get to do it again in the future.
We do need to make one point of clarification though. In the episode, they described Pastor Mark as a part of the emergent church. This is inaccurate. The distinctions of the Emergent Church have been discussed at length for years - none of which theologically fit the description of Mark Driscoll or Mars Hill Church.
Noted theologians, scholars, and pastors define the Emergent Church as unorthodox at best and heretical at worst. A brief look at our Doctrinal Statement or at Pastor Mark's series on Doctrine will make clear that we are theologically conservative but culturally liberal and, though we might wear jeans and Chuck Taylors, we have more in line theologically with men from the 1500's than the liberalism of the last two centuries.
For those of you with questions, here are two videos containing Pastor Mark's comments on the subject.
If you are interested in exploring this subject further, here are some resources we would recommend.
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First of all, if you missed the episode last night, you can view it on Nightline's site. We want to thank ABC, Nightline, and Terry Moran for inviting Pastor Mark to participate in an honest and even-handed look at the Ten Commandments. They've been great each time we've worked with them and we hope we'll get to do it again in the future.
We do need to make one point of clarification though. In the episode, they described Pastor Mark as a part of the emergent church. This is inaccurate. The distinctions of the Emergent Church have been discussed at length for years - none of which theologically fit the description of Mark Driscoll or Mars Hill Church.
Noted theologians, scholars, and pastors define the Emergent Church as unorthodox at best and heretical at worst. A brief look at our Doctrinal Statement or at Pastor Mark's series on Doctrine will make clear that we are theologically conservative but culturally liberal and, though we might wear jeans and Chuck Taylors, we have more in line theologically with men from the 1500's than the liberalism of the last two centuries.
For those of you with questions, here are two videos containing Pastor Mark's comments on the subject.
If you are interested in exploring this subject further, here are some resources we would recommend.