Uberblogger Halden recently posted the following quote from Seattle pastor Mark Driscoll. Halden also had several lines of colorful commentary to go with it. Let’s just say that I don’t think Driscoll’s logic follows here at all – read any men’s magazines lately? In short, this is pretty horrifying, as usual. [Reader beware - the following is pretty crude...]
Without blushing, Paul is simply stating that when it comes to leading in the church, women are unfit because they are more gullible and easier to deceive than men. While many irate women have disagreed with his assessment through the years, it does appear from this that such women who fail to trust his instruction and follow his teaching are much like their mother Eve and are well-intended but ill-informed. . . Before you get all emotional like a woman in hearing this, please consider the content of the women’s magazines at your local grocery store that encourages liberated women in our day to watch porno with their boyfriends, master oral sex for men who have no intention of marrying them, pay for their own dates in the name of equality, spend an average of three-fourths of their childbearing years having sex but trying not to get pregnant, and abort 1/3 of all babies – and ask yourself if it doesn’t look like the Serpent is still trolling the garden and that the daughters of Eve aren’t gullible in pronouncing progress, liberation, and equality.
Mark Driscoll, Church Leadership: Explaining the Roles of Jesus, Elders, Deacons, and Members at Mars Hill, Mars Hill Theology Series (Seattle, WA: Mars Hill Church, 2004), 43.
Thank you Mr Driscoll for clearing up that oft debated subject. I can’t wait to tell myserver at B-Dubs tonight (should the server be female) that I have the cure for her femininity. (because clearly her greatest problem would be simply being a woman) A little of the Apostle Paul according to the “Apostle Mark’. I hope he went on to add some sort of stability to the rest of that statement. Otherwise, yikes.