Confessions of a Reformission Rev
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Mark Driscoll
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An autobiographical chronology of Mark Driscoll's journey founding and growing Mars Hill Church in Seattle, up through mid-2005.
Doc's Take
Mark is at his best when he is in free-form rant mode. While his pot-shots and one-liners that roll off the tongue seem rather forced in print, in this book Mark is very much in-character: irreverent, transparent, and wholly obsessed with knowing Jesus more and doing His work more faithfully.
Do not turn to this book looking for formulas. Mark goes through several that he rejects and several that he accepts -- for a time, until he needs something different. Do look for candid stories of Mark's many attempts to kill his church through neglect, abuse, over-zealousness, and his own innumerable sins, and God's graciousness through it all. Look for unceremonious stories about opponents that turned out for ill and for good. Do look to this book for encouragement that God is faithful, that He is bigger than our wisdom and our foolishness, our humility and our pride, our best and worst ideas, our strengths and our weaknesses.
The one thing noticeably absent from the book is an account of Mark's relationship and parting of ways with David Nicholas of Spanish River Church (Boca Raton, FL). My understanding was that Nicholas was a valued friend, coach, and mentor to Driscoll in the late 90s, but that Nicholas disassociated himself from Acts 29 for reasons that were not made publicly clear.
