{"id":385,"date":"2009-08-22T11:59:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T17:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2009-08-22T11:59:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T17:59:56","slug":"driscoll-on-hour-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/driscoll-on-hour-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Driscoll on ‘Hour of Power’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Driscoll<\/a> recently preached at Robert Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral. The video is now online<\/a>, and\u00c2\u00a0will also air on tomorrow’s Hour of Power broadcast<\/a>. I haven’t watched the sermon yet, but it’s sure to be interesting!<\/p>\n

In other Schuller-news, this week the White Horse Inn<\/a> radio program (Mike Horton, et al) posted the transcript<\/a> of their rather famous two-hour interview with\u00c2\u00a0Schuller in 1992. Here’s a sample:<\/p>\n

MH<\/strong><\/span>: Dr. Schuller, how could the cross as you write, “sanctify the ego trip,” and make us proud, in the light of passages that say, “I hate pride and arrogance (Prov. 8:13), “Pride goes before destruction” (Prov. 16:18),”The Lord detests all the proud” (Prov. 16:5), “Do not be proud”(Rom. 12:16), “Love does not boast it is not proud” (1Cor 13:4). In fact Paul warns Timothy that in the last days men “will be lovers of themselves” (2Tim 3:2). Why should we as Christian ministers, myself included, why should we do anything to encourage people to become “lovers of themselves” if Paul in fact warned others that that would be the state of godlessness in the last days?<\/p>\n

RS<\/strong>: I hope you don’t preach this, I hope you don’t preach this!<\/p>\n

MH<\/strong><\/span>: What, the texts?<\/p>\n

RS<\/strong>: No, what you just spoke into the microphone right now. I hope you don’t because you could do a lot of damage to a lot of beautiful people. But maybe if you preach it, maybe you will demonstrate your knowledge of human relationships and maybe you’ll demonstrate a sensitivity of caring about these pathetic, pathetic people that are so lost in pain and suffering because of their sinful condition, and I think you’d want to save them. I think you’d want to bring them to Jesus. And so if you preach that text, oh man, I sure hope you give it the kind of interpretation that I do or, I’ll tell you, you’ll drive them farther away and they’ll be madder than hell at you and they’ll turn the Bible off, and they’ll switch you off, and they’ll turn on the rock music and Madonna. Just because it’s in the Bible doesn’t mean you should preach it. And if you do, you have to say, “Who’s listening to me? Will they understand? And will the love of Jesus come through my words and through my message; through my personality. Will it come through my spirit? Will I come across as a humble person or will I come across as a person who’s kind of mean and know-it-all: I’ve got the answers and when people like Schuller come along, they’re heretics! Be careful, it is so difficult to preach some of those texts and not come across as lacking humility…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the rest of it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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