There are few Christian leaders in the world who have generated as much discussion over the past few years as Mark Driscoll. He is widely regarded as one of the most effective Christian communicators in the world.
Driscoll's hometown is Seattle. It's here he founded Mars Hill Church with a Bible study that was, "about the size of an average Mormon family". Today 7,000 people go to Mars Hill Church.
Driscoll is an intense Bible teacher, who identifies with today's "Cool Calvinist" movement, as well as past reformed heroes like Spurgeon and John Calvin himself. At the same time, he's not afraid of using extreme language and colourful stories to make his point, including references to Snoop Dogg, Pamela Anderson and bloodsports.
Burn Your Plastic Jesus is the biggest event of Driscoll's first visit to Australia. In it, he'll be taking a blowtorch to the modern, plastic picture of Jesus, "a limp-wrist hippie in a dress with a lot of product in His hair, who drank decaf and made pithy Zen statements about life."
Instead, Driscoll wants to take a fresh look at Jesus in the New Testament. As he says, "In Revelation, Jesus is a prize-fighter with a tattoo down His leg, a sword in His hand and the commitment to make someone BLEED. That is a guy I can worship."
On August 27, Burn Your Plastic Jesus will be an evening where your views of Jesus are powerfully challenged. An evening where you rediscover the Jesus of the New Testament. An evening where your life might well be changed forever
Get tickets here.
2 comments:
So far, 6,406 people are getting ready to Burn Your Plastic Jesus. Including an incendiary 105 people from Cambletown City Baptist Church. Come on Bible Talks!
Mars Hills attendance averaged less then 6000 last year and same for this year. I don't know why Mark always feels a need to inflate the attendance numbers when he talks.
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