A months back I read about some controversy surrounding Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church.  Nothing surprising there, the dude gets himself in trouble constantly around the blogosphere.  The controversy I read about this time was a video that he made about church planting that he (and the guys from the ACTS 29 network) made in lieu of him personally speaking at this year's National New Church Conference.  I watched the beginning of the video, but due to it's 8 minute length I decided to read more about the controversy rather than watch the whole controversial video for myself.  From my reading, the response on the blogosphere seemed minor when compared to some of Driscoll's other foot-in-mouth episodes of recent.  So I didn't pay much attention to it.

That was until today when I read this post from Pete Rollins. Pete tells it like it is and shares his European perspective on Driscoll.  For a while I have wondered why we continue to put up with Driscoll's antics, why we continue to give him a voice in the American emerging church. Rollins seems to wonder the same thing.  In any case, today I watched the entire 8 minute clip and I am amazed this didn't get more outlash from bloggers.  Maybe it did and I missed it.  I followed the story mainly via Andrew Jones, who consistently tends to apply more grace to situations like these than I do.  If you haven't watched this video clip, you have to check it out (make sure to watch it all).

Here's some of things I am still in disbelief that Driscoll seems to insinuate:

– Only men can be effective church planters. (this is not so surprising from Driscoll's mouth)

– women play no significant role in the church 

– Church planting is comparable to war (you can take that one pretty far)

– the world sees Jesus as a gay hippy in a dress?

– all 20yr-30yr old men are "banging their girlfriends", spending all their money, staying up all night playing World of Warcraft, looking for free porn on the internet, and trying to figure out how to get a bigger subwoofer for their "retarded" car 

– the church needs men to teach the men how to make money, buy a house, and have sex with their wives at least once a day (daily sex quota is a big priority of Jesus no doubt)

Is he trying to piss people off?  Please someone explain this to me.

Here's the video: link