Posted by Hugh in Since September 2007, Matt Chandler from The Village Church, in Dallas, Texas, has been preaching through Luke’s Gospel, he’s up to around chapter 6. It’s really good stuff, a nice length to listen to and very challenging. Add it to your podcast feed!
Chandler is mates with Driscoll and doing a similar kind of Reformed Missional church, like Mars Hill. But, in a different place, so it’s interesting listening to a similar style/methodology/missiology, but preaching into a different context/culture. Driscoll is dealing with postmodern, liberal, pagan, Seattle-ites. Chandler on the other hand is largely dealing with Fundamentalist Bible-belters and Osteen-Prosperity types, so has lots to say to those who are religious or brought up in Christian tradition.
Starting to think about how to best do this kind of Reformission in the UK… thoughts to follow over the next few months…
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Definitely something that needs thinking about. There’s an article in Evangelicals Now about Driscoll, incidentally - I think the writer perhaps hasn’t seen how Driscoll has changed in recent years.
Might have to give Chandler a listen!
Just read that Driscoll article.
I think there’s two things I’d say; one, it’s out of date / not overly well researched, and two it’s really just the same criticisms coming out, nothing new…
It’s out of date because as you say Driscoll has changed, he has repented, and has recently stressed his accountability to the elders and the way he has been mentored by the likes of Piper and Mahaney. Driscoll to my knowledge has never sworn in a sermon - B.S. is two letters.
It’s the same criticism, it says “We like your doctrine, but not your methods, we’d much rather you did it our way”… if more people read Radical Reformission (to understand where Driscoll is coming from, his missiology) there would be more people willing to engage with and speak into our culture. I get the feeling that Josh Moody and others are a bit scared to actually engage with normal people, who like normal things. Criticising secular music (as a first step to draw people to hear the gospel), criticising preaching frankly about sex etc. they seem to be moralistic and disengaged with not just culture, but reality.
Yeah listen to Chandler, I like. Nice to see a little Word Alive supplement there in EN too - I’ll see you there I presume?