8. The number of abortions in the U.S. have increased since the end of Roe v. Wade. - As abortion was one of the center topics during the election season, Driscoll compares the act with the sacrificing of children as commanded by the demon, Molech. "What is the Spirit of God saying to the churches? That we have to be pro-life from womb to tomb," Driscoll says. "That we have to help those women who have made a tragic choice and now regret it to know the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ and to know healing for themselves and hope for the eternal salvation of their child, whom God can call and save from the womb-- ' - Charisma News
There is so much here to unpack but let us start with the biblically asinine comparison of abortion to the sacrifice of children to Molech. These two things have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Sacrificing to Molech was to appease the false deity and were more a violation of the first commandment, in having no other gods. Women do not choose to have abortions today because they are worshipping a false Canaanite god. Driscoll does not care about that as he is a political demagogue cosplaying as a pastor and Christian. What is very interesting here is Driscoll correctly mentions that abortions have actually increased since Roe was overturned but then offers no insight as to why? It speaks volumes that the church has demanded the election of morally spurious candidates for the past few decades desperately chasing the overturn of Roe only to discover that it failed miserably to actually lower the number of abortions. This is what happens when you make a Faustian bargain with the devil. It is time for Christians to stop being myopic in their voting. It is also worth noting that Driscoll claims God is saying the church has to be pro life from the womb to the tomb but he passionately demands Christians vote for candidates who are obviously not. This hypocrisy is not lost on the world who sees so much emphasis on abortion but at the same time no support for poor mothers, childcare, healthcare, or any number of societal issues that should also be considered, "pro-life." Again, Driscoll is not saying these things from a church perspective but rather from a political one. Does anyone seriously think that God is prophetically saying through Mark Driscoll that NOW the church has to care about life from the womb to the tomb or that we need to counsel women who have had to make that decision to abort a child? Now? Shouldn't the church have always been about all facets of life?
9. God is cleaning house in the body of Christ. - Looking at the declining numbers of pastors who hold a biblical worldview, Driscoll says God is cleaning house in the church for only the true believers in Christ Jesus to remain. "God's people need to be given a biblical worldview. And it's not just accept Jesus and you'll go to heaven when you die; it's how to grow in your relationship with God every step of the journey."
Yeah, no. The term "biblical worldview" is pure NAR dominionist propaganda. Do you want to know God's biblical worldview? Preach the gospel. When Jesus walked the earth, His own people were being oppressed horribly by Rome. Do you know what Jesus did about it? Absolutely nothing because His kingdom is not of this world. He came to deliver the world from sin and the oppression of the devil. Not the oppression of Rome. Not the oppression of the Democratic Party in America. He does not care if football coaches get to pray with their players after games. He does not care if schools do not allow forced prayer at the start of the day. He does not care if there are monuments to the Ten Commandments outside of courthouses. He does however, care if the vehicle He has chosen to deliver the gospel to the lost, the church, is too busy hating the very people that need the gospel the most. By the way, the number of NAR pastors is not declining. I wish it were. Idolatry in the form of nationalism is most certainly on the rise with the absolute worship of Donald Trump. False teachers like Jack Hibbs, Mario Murillo and Greg Locke all wrote a month before the election that if Christians did not vote for their idol, they would be going to hell. Hibbs even said those that chose to not vote at all were hell bound. Even Dr. Michael Brown, before we discovered that he built his holiness teaching empire while he was having phone sex with another man's wife and swatting a 19 year old student on the butt, said there was no way as a Christian he could vote for any Democratic candidate. The gospel is not "accepting Jesus, whatever that Osteenish caricature is supposed to mean, but it is disturbing that Driscoll is teaching that somehow eternal life is not enough. That instead, growing our relationship with God now must incorporate voting patterns and being involved in cultural issues that actually have no eternal value. That is pure NAR theology.
Driscoll finishes with some inane point about the church allowing themselves to be counseled by their own children. He based this on the silly notion that because a billionaire politician allowed his son to advise him what podcasts to go on, that somehow, we all need to be advised by our kids. It only served as another setup though to push his NAR dominionist views. That the church has to enter 2025 concerned not about the things of God and the gospel but rather on the culture wars of the Republican Party. At the end of the day, that is all Mark Driscoll cares about. Don't forget, he is claiming these are prophetic predictions. That God has said this to him to then say to the church. It is amazing how "god" always seems to be 100 percent in agreement with his politics. That is the primary feature of a cult belief system and the textbook definition of idolatry. Mrk Driscoll worships a different god. I would say mark and avoid but we all should have been marking and avoiding him already from his days as the Dr. Ruth Westheimer of Pentecostalism and then as the bully driving the Mars Hill bus, stealing the tithe monies from his own church. This new rebranded Mark Driscoll is just as false as the prior iteration. Pick your heresy but stay far, far away.
Reverend Anthony Wade - January 1, 2025
