And he said to them, "What things?" And they said to him, "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning, and when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. - Luke 24:19-23 (ESV)
Ten years ago, in the dead of night, renegade false teacher Mark Driscoll snuck out of the Seattle area before his own elders could properly discipline him. Lord knows he needed the discipline, because he had been on a crusade for ten years prior to be the most unagreeable, abusive pastor in modern times. You know it is bad when the organization you founded, Acts 29, kicks you out. What is worse and often glossed over, is the absolute fact that Driscoll stole $200,000 in tithes to pay a company to cheat the New York Times Best Seller list. In typical apostate church fashion however, Driscoll landed a new job a year later in Arizona. While he was initially subdued, so no one would notice that he was back abusing sheep and fleecing the flock, Driscoll now seems untethered, not only from scripture, but from his sordid past. He has written a new book, because he knows how to squeeze every nickel out of the scam he has working. This new book is offensively titled, "Vote Like Jesus." Mark has always been a dominionist at heart and as such, he may as well have titled this book, "Vote like a Republican"; because there is not a whiff of objectivity or biblical foundation. If we were to truly vote like Jesus, we would not vote at all. It is beyond a distortion to suggest otherwise. Jesus was ENTIRELY apolitical during His life on earth. Keep in mind that the politics of His day were pretty egregious for His people too. All of His followers thought that Jesus was going to deliver them from the oppression and persecution of the Roman Empire. So much so, that after He had spent three years ministering to them and explaining how His kingdom was not of this earth, it was still the focus of lament for His followers. The key verses are from the "Road to Emmaus" scriptures in Luke. Even in the middle of doubting the claims of the resurrection, their focus was only that they had hoped He would be the one to redeem Israel. He did of course, but they were still looking for political redemption, not spiritual redemption. Past is indeed prologue as dominionists in the apostate church today are laser focused not on the eternal redemption of the gospel, but on faux redemption from their perceived political enemies.
As a side note, Driscoll has apparently been channeling his inner Jim Bakker as he is running a giveaway promotion to get a free copy of his book, along with a 90-day supply of emergency food, an electric generator, portable fridge, and a smokeless grill. In typical Driscoll fashion, he is doing a sermon series disguised as being biblical but really just designed to sell his book. He did the same thing when he paid the marketing company the tithe monies to cheat the New York Times. That was a book about marriage and to promote it, he did a series on it. Not too self-serving, eh Mark? I have reviewed his sermon notes, linked above, so let us reason once more together regarding a man who disqualified himself from ministry years ago but is still tolerated.
He opens up by claiming that most pastors and churches say we should stay out of politics and just teach the bible. It should be of little surprise that the notion of just teaching the bible, is wholly rejected by Mark Driscoll. Instead, he is teaching that liberal churches actively push their side of the agenda and conservative churches are mostly quiet. Say what? All conservative churches do is preach the carnal politics of man! On Charisma News, I would say that 80-85% of the articles are political and all of them have a singular point and agenda - vote republican or else! Or else what? Well, according to people like Dr. Michael Brown, a Christian cannot vote Democratic. According to Jack Hibbs, you will answer for your voting record when you stand before Christ. Well, that is if you did not vote for the three times married, three times unfaithful, once with a porn star, six times bankrupt, convicted rapist with 34 other felonies. According to lunatics Mario Murillo and Greg Locke you are literally going to hell and are unredeemable if you do not vote as they do. So, Driscoll's opening point is asinine. Conservative churches will not shut up about politics as it is their new savior and gospel.
He then claims that he has a significant opportunity to teach and disciple from the word of God, which he equates to having a biblical worldview. This is an important point because it is a hallmark of false dominionist teaching. We should be aware that when we hear this term, we are being lied to. Let me explain. When they say biblical worldview, it is just their view. They take two issues and two issues only - gay marriage and abortion and pretend these are the only things that matter to God. Destroying His creation? Nah, that's ok. Taking care of the least in society and taking the stranger in? Nah. That's for suckers. Widows and orphans? Hey, what are you a commie? It is a real simple equation for them to sell. The Republican Party candidates are always going to be pro-life and always are going to hate gay people. Case closed, there is your "biblical worldview." Except that is not how God views the world at all. What is also missing in their equation is political campaigning is the business of promising things you never deliver on and even in the rare cases where you feel like someone did deliver, the results may not be what you thought. Did you know for example that since overturning Roe, abortions have increased? No point in letting a pesky things like facts disturb your talking points. No candidate cares about the cause of Jesus Christ and while we may think we get the two points with our candidate, what else are we voting for? What other evil policies are we ignoring? Christians have not been instructed by God to be myopic.
Driscoll now makes the absolutely absurd point that you cannot be biblical without being political. The absurdity is that it is the opposite of truth. Politics is all about lying to attain and keep power. There is NOTHING biblical about it. God does not care about our politics beloved. If Jesus did not do anything about the Roman Empire when He walked the earth, why in the world do you think He is making sure Donald Trump or anyone for that matter, gets elected. Because he has no shame, Driscoll claims that the backdrop of the bible is political. His lame reasoning is that because God refers to a kingdom and there was a war in heaven, that somehow this means we should all vote Republican today. What a sad and blasphemous joke. The rebellion of Lucifer was not politics. God does not refer to His kingdom as some kind of hidden code for evil false preachers to convince you into voting for one carnal candidate or the other. Driscoll continues his descent into the bosom of his political masters by declaring that "entire books" of the bible were God versus the government and offers up Egypt in Exodus, Babylon in Daniel, and Rome in the New Testament. Talk about missing the point! So, you think that God wrote the book of Exodus to highlight the politics of Egypt? Or that He wrote Daniel to get into the intricacies of Babylon? Or the entire New Testament to discuss the political landscape in Rome? Are you insane? The point of Joseph was redemption, not politics. The point of Daniel was redemption not politics. The point of the New Testament is redemption, not politics. Are you sensing a theme mark? The bible is not your plaything to manipulate as you like to push your worldly NAR agenda. It is about redemption in Christ! Did Egypt have internal politics? Babylon? Rome? Of course, but they were not the focus nor the point of scripture. They were entirely ancillary to tell the story. We already highlighted in the key verses that man is always focused on his own politics and misses the point of redemption that Christ is always offering.
