Introducing: The Radical Reformission by Mark Driscoll

Hello everyone! Welcome to those who followed the link on my Facebook page, and welcome back all those who followed this blog last year through Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Four Loves by CS Lewis, and Good News for Anxious Chistians by Philip Cary.

I now attend MIT, where classes start this upcoming Wednesday, September 5th. Accordingly, I will start posting quotes then. For the fall semester, I have chosen Mark Driscoll's The Radical Reformission to gather and post quotes from. I first read this book this last spring, and while I'd heard many of the points in Pastor Mark's sermons, it was refreshing to see them all in one place.

A warning: You might find some of Mark's style especially biting and even possibly offensive. He isn't crass, but he doesn't hold back the criticism of the way a lot of American churches work. If you find yourself reacting that way, I'd challenge you to address those criticisms! Don't become an automatic defender of the tradition you're familiar with. On the other hand, you also might find, as I did, that his analysis of the situation is refreshingly clear-minded. He is very well-read and exposes himself widely to the culture he's a part of. I wouldn't be posting quotes from this book if I thought otherwise.

This topic is especially relevant for me today as I search for a new church to attend in Boston. For anyone in a similar situation: Don't make them the only criterion in your search, but I'd urge you to join a church with the "radical reformissional" (reformed and missional) focus that Mark expounds upon here.