Mark Driscoll's chronological snobbery*

I like Mark Driscoll. It's amazing what God has been able to accomplish through the ministry of Mars Hill Church and Acts29. I really appreciate his stalwart defense of the substitutionary atonement as central to the gospel. But I start to get worried when pastors begin appearing like rock stars all over the national media. CNN, Nightline, The New York Times...he's everywhere lately. Recently Pastor Mark chimed in to claim the victory of "New Calvinism" (meaning us) versus the narrow-minded, fearful "Old Calvinism" of yesteryear. There's a kernel of truth within Driscoll's broadside, but it's obscured by his confusing and overly broad characterizations.

Pastor James Grant explains @ In Light of the Gospel


*C.S. Lewis wrote that chronological snobbery is "the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that count discredited...every age has its own outlook. It is especially good at seeing certain truths and especially liable to make certain mistakes." (Surprised by Joy)