YouTube has a copy of a video of Mark Driscoll that originates from the Desiring God website. (I link both, as the former link may very well be around longer than the latter. But, if you get a chance, scurry over to the DG site on your Peggy Cass legs and see the other videos — lots of them.)
He talks about his philosophy of ministry in a very unchurched city. The closing sentences are priceless (empasis mine):
When [missionary] Hudson Taylor shows up in China, and dresses in Chinese dress, and learns Chinese language, and eats Chinese food, and gets a Chinese haircut, everybody says, “These’s a good Christian.” When we do that in punk rock culture, people think it’s capitulation. I think there’s hypocrisy there. That’s why we’re not reaching Americans. We have a double-standard that we get stuck on the style and we forget the substance of the Gospel.
How is this not hideously obvious?
HT to Chris at Fishing the Abyss for the video link.
(50 points to whomever gets the “Peggy Cass legs” reference first.)
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