The Internet Monk posted about an ongoing kerfuffle regarding a popular and controversial Evangelical pastor named Mark Driscoll. Should the “elders” of his church be calling him into account and repentance for various edgy sermons he has apparently given?
One problem seems to be that Mr. Driscoll’s “elders” are men he himself has chosen (this is based on the comments made on the Internet Monk’s site), but even if they weren’t chosen by him, he is the most popular by far over any of them; if he were to be called into account by them and didn’t want to submit to them, what would stop him from just leaving and taking his enormous following with him to another “church” of his own where he was the elder?
This situation is another manifestation of the problem of “obeying church elders” in Protestant communities that I blogged about previously.
