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It’s tempting to believe that the Christian faith is alive and well in our country today. Our politicians talk about God. Our mega-churches are filled. Christian schools dot our landscape. Brace yourself. It’s an illusion. Believe it or not, only 8 percent of Americans profess and practice true evangelical Christian faith. There are more left-handed people than evangelical Christians in America.
In this book, Mark Driscoll delivers a wake-up call for every believer: We are living in a post-Christian culture―a culture fundamentally at odds with faith in Jesus. This is good and bad news. The good news is that God is still working, redeeming people from this spiritual wasteland and inspiring a resurgence of faithful believers. The bad news is that many believers just don’t get it. They continue to gather exclusively into insular tribes, lobbing e-bombs at each other in cyberspace.
Mark’s book is a clarion call for Christians. It’s time to get to work. We can only do this if we unite around Jesus and the essentials found in his Word, while at the same time, appreciating the distinctives within each Christian tribe. Mark shows us how to do just that. This isn’t the time to wait or debate. Join the resurgence.
- Sales Rank: #651166 in Books
- Brand: Tyndale House Publishers
- Published on: 2013-11-05
- Released on: 2013-11-05
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.00" w x 5.75" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 336 pages
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About the Author
Pastor Mark Driscoll is the founding pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington and is one of the world's most-downloaded and quoted pastors. His audience--fans and critics alike--spans the theological and cultural left and right. He was also named one of the "25 Most Influential Pastors of the Past 25 Years" by Preaching magazine, and his sermons are consistently #1 on iTunes each week for Religion & Spirituality with over 10 million of downloads each year.
Pastor Mark received a B.A. in Speech Communication from the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University, and he holds a masters degree in Exegetical Theology from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of fifteen books.
In 1996, at the age of twenty-five, Pastor Mark and his wife, Grace, with the vision to make disciples of Jesus and plant churches, started a small Bible study at their home in Seattle, which at the time was the least churched city in America. Since that time, by God's grace, the church has exploded with upwards of nineteen thousand people meeting across thirteen locations in four states (Washington, Oregon, California, and New Mexico). Mars Hill has been recognized as the 54th largest, 30th fastest-growing, and 2nd most-innovative church in America by Outreach magazine.
Pastor Mark is the co-founder of the Acts 29 Network, which has planted over 400 churches in the US, in addition to thirteen other nations. He founded the Resurgence, which receives close to six million visits annually and services Christian leaders through books, blogs, conferences, and classes. And he is co-founder of Churches Helping Churches with Pastor James MacDonald, which raised over $2.7 million to help rebuild churches in Haiti and empower them minister and provide aide to the Haitian community, and helped deliver $1.7 million in medical supplies to the devastated country.
With a skillful mix of bold presentation, clear biblical teaching, and compassion for those who are hurting the most--in particular, women who are victims of sexual and physical abuse and assault--Driscoll has taken biblical Christianity into cultural corners previously unexplored by evangelicals. In the same year that he spoke at a Gospel Coalition conference with notable contemporary theologians like John Piper and Tim Keller, he also discussed biblical sexuality as a guest on Loveline with Dr. Drew, was featured on Nightline, and preached for Rick Warren at Saddleback Community Church.
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46 of 51 people found the following review helpful.
A Heartfelt Plea for Evangelical Cooperation
By George P. Wood
I do not often read Mark Driscoll. I am neither a Calvinist nor a complementarian, as he is; and I don't appreciate his occasionally bombastic statements. But when a copy of his new book showed up in my mail box, I decided to give it a read.
A Call to Resurgence is a heartfelt plea to America's warring evangelical tribes to stop fighting about issues on which they disagree and to start uniting around issues on which they agree. Or rather, he encourages them to stop letting secondary doctrinal disputes get in the way of their primary evangelical mission. Those secondary doctrinal disputes include the debates between Calvinists and Arminians, between complementarians and evangelicals, between continuationists and cessationists, and between what he calls "missional" and "fundamental"--which is largely a debate about missiological strategy.
The reason for this heartfelt plea is twofold: First, one can be an evangelical Christian and belong to a mix-and-match of theological tribes. (Driscoll describes himself as Calvinist, complementarian, continuationist, and missional.) Second, North American culture is changing rapidly, and evangelical tribes need to stick together, both for survival and for mission.
A Call to Resurgence is a good book, though not a great one. I admire Driscoll as a church planter who has sown the seeds of the gospel in the very hard spiritual ground of Seattle, Washington. Though I am an Arminian, egalitarian, Pentecostal personally, I recognize Driscoll as a fellow evangelical and colaborer in the gospel. I found his social analysis and historical understanding to be a bit thin. But--and this is more important--his heart is in the right place. Evangelical Christians of various stripes shouldn't necessarily dispense with their doctrinal distinctives, but they strive for unity, emphasizing their agreements (which are central) over their disagreements (which are peripheral).
In the Great Awakening, John and Charles Wesley worked with George Whitefield in planting and watering the seeds of the gospel, and God made those seeds grow. As I read it, A Call to Resurgence is a plea for similar cooperation today. How can we who disagree with Driscoll not agree with his request, and this despite our disagreements?
32 of 39 people found the following review helpful.
Time for a Resurgence
By BattleBornNV
Great books are written and only few people take the time to read it. Not only read it, but critically think about it and review it. Some read the book and immediately put pen to paper and start casting a review either positive or negative, others read the book, put it down, think about it, read sections over and really dive into the mindset of the author, and finally write a review.
It has been over a week and a half since I finished Mark Driscoll’s newest book, A Call to Resurgence, and I must say that my opinion has changed since I have gone back and reviewed sections more than once. Up front my initial reaction was wow; he is tackling A LOT of different issues and must be ready for a whirlwind of controversy outside and inside of “Christian” communities/tribes. After my gut reaction I started to read deeper into what he is actually saying. Driscoll is calling out the Christians to unite on the main point, Jesus. The main point is for us to point to the main point.
Over the last six or seven years, I have learned from Pastor Mark and various ministries that is a part of. I respect what he has to say on different subjects and was eager to read this book. “In this book, Mark Driscoll delivers a wake-up call for every believer: We are living in a post-Christian culture—a culture fundamentally at odds with faith in Jesus. This is good and bad news. The good news is that God is still working, redeeming people from this spiritual wasteland and inspiring a resurgence of faithful believers. The bad news is that many believers just don’t get it. They continue to gather exclusively into insular tribes, lobbing e-bombs at each other in cyberspace.”
This book is divided and organized into seven chapters. Each chapter is weighty and could one day be expanded into a book of its own (Driscoll gives recommended reading for each subject at the end of the book in an appendix).
• Chapter 1 is about how Christianity is dying in America and how we are no longer a strong faith filled country. “Instead of holding to an evangelical faith, many in America possess a “borrowed faith” or “civil religion,” devoid of true repentance, committed love for God, or any evidence of a godly life.”
• A great quote from Chapter 2: “Following Christendom’s funeral, where is our culture today? Outside of evangelicalism the predominant culture is now pluralism. There is no one dominant cultural ideology or spirituality. It’s literally everythingism-… “When a man stops believing in God, he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes anything.”
• Chapter 3 Driscoll breaks the different Christian tribes down into categories: 1 Reformed or Arminian; 2. Complementarian or Egalitarian; 3. Continuationist or Cessationist; 4. Missional or Fundamental He not only describes each ‘tribe’ but he also lists individuals, churches, and organizations that fall within the various categories as well as their ‘leaders’.
• Chapter 4 is where Driscoll gives a call to action. It is time to be united and come together over the bascis and fundamental of the faith.
• Chapter 5 is a call for evangelicals to quit bickering over or neglecting the Holy Spirit, but instead pursue a Spirit-empowered ministry.
• Chapter 6 is about repentance of the items and issues discussed in chapter 2 and the importance of it.
• The book concludes with Chapter 7 and the Seven Principles for Resurgence. The ideas presented are my favorite part of this book and I agree that these principles are essential for the Church broadly to embrace in order to be at our best. The principals mentioned are: Preach the Word, Love the Church, Contend and Contextualize, Be Attractional and Missional, Receive, Reject, Redeem, Consider the Common Good, and Evangelize through Suffering.
I highly would recommend this book and suggest that if you read it, to slow down and re read the parts of the book that made you raise an eye brown or if you ear marked the book to highlight something. Before you post your initial reaction, think about it and then discuss it. This book will cause some to erupt in an uproar, and the media will react (as the media often does) in a negative way. Mark’s book is a clarion call for Christians. It’s time to get to work. We can only do this if we unite around Jesus and the essentials found in his Word, while at the same time, appreciating the distinctives within each Christian tribe. Mark shows us how to do just that. This isn’t the time to wait or debate. Join the resurgence.
An advance complimentary copy of this book was provided for review purposes by Tyndale Publishing in eBook format. I was not required to post a positive review and the views expressed in this review are my own.
This review was originally posted on BattleBornNV website.
29 of 37 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting, Entertaining, and Dangerously Flawed
By C. Dustin Boyd
Controversial Resurgence leader Mark Driscoll’s new book is intended to be “a clarion call for every believer.” Driscoll wants believers to realize that we “are living in a post-Christian culture,” and that this involves “good and bad news. The good news is that God is still working . . . the bad news is that many believers just don’t get it.”
Driscoll sets the stage in the first chapter by telling his readers that “Christendom is dead.” He follows up in chapters two and three by describing how Christendom died (“How We Got Our Bell Rung”) and what has taken it’s place (“A New Reality”). It is in chapter three that Driscoll introduces his take on what he calls Christian “tribalism,” which he calls the “predominant culture” of evangelicalism (p. 86). Driscoll offers a broad definition of evangelicalism (pp. 95-96) and then uses four questions (“Are you Reformed or Arminian?”, “Are you complementarian or egalitarian?”, “Are you continuationist or cessationist?”, and “Are you missional or fundamental?”) to help believers identify which tribe they are a part of. In chapter four, Driscoll attempts to help his readers relate to and cooperate with believers in other tribes. These tribes, he says, are like “regions” within the larger “nation” of evangelical Christianity (pp. 118-119), and Christians must learn to unite with believers from other tribes around the essentials of the faith (p. 121). He then details these essentials with thirteen theses on topics running the gamut from Theology proper to Christian stewardship (pp. 123-136). Chapter five is dedicated to the Holy Spirit. This chapter is largely devoted to arguing for Driscoll’s own chastened form of Charismatic theology (though he prefers the term “Spirit empowered,” p. 157). Chapter six is a call for believers to live and preach repentance in the face of mounting cultural pressure. The seventh and final chapter details “seven principles for resurgence.” These seven principles form the core of the “missional” brand of Christianity that Driscoll wants his readers to embrace. In addition there are two appendices. The first contains a broad historical overview of Christian renewal movements (starting with the Reformation). After concluding his overview of church history, Driscoll then draws out several principles for “missional resurgence” and offers “a word to tribal chiefs.” The second appendix consists of an annotated list of recommended books that deal with many of the topics covered earlier in the book in greater detail.
There’s a lot to like about this book. First of all, whatever one thinks about Driscoll’s methods or his (sometimes abrasive) manner, he clearly loves the gospel and wants to reach others with it. In a culture where many Christian leaders are so concerned with reaching the lost that they water down or replace the biblical gospel in order to gain a hearing, a straight-talking, biblically-faithful gospel preacher is a rare thing and a cause for rejoicing. Driscoll also sees the importance of theology and church history, and he does an admirable job of translating systematic and historical theology for the masses. He also attempts to strike a sound, biblical balance in several areas where many Christians are prone to excess in one direction or another (like Pneumatology and Missiology, for example). Though I think he fails as often as he succeeds, I appreciate the effort. Finally, to top it all off, the book is just simply well-written. It flows well, entertains, and packs a rhetorical punch.
However, though there is a lot to like about A Call to Resurgence, there is also much cause for concern.
First of all, there is Driscoll's defense of charismatic theology. While I recognize that continuationism is a legitimate option within Evangelical theology, that doesn't make it any less wrong. Driscoll's exegesis of the relevant texts (like 1 Corinthians 13:8-12 on p. 169, for example) is shallow, and his defense of tongues as a "private prayer language" (p. 165), while typical of continuationists, simply doesn't measure up to Scripture. Having said that, I applaud Driscoll for taking a more-balanced approach than others, even critiquing some forms of continuationist theology and practice (pp. 171-173). However, Driscoll's attempt to label this approach "Spirit empowered" is less than helpful and, frankly, offensive, as it suggests that those of us who disagree with his theology are less spiritual than him (he even accuses cessationists of "quenching the Spirit" on p. 169).
Another problem is the false dichotomy Driscoll has set up between "missional" Christianity and "fundamentalism" (pp. 108-110). Apparently, a fundamentalist is anyone who does church in a way that is more traditional (and I would argue, in many cases, more biblical) than Driscoll. Mark Dever and Kevin DeYoung are fundamentalists? Seriously? Though he lumps men like Dever and DeYoung in with fundamentalism (just like a theological liberal would), they don't even fit the definition that Driscoll himself offers on p. 109. Also, though I can agree in theory with much of what Driscoll writes here about being "missional," in practice it seems that being "missional" is often a cover for pragmatism and worldliness and leads to unbiblical ecclesiology and worship practices.
Most problematic is Driscoll's advocacy of an unbiblical form of ecumenism that prizes unity over truth. Driscoll downplays important doctrinal distinctions in order to embrace false teachers (like Joyce Meyer, T. D. Jakes, and Joel Osteen, see pp. 83-86, 100), declaring them to be within the pale of orthodoxy. His advocacy of these charlatans as fellow evangelicals is more than just disheartening—it is disturbing, even sickening—and it should be enough to disqualify Driscoll from church leadership. Though, that will never happen, as Driscoll is seemingly accountable to no one but himself.
Which brings me to my final criticism: Driscoll's apostolic self-understanding. Apparently, Driscoll believes there is an office in the church higher than that of the pastor. It seems that these super-pastors, which he labels "tribal chiefs" (of which he is one, of course) are basically modern-day apostles. Near the end of Appendix A, it becomes clear that Driscoll sees himself as a "pastor-plus," one with "apostolic ministry responsibility" (p. 292). It seems that, in his mind at least, Driscoll is writing as one apostle to others hoping to influence these other modern-day apostles so that they will then lead us mere mortals to follow the path to resurgence that he has laid out for us. If this sounds reminiscent of the heretical claims of the New Apostolic Reformation (C. Peter Wagner and his ilk) that's probably because it is. The difference is that it has now been dressed up to look more orthodox. This is disturbing to say the least.
Though Driscoll gets the gospel right and keeps it at the center, on several secondary issues, I fear that he is dangerously wrong. These doctrines, though not primary, are still important, and embracing false teachings in these areas will have consequences. I fear that, for many who follow Driscoll (and perhaps Driscoll himself), those consequences will be spiritually damaging. There is much anecdotal evidence that suggests they already have been. Having said that, I enjoyed this book. I really did. Unfortunately, however, I cannot recommend it without serious qualifications.
I was provided by the publisher with a free copy of this book in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.
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