Mark Driscoll has a new book out called “Vintage Jesus.” It is a theology book, but don’t let that scare you. It is also a Mark Driscoll book! If you’re not familiar with Mark, he is the pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle. He started the church about 10 years ago in his living room and it has grown to some 5000 members. This is in the most unchurched city in America. His church is also full of 20 and 30 somethings that come out of the emergent, urban culture.

His church however, is not “emergent.” He was for a while associated with the Emergent Movement because of his outreach to the youth culture, but he has since distanced himself from them. He did so because he is strongly biblical and Reformed in his theology. He is one of the leaders of the Gospel Coalition, along with John Piper, Timothy Keller, and D.A. Carson. Having said that, he is not for the genteel crowd. Some say he pushes the envelope a bit too far, but I think he has a lot of good to say.

This is what the great, Anglican theologian J. I. Packer has to say about the new book “Vintage Jesus”

This book reveals Mark Driscoll as a highly powerful, colorful, down-to-earth catechist, targeting teens and twenty-somethings with the old, old story told in modern street-cred style.

Nothing like hearing Dr. Packer use the term “street-cred!” So with his recommendation, I pass it on to you.

For an introduction to Mark, check out this video about church-planting:

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