Mark driscoll is at it again. This time pontificating on the recent scandal around ted haggard, he suggests that one of the reasons poele like haggard does this stuff is their wives “let themselves go” here’s a quote.
Most pastors I know do not have satisfying, free, sexual conversations and liberties with their wives. At the risk of being even more widely despised than I currently am, I will lean over the plate and take one for the team on this. It is not uncommon to meet pastors’ wives who really let themselves go; they sometimes feel that because their husband is a pastor, he is therefore trapped into fidelity, which gives them cause for laziness. A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband’s sin, but she may not be helping him either.
I’m beginning to think that either Driscoll has lost the capacity to think before he talks or he thinks he is so golden that he can say stuff like this without impunity.
Read the entire post for yourself here
another take at huffington post
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Are you kidding me? Comments like this can only serve to make things worse. Driscoll should read the James ch. 3 and figure out how to tame his own tongue. <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=66&chapter=3&version=31&context=chapter">James 3</a>
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hey bro! be fair that is but ONE comment on what I thought was a very wise & helpful post
I did not take Driscoll’s comment as insensitive. It was not aimed at anyone in particular (Mrs. Haggard), as it was in a long list of several issues, but he was pointing out something that could very well be a problem in some marriages. Sometimes I wish people would give HIM a break.
I can’t say I agree with him – the man needs to take personal responsibility for what he does and where he puts his member. I’d expect better of Driscoll than to try and sheet home the blame to someone else. I make a rule that I don’t comment on any woman’s appearance but I saw a picture of Haggard’s wife and thought the following: 1. She looked as though she’d been to hell and back in the last 24 hours. 2. You could hardly accuse her of "letting herself go". There is a kernel of truth in what he says – a wife that doesn’t cherish her husband can push him closer to the wolves of temptation. But then I wonder how many wives have had to play second fiddle’s to the pastor’s ambition and kingdom building and haven’t been honoured as we’re biblically exhorted as husbands to do?
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Billy,
Based on Driscoll’s comment about Padgitt and McLaren in relationship to their view on homosexuality and this I find it hard to attribute wisdom to his comments.
see James 3:13-14
Andre
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