Predictably, the lessons drawn from Christianity Today’s “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill” vary according to the biases of the listener. Some of those ‘deconstructing’ see the Mars Hill saga as increasing conformation of the wholesale bankruptcy of evangelical theology. Others, particularly those quick to note the early criticisms of Driscoll by figures like John Macarthur, suggest that the lessons to be learned from Mars Hill have little to do with Driscoll’s evangelical and complementarian theology, but concern his pugnacious and crass speech and leadership. For those in the former camp, Mars Hill’s fall is an indictment of its conservative evangelical theology. For those in the latter, it concerns less a theological flaw and more a failure of practical reasoning or application.
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