THE ONE YEAR OPINION CLUB

Have you fought with a cop lately or wrestled with him? What do you mean no? Isn't this normal? The issue is that Michael Brown was gunned down, well for sure that’s an issue, but can we also say a teen wrestling, fighting with an Officer of the Law is also an issue? I will check with my son when I get home tonight, before speaking out of turn, but I’m pretty sure he has not recently wrestled a Police Officer for his gun, at least not recently. And if I come to find out he has I definitely will ask him, “and what were you going to do once you wrestled the gun from the officer?” And if my son hasn’t wrestled a Police Officer for his gun recently (or ever) than I will ask my friends if they can ask their sons, because this is “normal American” “normal descent kids, good kids, like Michael Brown, wrestling Cops for their guns, this is what decent kids do, according to the media and the town of, oh what’s the name of that town in Missouri, oh I know, it’s the town I don’t want to...

Everyone wants to “chime in” on what we can learn from Mark Driscoll’s resignation from Mars Hill Church in Settle, Wa.  “What we can learn” is the common headline. Well, if we’ve learned anything, is you will never bring the big man down. In the end, Mars Hill Church is the one that has suffered and all they were really trying to do, was right. I’m sure in the mix, as always, there was some mixed motives, but by and large, Mark Driscoll was acting in an unbecoming way towards his congregation. He was not above-reproach to those outside the church and he had greatly compromised in integrity to embellish the sales of his book so it could be on the New York Times Best seller list.  Clearly this is a man who has issues (yes we all have issues) but issues that would disqualify him from Pastoring or at least call upon some disciplinary actions.  Isn’t that what The Board of Elders is there for? Isn’t that why Churches have Church Counsels, to help keep honest men….h...