The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill

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This whole story tells me how my generation was influenced, and influenced how the church and evangelicals, especially now, behave… GenXers were big in the church movement in the 90’s and early 2000’s, but from what we got and were bored of, narcissism gains extremely fertile ground. Our parents parents though they were the best generation and the boomers started to think mega movement bringing up super blah churches. And then, we were sick of the annoying church attitudes, so we pushed back with a vengeance building churches centered around ourselves and not the gospel. That may seem convoluted, but look at the progression. Grandparents being told they were the greatest, beginning of narcissism. Their children working to catch up to their parents and going big with big egos, next phase in narcissistic behaviors. Then my generation having been fed all this narcissistic fuel, and firebrands like Driscoll coming out and creating easily followed, easily manipulated communities with their need for supply that their parents never gave them. We created so much chaos with being fed up with our parents annoying church attitudes.

While I can see where they get their thoughts, the language used (ex. Boomers) and the way CT blogged about Driscoll in such negative light without doing the biblical thing which is approaching privately first, gives me pause to believe the story. It feels slanted and defamatory instead of truthful.