Mark Driscoll Almost Had a Point

Driscoll sensed something was off at Greater Christian Men's Conference. He just couldn't ID it.

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Look. If you invite Mark Driscoll to your function, you get what you deserve. Anybody at the Greater Christian Men’s Conference (or, as Rick Pidcock put it: the Mojo Dojo Casa Church) who was surprised when Mark Driscoll went out of pocket needs their head examined. He’s Mark Driscoll! Going out of pocket is his whole deal. 

The Greater Christian Men’s Conference (lmao) is in every way a pro wrestling event, and Driscoll is proudly the heel. The heel is the bad guy. Your Rick Flairs and Randy Ortons. These are the guys you bring out to piss the crowd off. Boos from the crowd? That’s just wind in the heel’s sails. The heel loves negative attention. They’re rewarded for it.

That’s how Driscoll’s career works. The man has been falling upward my entire adult life. In the upside down world of Christian men power plays (what Katelyn Beaty calls the Evangelical Bro Code), every single attempt to make Driscoll suffer some sort of consequence for his bad behavior is really just cancel culture trying to bring down a Godly Heel for speaking tough truths. So they protect him from consequences and elevate him to an even higher level of authority and he just keeps doing the same bullshit because it’s worked out beautifully for him. Why wouldn’t Driscoll keep being a heel? It’s made him a millionaire!

So, yeah, Mark Driscoll is a heel. Heels are haters. And haters are gonna hate. 

But haters are also gonna make a point sometimes. Or, they’re going to almost make a point. They’re going to be in the orbit of a point.

You do not have to hand it to Mark Driscoll, but I think he came within striking distance of sensing something true this week. I’ll start by recapping the past couple days of Mojo Dojo Casa Church culture for those who haven’t heard what went down. Buckle up, because it is a wild ride.