Driscoll challenges the Sydney Anglicans

In a Sydney cathedral packed with 800 clergy Mark Driscoll has served up some great advice to the Sydney evangelical Anglicans on evangelism, church planting and movements.

Surprisingly Mark, who is normally quite meek and mild, doesn’t pull his punches as he lays out five ways the diocese has gone off track.

Full credit to the Sydney Anglicans for inviting Mark’s input and the courage to publish. I wonder if there are any other Australian dioceses or denominations willing to do the same? I wonder what Mark would have said to them?

A key to ongoing renewal is to confront the brutal facts in the context of hope. There are other Australian denominations that are in the terminal phase of their decline and they don’t want to know about it. The Sydney diocese has a great future if it maintains a commitment to continually reinvent itself for the sake of the unchanging Gospel.

Students of movement dynamics will want to read Natasha Percy’s excellent summary of Mark Driscoll’s message.

Looking forward to Mark’s next visit downunder. When are you bringing him back?

By: Steve | 09/05/08 | Church planting - Church planting movements | Trackback | Comments [RSS 2.0]

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Mikey Lynch

Comment by Mikey Lynch | 09/06/08 at 8:39 am

Thanks very much for posting about this. It is very encouraging that the Syd Angs have invited such a robust critique. I’m sure they’ll do plenty of analysis of Driscoll’s critique in the coming weeks and some will dismiss some of it. But I am also confident that the majority will hear the burden of what Driscoll is speaking about and do their best to take it on board.

The really exciting thing is to think of what the younger people who are hearing Driscoll’s oracle will do. In that sense, his message is a call and a giving of permission to a new generation.

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[...] working for NCLS) went along to hear Driscoll speak when he was around in Australia last week, and Steve Addison has linked off to an article the Sydney Anglicans have put together about Mark’s main points. [...]