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Religion Saves & 9 Other Misconceptions

So the voting’s done and Mark Driscoll’s sermon schedule at Mars Hill is set for the next few months.  The series title is this post’s title – “Religion Saves & 9 Other Misconceptions”.  You can see all the questions/voting/comments/hoopla that went down over the last few months here.  What basically happened was people from all over the world submitted questions for Driscoll to preach on.  That got narrowed down through a voting process to the following 9 questions (from 893 total).

Check it out – should be pretty intense:

• 1/6 – #9 – There’s no doubt the Bible says children are a blessing, but the Bible doesn’t seem to address the specific topic of birth control. Is this a black and white topic, or does it fall under liberties?
• 1/13 – #8 – Why do you make jokes about mormon missionaries, homosexuals, trenchcoats wearers, single men, vegans, emo kids and then expect these groups to come to know God in the same sermon?
• 1/20 – #7 – Why does an all loving, all knowing, and all sovereign God will into creation people He foreknows will suffer eternal condemnation? Why does Romans 9:20 feel like a cop-out answer?
• 1/27 – #6 – Of all the things you teach, what parts of Christianity do you still wrestle with? What’s hardest for you to believe?
• 2/3 – #5 – How should Christian men and women go about breaking free from the bondage of sexual sin?
• 2/10 – #4 – If salvation is by faith alone, then why are there so many verses that imply works?
• 2/17 – #3 – How does a Christian date righteously; and what are the physical, emotional, and mentally connecting boundaries a Christian must set while developing an intimate relationship prior to marriage?
• 2/24 – #2 – What can traditional/established churches learn from “emerging” churches?
• 3/2 – #1 – Do you believe that the Scripture not only regulates our theology but also our methodology? In other words, do you believe in the regulative principle? If so, to what degree?

I’m looking forward to many of these.  #9 should be very interesting and insanely controversial.  #8 is personally interesting to me as I contemplate the place of humor in preaching.  #3 might just be the most needed out of all these.  And #2 and #1 have to do with church methodology and practice, which is also very interesting and useful for me…

-Ben