Dear Harlot Today

Dear,
Christianity Today

Mark Driscoll, from 2015... He just about rebuilds his life, and you do this hit piece on him?

Love him or hate him, he preached the Gospel. If you were at all honest, you'd know the reason Mars Hill fell---and Mark Driscoll was under investigation---was for pre-buying copies of his books, which propelled his one to the New York Times Best Seller. It had nothing to do with his "Spiritual Abuse" or the way he ran the church. I followed this, the whole way through, because Driscoll was a pastor who influenced me.

While he was unorthodox, and he had sermons on sex, it's what the kids needed to hear. They needed an edgy message, as it's the only way to get kids right with God in their sexuality. And you making this hit piece is only damaging the faith. You're celebrating Atheists getting elected as the head chaplain at Harvard, but you're attacking a Godly man like Mark Driscoll?

The truth is, he made a mistake. He ought not have bought his book to trick the New York Times Best Seller's list. It's not something altogether unheard of, and he's not the only one who's done it. But, it's still a fact that that's why he was under investigation by the ethics committee. Now, you set out a hit piece, attacking a godly preacher. He may have cussed, but so did your interviewees. While cussing is a sin, Christians aren’t perfect. 

This is a miscarriage of journalistic privilege. You’ve done an assassination piece on a man doing his best. He was a young preacher, but it just goes to show the proverb, “The world will hate you.” You, you are the world.

From,
B. K. Neifert