Friday, March 15, 2013

Mark Driscoll, Carl Trueman and the Pope walk into a bar...

...someone is going to have to explain every part of this to me:


11 comments:

Michael Coughlin said...

Please contact me when you have an explanation.

FX Turk said...

It's the Seattle version of "here I am Lord, Send Me."

Seattle by way of Rome, of course.

Tom Chantry said...

For starters, @CarlTruemanSpeaks ain't Carl Trueman.

Michael Coughlin said...

A priest, a rabbi and a pastor walk into a bar. Suddenly, the priest stops the rabbi and says, "Hey, is this some kind of joke?"

Elaine Bittencourt said...

Thank you Tom Chandry for the clarification! I did not know it was not the real Trueman. =)

Anonymous said...

Driscoll has a man crush on the pope?

trogdor said...

1) As said, not the real Truman, just someone who thinks his wisdom and quotable quotables need to be disseminated via additional media. Possibly he's re-tweeting that because he thinks Trueman would hold it up as an example of things he's been warning about, such as celebrity pastors and empty-headed ecumenism.

2) It's also possible that it's just retweeted because it's Driscoll, and he could fart into a speech-to-text iPhone, tweet it, and it would get 35,000 retweets and 26,000 favorites. He may also have a new book out, although oddly nobody seems to mention that.

3) As to what the tweet from the pope means, maybe it's an expression of humility. You know, from a guy who claims final authority over the eternal state of countless souls, who pretends he can command Christ to be re-sacrificed at his whim, and who imagines his words to be authoritative over the word of God.

4) As to why Driscoll would retweet something like that - because the pope has a bigger church, so he's obviously fruitful, and Driscoll may be able to learn something from him. Duh.

DJP said...

Well... now that you explain it, it's so obvious.

Herding Grasshoppers said...

Oh yah... Trogdor, you rock.

Susan said...

LOL on #4, Trogdor.

Robert said...

Trogdor,

You've now shown us who can make the list for ER3, should i ever happen. Maybe they can get the current prophet for the LDS, too.