He replied to him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” Pointing to his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
“But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. The greatest among you will be your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
Forgive me for chaining these together to form a pattern and maybe seeming to do violence to the text. But when I think of these passages together, it seems to me that in this new society we’re given by the Lord, we’re provided mothers, brothers, and sisters, but intentionally not fathers. We are to have one Father.
The implication to me is that all these “father figures” are not provided to us by the Lord, but are usurpers. Instead, as men, we have been provided to the Body as brothers, not fathers.
Driscoll is the symptom (and result) of an agreement between the Dominator and the Dominated.
I thought the guy was a jerkface when I first heard that ‘God hates you’ quote, but when we really reflect about, we have to remember that he’s a guy who has his good points and his bad points, like anyone else, and though some of what he may say if off-kilter, that doesn’t mean everything he has to say is.
The bigger the better.