Reported by Liku Zelleke
In a case of foot-in-mouth, or keyboard-in-mouth to be precise, Mars Hill Church pastor Mark Driscoll has written a letter of apology to his congregation in which he apologized for comments he made in an online discussion forum back in 2000 and 2001.
The collection of posts in Mars Hill’s “Midrash” forum was written under Driscoll’s handle, “William Wallace II”. He had posted what has been reported to be “blunt and emotional” comments that were critical of feminism and “sensitive emasculated” men among other things.
But, what have many people riled-up are his comments about women – whom he refers to as “p*nis homes” – and their sexual relationship with men. A few sample posts:
“The first thing to know about your p*nis is that despite the way it may see, it is not your p*nis. Ultimately, God created you and it is his p*nis. You are simply borrowing it for a while.
While His p*nis is on loan you must admit that it is sort of just hanging out there very lonely as if it needed a home, sort of like a man wondering the streets looking for a house to live in. Knowing that His p*nis would need a home, God created a woman to be your wife and when you marry her and look down you will notice that your wife is shaped differently than you and makes a very nice home.“
Driscoll then goes on to preach about how men should handle their situations should they find themselves single or “homeless”:
“Therefore, if you are single you must remember that your p*nis is homeless and needs a home. But, though you may believe your hand is shaped like a home, it is not. And, though women other than your wife may look like a home, to rest there would be breaking into another man’s home. And, if you look at a man it is quite obvious that what a homeless man does not need is another man without a home.“
In his apology Driscoll noted that in his 2006 book he had used the forum posts as examples of something that he regretted and as examples of “a wrong I learned from.”
Driscoll told his congregation, “The content of my postings to that discussion board does not reflect how I feel, or how I would conduct myself today. Over the past 14 years I have changed, and by God’s grace, hope to continue to change. I also hope people I have offended and disappointed will forgive me.”
