Mark Driscoll from Mars Hill Church in Seattle talks about what pastors fear. 

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About Mark Driscoll

Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church is one of the world’s most downloaded and quoted pastors. His audience—fans and critics alike—spans the theological and cultural left and right.

Driscoll was baptized and raised Catholic, serving as an altar boy for a few years while attending Catholic school. In his teen years, he stopped going to church and had little to no interest in spiritual things. At age nineteen, while in college, Driscoll had a life-changing experience reading the book of Romans in the Bible and he became a Christian. Shortly thereafter, God spoke audibly to him while at a men’s retreat for a church, telling him to marry Grace (his girlfriend since age seventeen), preach the Bible, train men, and plant churches. And that’s precisely what he’s been doing ever since.

In 1996, at the age of twenty-five, Pastor Mark and his wife, Grace, started a small Bible study in their home in Seattle, which at the time was one of America’s least-churched cities. Since that time, the church has exploded, with upwards of thirteen thousand people meeting on Sundays across ten locations with two dozen total services in two states (Washington and New Mexico). Mars Hill has been recognized as the sixty-fifth largest, fortieth fastest-growing, and second most innovative church in America by Outreach magazine.

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