Mark Driscoll v. The Emergent Movement
Nathanael Berends October 5th, 2007
Mark had written several articles for secular magazines and had been interviewed a few times on the radio and had gotten this reputation as a pastor who said cusswords. It is true that Mark said alot of cusswords. I don’t know why he did it. He hadn’t become a Christian until he was in college, so maybe he didn’t know he wasn’t supposed to say cusswords and be a pastor.
(Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz)
I read this book and excerpt nearly two years ago and I unwittingly sat through an entire service of Mark, The Cussing Pastor, without making the connection. Miller actually speaks quite well of Mark, and says that his church represented the first time in years that a church made him feel like he could breathe, but this wasn’t my experience.