Quotes from Mark Driscoll

Gentleman, it is a terrifying thing for a woman to trust a sinful man.

God picked a junior high girl [to be Jesus' mother]. Jesus was raised by a woman who today, we wouldn't even let her lead a bible study at a high school. But she could raise God.

Past: Jesus saved us from the penalty of sin. Present: He saves us from the power of sin. Future: He will save us from the presence of sin.

Tragically, we live in a day when offense to God doesn't matter nearly as much as offense to others.

Everything may not be OK but if God is with you, you will be OK.

Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar because He's the One Who says we also need human friends.

God is tolerant in that He asks everyone to repent.

We don't name God; God reveals His name to us. We don't have the right to exercise authority over God. God copyrights, He trademarks, He patents His name.

Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

This world needs more than good works. It needs good news. Good works come out of the good news.

Tribes must be our homes, not our prisons.

I study the Bible all week, pray to the Lord, and then I speak from my heart. It's all about brutal honesty.

Sometimes prayer moves the hand of God, and sometimes prayer changes the heart of the person who is praying.

Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.

Worship is living our life individually and corporately as continuous living sacrifices to the glory of a person or thing.

The only thing worse than dying is living a boring life.

Sin is not just action. It's life direction.

Truthless times need timeless truths.

There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.

It is imperative that Christians be like Jesus, by living freely within the culture as missionaries who are as faithful to the Father and His gospel as Jesus was in His own time and place.

But birth control can also be compelled by sinful motivations. These can include putting lesser priorities like career above higher priorities like family or greedily wanting to make as much income as possible to the exclusion of everything else, and not incur the costs of child raising; being selfish and not wanting to have to care for a child; or immaturely not wanting to take on the responsibility that good parenting requires.

My pregnant wife came home with her previously long hair that I loved chopped off and replaced with a short, mommish haircut. She asked what I thought and could tell by my face. She had put a mom's need for convenience before being a wife. She wept.

When sins become civil rights, there is a temptation for Christians to keep our mouths shut and turn what is supposed to be a public faith into a private faith, but we are commanded to not be ashamed of the gospel.

Practically speaking, we were created to live all of life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, by the Word of God, to the glory of God. We were created to live all of life before the face of God, knowing that nothing in our life is secular or separated from the sight of God because all of life is sacred. To live otherwise is sacrilege