That's Quotable: Mark Driscoll

Absolutely hilarious quote from Mark Driscoll's latest work, Vintage Jesus:

"The Jesus I was told about could easily have passed for one of the kids in the ghetto daycares near my house who were pumped so full of NyQuil they would sit quietly and drool on themselves while watching cartoons until their moms came to pick them up after work...

Worse still, this weird Jesus seemed to really like sheep. I never saw a picture of him with a baseball glove or with other kids, but I did see him with a lot of sheep. Sometimes they even made us glue cotton balls to construction paper in an effort to make our own sheep so that we could apparently be as weird as Jesus. In short, Jesus seemed freakish, definitely not the kind of guy you'd want on your baseball team because he'd never have the guts to slide hard into second to break up a double play or throw inside to a batter to back him off the plate. Rather, he'd prefer to pick flowers in the outfield and daydream about fluffy sheep while praying for his enemies and keeping his emotions under control."

I randomly thought of this quote today during a meeting and laughed out loud. Driscoll's talking about how Jesus is often portrayed as exclusively meek, mild, and timid when in fact, He was very bold and passionate.

This book is an absolute must read. I am about halfway finished, have made tons of notes, and will definitely be walking through it with some friends who are not Jesus-followers, but are definitely curious.

Can't wait to see their reaction when they read quotes like this one! :-)

Comments

[Terrace Crawford]

That is hilarious. I'll have to give it a read, for sure. He is so right. Sometimes our views of Jesus Christ is SO far off. I'm sure he laughs out loud (and probably cries too) sometimes at us.

BTW, I sometimes laugh out loud (@ inappropiate times) in meetings when I think of random things like this. I know people think I'm crazy.

[jason salamun]

I love that quote. IMO- this is one of the best books on Jesus ever. Glad you're digging it.

Oh, and now I know why you laugh randomly when we connect. All this time I thought I was a funny guy...

[Pete Wilson]

That is an awesome quote Jay.

[jay hardwick]

@terrace :: you mean you randomly laugh otu loud when you talk to jason salamun, too?! wow...must be an epidemic...:-)

@jason :: i'm really glad that a great friend gave it to me...who knows how far that small investment will go as i share it with sojourners all around me. and, you are a funny guy...

@pete :: you're the video master...surely you can find a video of a bunch of kids making cottonball sheep and post it on your blog and get 17000 comments from people sharing their wacky Sunday school stories. :-)