Defective Leaders

Reflections on Mark Driscoll and the Church from Desiring God on Vimeo.

John Piper hits it out of the park with a truly Jesus view on the problems faced when Christian's and christian leaders fail. In this video he is answering a specific question retaliated to people walking away from church because of the failures of well know leaders Mark Driscoll from Mars Hill, Seattle.

• There is no church that I like everything about..including my own.
• It (Mark Driscoll) is not a unique situation, in history or in our day, Christians are failing, lay people and pastors everyday and bringing reproach on the gospel.
• Who has not let Jesus down.
• Historically God has been willing to use people to speak Gospel truth who have motives that are defective.
• Gos is unbelievably merciful to use you and I to speak Gospel truth with our defects.
• You have to have a category for gospel faithfulness in defective containers.
• Don't throw the baby of truth out with the bathwater of sin.
• To walk away from Jesus because Jesus representatives are failures is to make an absurd choice, Jesus is our only hope.
• Jesus is the one person in the universe who has no defects, he has no failures.
• As I look over history God must be the kind of general who looks over his army that willing accepts tactical defeats for strategic victories.
• The general is not out of control!
• If you walk away from the church you are walking away from church.
• To say that I love Jesus and not submit to his word is a lie. Jesus founded the church I didn't
• The choice of Jesus over the church implies a choice of your opinion over the Bible...because the Jesus of the Bible is the Jesus of the church.

Very wise words from Rev Piper!