Mars Hill Church in Seattle just launched an interesting addition to their site. You can ask Pastor Mark Driscoll anything and vote on what other questions you want him to answer (sort of in digg style).
[Update on 10/3/2007] : Looks like I stumbled upon the Ask Anything site before it was supposed to be public knowledge and they are still working out the bugs. So I’ve removed the link but I’ll post again when they let me know the site is ready.
[Update on 10/14/2007]: According to Sam Barrett, tt looks like the Ask Anything site is now live.
This and Piper’s “Ask Pastor John” podcasts (http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/AskPastorJohn/), I think, address the same issue that a lot of pastors seem inaccessible and unwilling to answer the hard/difficult questions. We’ll have to see how Pastor Mark Driscoll responds.
October 2, 2007 at 11:04 am
Just to let you know, this idea received a very favorable reaction from my dad in staff meeting today. He said he could wrap his mind around this concept better than the “blog your random thoughts” mentality. His example for that mindset was this: “I almost hit a squirrel on the way to work today, and that reminded me of God’s wonderful creation, and it also made me wonder if squirrels have souls, and I’m so thankful for how God created me . . . ” You can tell what he thinks of that approach:-)