Mark Driscoll, Pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, has a hip, 21st century approach to leading a megachurch. Huffinington Post report that whiel " Driscoll and his congregation may come across as surprisingly liberal in some ways -- tattoos and nose rings are a common sight at Mars Hill -- their approach to Biblical teachings is less so. They rail against premarital sex, feminism, modern interpretations of the Bible, and viewing Jesus as 'a Richard Simmons, hippie, queer Christ... a neutered and limp-wristed popular Sky Fairy of pop culture that . . . would never talk about sin or send anyone to hell.' And they're not huge fans of homosexuality -- a fact not lost on a group of protestors that showed up to picket a satellite branch of Mars Hill in Portland earlier this week. But while a church having an anti-gay stance won't turn many heads, a new claim by Driscoll that masturbating can be a form of homosexuality might. More
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