Driscoll: A picture worth a thousand words...

Mark Driscoll has a new series of books coming out: A Book You'll Actually Read. Looks like they are meant to be short primers. The first on the OT, the second on the NT, the 3rd on Who is God and the 4th on church leadership. 

The website has a nice flash-animated graphic to intro each book. 

Notice the graphic they chose to illustrate "On Who is God." 

Nice...

 

It's not just the hippies who want to make God over in their own image, yeah? 

Comments

[Virgil]

Tomorrow, scattered lightning and judgment; Calvinists please stay inside.

[andy]

hey man...
i reposted this whole thing at my blog. hope that you don't mind me hiding behind your words...

good stuff

[Ted S.]

What image is being portrayed?

http://www.youtube.com/user/ReallySad1

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[Jonathan]

I'm thinking that you're reading a little too much into it.

[Mark]

I like the "head wound harry" sheep icon !

[Jon]

Bob, I have to disagree with you. The symbol chosen is not a lightening bolt. It's a thunder cloud. (Though I'm not sure why you would make the association of lightening bolt to wrath anyway.) Regardless, a thunder cloud is not something that immediately brings fear to my mind. On the contrary, the connotation that I get from a thunder cloud is one of power, immensity and majesty.

Secondly, when I think of a thunder cloud as intending to represent God, I instantly think of the way that God revealed himself to Moses on Mt. Sinai... in a thunder cloud. This of course brings to mind, God's self identification from Exodus 34:6-7:

The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."

Consequently, I think that a thunder cloud is one of the most appropriate images possible to represent the Father.

[Bob Hyatt]

That's not thunder! (though thunder might be implied)...

That's a good ol' fashioned lightening bolt.

You know the kind we joke about God using to smite people with?

If what you are describing is the direction they wanted to go, a pillar of fire, or a throne or crown would have been a more appropriate (and less easily misunderstood) choice.

As it is, the impression given is that God is about the smite....

[Jon]

No Bob. It's not just lightening. And it's not thunder (though thunder and lightening are part of it. I shouldn't have said it's a thundercloud. I should have said it's a cloud... a cumulonimbus perhaps... Maybe more inclusively, we could call it a storm. Either way, it's not about smite. It's about the way that God revealed his presence to Israel.

I think you're just letting your anti-MH/Mark bias "help" you interpret it in the worst light possible.

[bob hyatt]

certainly a possibility- as is the possibility that you are allowing a closeness and pro- mark/mh bias to blind you to what an increasing number of observers of mars hill and mark's theology are becoming concerned about...

[Zach Lind]

that's not a shepherd's staff, that's clearly a candy cane.