5. Criticism is Easier Than Contribution
Let’s just say it. Most of the people who take pot shots at Mark Driscoll or Mars Hill have done far less with their lives than Mark has or than Mars Hill has.
I’m not saying there’s nothing to take note of, be concerned about or to learn from. But it should always be done in a spirit of humility.
It’s easy to think you’d do a better job.
It’s easy to think “I wouldn’t have been as arrogant”, which in itself, is arrogant.
And it’s easy to think you’re smarter than the people who did something bigger than you did.
We live in a world in which so many of the people who criticize football calls and coaches have never put on cleats. Some can’t even walk across the living room without getting winded.
But we all know better.
Criticism is easier than contribution.
Leadership means contributing, not just criticizing. As Anton Ego said so poignantly in the movie Ratatouille:
In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so.
What God did through Mars Hill is remarkable in many ways. And as regrettable as the ending to the story so far might be, the work done through Mars Hill has been life changing for thousands. That can’t be taken away.
What are you learning from what you’ve seen at Mars Hill?
Scroll down and leave a comment. And as I said in my first post on this issue, please know any harsh or unfair comments on Pastor Mark or Mars Hill will be deleted immediately.
No stones. Not one.
This is about all of us.
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