Mark Driscoll On ABC News

A few years ago I got to hear Mark Driscoll speak at pastor's conference I attended. He talked about the power of the gospel. It was phenomenal.

ABC News covered him last night on NightLine - link to story:

Driscoll calls the mainstream church's portrayal of Jesus "a hippie-Christ. A neutered and limp-wristed popular sky fairy of popular culture that would never talk about sin or send anyone to hell."

According to Driscoll, Jesus was an outcast who didn't play by the rules.

"Jesus is typically portrayed as very effeminate guy, kind of long, flowing hair wearing a dress, always smiling, [making] pithy Zen statements that read like fortune cookies at a Chinese restaurant," he said. "And the truth is that he was a construction worker. He was very controversial and got murdered."

"I believe that Jesus is God, I believe the Bible is true, I believe people are really going to hell," he said. "Those things in our culture are seen as crazy."

"If you are not a Christian then you do not have eternal life."

Thanks for telling it like it is Mark.