{"id":20984,"date":"2024-02-23T12:01:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T17:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=20984"},"modified":"2024-02-23T12:01:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T17:01:44","slug":"mark-driscoll-blasts-he-gets-us-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2024\/02\/mark-driscoll-blasts-he-gets-us-campaign","title":{"rendered":"Mark Driscoll Blasts \u201cHe Gets Us\u201d Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20990\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2024\/02\/he-gets-us-driscoll_credit-He-Gets-Us-YouTube_Pastor-Mark-Driscoll-YouTube.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20990\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2024\/02\/he-gets-us-driscoll_credit-He-Gets-Us-YouTube_Pastor-Mark-Driscoll-YouTube.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He Gets Us \/ YouTube | Inset: Pastor Mark Driscoll \/ YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The \u201cHe Gets Us\u201d campaign continues to experience criticism for what some Christians are claiming is an inaccurate portrayal of Jesus. Mark Driscoll weighed in on the controversy, initially posting to his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PastorMark\/status\/1757461412631523563\">X<\/a> account, \u201cJesus washed Judas\u2019s feet and still sent him to hell.\u201d He took to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C3Vvt7GyQHB\/?igsh=MXhsbnBwenA0c2EzMg%3D%3D\">Instagram<\/a> to break down the ad. \u201cThis is a watered-down Gospel. Jesus didn\u2019t die for your comfort. Don\u2019t fall for this soft, virtue-signaling nonsense. Going to hell with clean feet is not an upgrade,\u201d he wrote. During his video, he called the ad \u201csoft, woke, garbage, nonsense, virtue signaling to those who don&#8217;t like God.\u201d \u201cJesus Christ got murdered. It\u2019s because some people felt hated by what He was teaching. All of this is just soft, woke garbage nonsense virtue signaling to those who don\u2019t like God, that you should like them because they\u2019re willing to change God for you,\u201d he said. \u201cJesus did wash feet. He washed the feet of a guy named Judas Iscariot before He sent him to hell. Some of you are going to hell with clean feet. But that&#8217;s not an upgrade.\u201d On another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PastorMark\/status\/1757971132190453965\">X<\/a> post, Driscoll wrote, \u201cSome of you are going to hell, and Christians need to know that having clean feet on your way there won\u2019t be much of an upgrade. Preach repentance.\u201d He included the hashtag \u201cHeGetsUs\u201d paired with \u201cButDoWeGetHim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ad has received its share of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2024\/02\/christians-call-out-he-gets-us-superbowl-ad.html\">criticism and praise<\/a> across the board. Conservative commentator Michael Knowles of <em>The Daily Wire<\/em>, shared that even though he understands some of the concerns about the ad, he isn\u2019t \u201ctotally opposed\u201d to it. \u201cAm I the only conservative Christian who didn\u2019t totally hate the \u2018He Gets Us\u2019 ad? Yes, it speaks \u2018woke-ese.\u2019 It\u2019s not for us; it\u2019s for secular libs. There\u2019s a risk it leads to heretical complacency. But if it gets some lost lib even to consider Our Lord, I\u2019m not totally opposed,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaeljknowles\/status\/1756874048871531012\">wrote<\/a> Knowles. Managing editor at the Babylon Bee, Joel Berry, who had his own strong condemnation against the ad, disagreed with Knowles\u2019s take but did agree that God could use it. \u201cIt&#8217;s not likely to win secular libs to the real Jesus, but it will definitely give them fuel to continue using Jesus as a secular lib mascot. That said, we can still pray that what man intends for evil, God will use for good,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoelWBerry\/status\/1757035766176206968\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Driscoll himself had his own past failures dragged up after stepping into the fray. One user responded to his post with, \u201cAs a former member of Mars Hill, it astonishes me that anyone still listens you.\u201d Driscoll was famously outed from the Mars Hill megachurch after accusations of bullying and an abusive work environment in 2014. His departure led to Mars Hill shutting down as well, with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5rJtwcRM7WNYs0LNTrlP5N\">The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill<\/a>\u201d podcast topping the charts in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cHe Gets Us\u201d campaign continues to experience criticism for what some Christians are claiming is an inaccurate portrayal of Jesus. Mark Driscoll weighed in on the controversy, initially posting to his X account, \u201cJesus washed Judas\u2019s feet and still sent him to hell.\u201d He took to Instagram to break down the ad. \u201cThis is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":20990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mark Driscoll Blasts \u201cHe Gets Us\u201d Campaign<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The \u201cHe Gets Us\u201d campaign continues to experience criticism for what some Christians are claiming is an inaccurate portrayal of Jesus.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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