Responding to Mark Driscoll with the Bible

In my New Year Predictions, I noted that Mark Driscoll had generally kept his pie hole shut recently. That ended with a tweet this week:

A high-profile Seattle clergyman delivered a jarring note as clergy across the country delivered best wishes to President Obama at the launch of his second term in the White House.

Mark Driscoll, founding pastor at the Mars Hill Church, tweeted: “Praying for our President, who today will place his hand on a Bible he does not believe to take an oath to a God he likely does not know.”

It has been retweeted more than 2,700 times.

He repeated the comment on Facebook and got more than 7,800 “likes.”

To this verbal diarrhea, I have just one response. It comes from the Bible, that book that Mark supposedly reveres so highly. It comes from Jesus, the manliest man he’s ever followed:

And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.