10 reasons why James is better than Mark Driscoll

I’m a massive fan of Mark Driscoll and have listened to everything
he’s put up on the web for over the last two years…
but lately I’ve been hearing how great and grand he is and although I enjoy listening to him and I do think he is fantastic.
I’ve decided to write a blog entry detailing how top-notch
James Glass is, My aim is to encourage James Glass and those who serve under his leadership,
it is NOT my intention to rip on Mark Driscoll at all.

REASON 1: James Glass is near -
James is near and you get all of the benefits of that such as when you’ve had a tough day he can actually
give you a hug! not that I’m a dude hugging kind of guy(maybe a side hug), but those days when its needed
James is near and in crawley(or at least closer than Mark Driscoll)

REASON 2: James has Time -
“and if he had more time to spend then he would be with you my friend!”
no doubt James is an all round nice guy, but not only that but he manages to invest in his leaders, I’m not saying he meets everybody and chit chats and trys to fix the worlds problems. He does however invest a HUGE amount of time and effort in prayer, with his family and in the leaders in the church

REASON 3: James gets his point across without yelling -
I know he may sound like a goody two shoes in this blog entry thus far but I can assure you he is not, I’m not saying James doesn’t yell. Oh yeah he can yell great, its just that he doesn’t do it every week like some accuse Mark driscoll of doing. I still remember EVERY time James has yelled when I’ve been in the service. Can you say that about Driscoll?

REASON 4: James is Irish -
this has to be the best reason of all and I’d love to leave it at that…

actually I feel the need to clarify, James is from Northern Ireland and thus can use all the Irish Jokes and “play the Irish card” when needed, yet he is still British….
Those not from around here may not understand this phenomenon, but I feel its a great advantage.

REASON 5: Both James and Beryl(his wife) are active in the local Community -
they are both local School governors and invest a lot of time in people wherever they go, I know personally of some people from James’ Church have gone and helped clear out a local youth club, “just because” without really being asked, this sort of thing makes me glad to serve Jesus under James’
leadership.

REASON 6: He doesn’t need to inspire”the troops” with long speeches-
although your all expecting me to rip on Mark Driscoll for his long sermons here, I’m actually not going to
I think the word is important so I can’t in good conscience criticize him for it.

What I mean by “troops” is more literal than you might believe, picture the scene – INTER-CHURCH paintball!
Yes James was there leading his troops, the opposing pastor started talking to his team and taunted us for a good 10 minutes, about how much more ammo they had than us and how they were better trained
and how “great they were” amazingly inspiring speech, was brilliant and everyone was impressed.

James stood up and said, I don’t need to give long speeches to you guys you
know how great you are” We were like YEAH!!!!!!! and went a little crazy, and out-gunned and despite
the fact they had the better plan and we had a bunch of poor students we
managed to against the run of play shoot their pastor and win that game.
memories like that don’t fade quickly

REASON 7: He doesn’t boast his Sex Life -
I don’t really want to know, I know more about Mark Driscoll’s than I care to, sorry Mark I know your in america but its just not “the British way” I feel this is going to spark some issues.

REASON 8: James Blog’s nearly everyday -
this is tough to do, even for professional bloggers, I find it an inspiring read with even a few funnies thrown in. check it out at jamesjglass.blogspot.com

REASON 9: James understands the british sence of humour -
IE irony and self deprecation, its very important to reach the british to have a great sence of humour, sorry Mark I know your reaching a different audience, and we still love ya, its just we ARE just funnier than you

REASON 10: James is Led by the Holy spirit -
and has a great prophetic ministry, he is able to receive words not only for individuals in prayer and ministry time after the service but he is also able to bless the whole church with his prophetic gifting.

Other Reasons that didn’t quite make the Top ten:

James can YELL if he needs to – I found this out when to my detriment one evening a few years back when james played a game called YES/NO where you have to answer questions without saying yes or no(or repeating yourself) You could say that I lost and very quickly, James fired off about 10 questions in quick succession without letting me answer, lets just say I’m satisfied that church discipline is in safe hands.

James encourages everybody, I don’t know how he does it, I’m not saying he condones SIN or is all lovey dovey, far from it, James comes across as very real and genuine and my head is always clear after chatting to him about any issue.

James can deal with different challenges in the local church, and believe me Crawley has a few…from terrorist plots to chav’s to single mothers to hoodies, you name it people in crawley need Jesus, I’m glad James is here to help equip me and the rest of the church in crawley to do that, if I were to compare to driscoll again I’d say James doesnt just always have ppl in his church sleeping around, although that may be an issue, there is just so much more that’s more obvious.

James is big on church unity -
James is one of the key players amongst all the pastors in crawley, and rightly so. He is an incredible man of God and encourages and builds up leaders, I wouldn’t swap him for another pastor in the world.
Thank you Jesus,