More discussion of Driscoll's challenges:
Everything in the public square seems to be increasingly conflicted. We seem to be operating with less and less shared values. It feels like we're less and less sure of what holds us together as a 'society.' A retreat into 'tribes' both drives this social fragmentation and is a result of it. Post-modern scepticism towards metanarratives, which has now become culturally normal, significantly contributes to this fragmentation. If we no longer believe that objective truth, independent of our individual or tribal perspectives, exists, we will no longer believe we can appeal to that objective reality as common ground for debate. All we will do is exert power to magnify ourselves and punish those who disagree with us. Because we believe that our cause is right, we will always think of ourselves as the victim of other people's aggression. Therefore, as Stephen McAlpine says, we will always think we're punching "up." We'll valorise ourselves as the ...
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I also believe that the way that he explains away Paul's teaching re singleness in 1 Corinthians 7 - that it was situation specific due to the persecution the Corinthian church was under, is wrong. There is no evidence from either 1 or 2 Corinthians or Acts 18 that the Corinthian church was under persecution at the time that Paul wrote his letters. I'm thus forced to conclude that Driscoll's teaching of singleness has come not from the Bible, but from trying to sanctify his own experience.