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We want to thank the elders of Mars Hill Church and their families for loving us well and seeking our good in Christ along with the rest of the people who call Mars Hill home.

We want to thank Mars Hill Executive Pastors Jamie Munson and Dave Bruskas and their families for being amazing to work with and for your friendship.

We want to thank the deacons, community group leaders, and Redemption Group leaders of Mars Hill Church who, along with various other leaders, make Mars Hill a very loving and special place.

We want to thank Pastor Mike Wilkerson and his wife, Trisha, for their work to help hurting people, including his book Redemption.

We want to thank Pastor Justin Holcomb and his wife, Lindsey, for their help to sexual assault victims, including their book Rid of My Disgrace. Justin’s research for our book is also greatly appreciated.

We want to thank Mike Anderson for helping to get the message of this book out, along with Anthony Ianniciello and Jesse Bryan and Jordan Butcher as well as the other members of the Preaching and Theology, and Media and Communications branches of Mars Hill.

We want to thank Deacon Nathan Burke, who serves as a very faithful and wise assistant in everything.

We want to thank the Driscoll kids, aka “the fab 5,” for being understanding while Mommy and Daddy were working on the book.

We want to thank the church planters and wives of Acts 29, who amaze us with their courage and fruitfulness.

We want to thank Grace’s faithful female friends who prayed for, encouraged, and served her very specifically throughout the writing process, and who gave her helpful feedback on the early manuscript.

We want to thank Brian Hampton and our friends at Thomas Nelson who took a real risk publishing this book. They have been a real blessing to us every step of the way, and we are sincerely thankful for their partnership.

We want to thank Kristen Parrish for editing this book and making it much better through her gracious wisdom.

We want to thank our critics who help us continually serve Jesus better by the grace of God.

We want to thank anyone who helps us get the word out about this book because we do believe it can be used of God to help people, which is why we wrote it.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Pastor Mark Driscoll is the founding pastor of Mars Hill Church, which started in 1996 as a small Bible study led by him and his wife, Grace, at their home in Seattle, Washington—the least churched city in America at the time. Since then, Mars Hill has been recognized as the 54th largest, 30th fastest-growing, and 2nd most-innovative church in America by Outreach magazine and exploded with upwards of nineteen thousand people meeting across thirteen locations in four states.

Pastor Mark is one of the world’s most downloaded and quoted pastors. He holds a B.A. in Speech Communication from Washington State University and a masters degree in Exegetical Theology from Western Seminary. He is the author of fifteen books, and the co-founder of the Acts 29 Network, which has planted over 400 churches in the US, in addition to thirteen other nations. He also founded the Resurgence, which is receives close to six million visits annually and services Christian leaders through books, blogs, conferences, and classes. Grace Driscoll delights in being a stay at home mom and helping raise the Driscoll’s three sons and two daughters. She is also a graduate of the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University, where she earned a B.A. in Public Relations.

Find out more about Pastor Mark and Grace at Pastormark.tv

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NOTES

Chapter 1

1. http://www.marshillchurch.org/search/results?q=peasant+princess.

Chapter 2

1. Those who would like to learn more about the life of Katharine von Bora Luther can read Dolina MacCuish, Luther and His Katie (Fearn, Tain, Ross-shire, Scotland: Christian Focus, 1983); and William Henry Lazareth, Luther on the Christian Home: An Application of the Social Ethics of the Reformation