With great passion, he has devoted more than twenty years to life-giving Bible teaching. Preaching magazine named him one of the 25 most influential pastors of the past 25 years.
Born in North Dakota in 1970, Mark Driscoll grew up the son of a union drywaller in south Seattle. After graduating from high school, he attended Washington State University on scholarship. He graduated from WSU with a Bachelor's degree in Speech Communication from the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication. He later completed a Master's degree in Exegetical Theology from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon.