Archives for 3.22.07

Daniel Wallace, writing a review of a book by the apostate Bart Ehrman acknowledges the damage that Ehrman’s writings can inflict upon the church with this line:

The intentional dumbing down of the church for the sake of filling more pews will ultimately lead to defection from Christ.

A biblical ministry must make faithful teaching of the whole counsel of God a priority.

[Please note: I don’t agree with all of Wallace’s conclusions in this article, just noting this pithy comment.]

I am almost finished with my renovation project, so I hope to have more regular posts shortly. I thought I would bring a little item to your attention in the meantime.

John Piper is continuing to allow his name to support Mark Driscoll, the pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle. A conference will be held at Willingdon Church in Burnaby, BC April 18-20, 2007 called reFocus. Some of the other names involved in this conference may also be suspect, but one supposes they are for different reasons.

I find this quite surprising in light of the criticism Piper received after having Driscoll in his own conference last fall, but I am not really surprised on the general ‘broader evangelical’ approach of Piper being involved in such a conference. In spite of the desire of many to make him a different kind of evangelical, I don’t think he really is. He is consistent in the kinds of associations he forms. What mystifies me more is that some supposed fundamentalists seem to think that Piper is moving in a more conservative direction.

Regards,
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3