{"id":1232,"date":"2009-04-17T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T16:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/04\/17\/vindication\/"},"modified":"2009-04-17T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T16:12:10","slug":"vindication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/04\/17\/vindication\/","title":{"rendered":"vindication?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that John MacArthur has thoroughly and fully spoken on the subject, perhaps  my complaints will be taken a little more seriously, eh?<\/p>\n

Oh, what subject? Read MacArthur<\/p>\n

Here<\/a><\/p>\n

and here<\/a><\/p>\n

and here<\/a> <\/p>\n

and here<\/a><\/p>\n

If you want to reference my complaints, please see my posts in the archives connected with the preacher in question. See also this post<\/a> where I express my dismay about some who might be in a certain ecclesiastical camp.<\/p>\n

I really have to applaud Dr. MacArthur on this issue. I highly recommend, no, urge and admonish you to read his posts if you have not already done so. They are very well done. Would that fundamentalists would be so strong. Worried that they are not and don\u2019t see the need to be<\/strong>. I\u2019ll give you MacArthur\u2019s closing paragraphs after the jump\u2026<\/p>\n

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Here they are:<\/p>\n

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It is past time for the issue to be dealt with publicly.<\/p>\n

Finally, it seriously overstates the involvement of John Piper and C. J. Mahaney to say they are \u201cdiscipling\u201d Mark Driscoll. In the first place, the idea that a grown man already in public ministry and constantly in the national spotlight needs space to be \u201cmentored\u201d before it\u2019s fair to subject his public actions to biblical scrutiny seems to put the whole process backward. These problems have been talked about in both public and private contexts for at least three or four years. At some point the plea that this is a maturity issue and Mark Driscoll just needs time to mature wears thin. In the meantime, the media is having a field day writing stories that suggest trashy talk is one of the hallmarks of the \u201cNew Calvinism;\u201d and countless students whom I love and am personally acquainted with are being led into similar carnal behavior by imitating Mark Driscoll\u2019s speech and lifestyle. Enough is enough.<\/p>\n

Yes, I did inform John Piper and C. J. Mahaney of my concerns about this material several weeks ago. I itemized all of these issues in much more thorough detail than I have written about them here, and I expressly told them I was preparing this series of articles for the blog.<\/p>\n

To those asking why pastors Piper and Mahaney (and others in positions of key leadership) haven’t publicly expressed similar concerns of their own, that is not a question for me. I hope you will write and ask them<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

All I can say is, \u201cHear, hear!\u201d Thank you, Dr. MacArthur.<\/p>\n

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Now that John MacArthur has thoroughly and fully spoken on the subject, perhaps  my complaints will be taken a little more seriously, eh? Oh, what subject? Read MacArthur Here and here and here and here If you want to reference my complaints, please see my posts in the archives connected with the preacher in question. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[62,37,71,76,68,67],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-jS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}