{"id":424,"date":"2007-03-22T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2007\/03\/22\/on-pipers-ongoing-association-and-support-of-driscoll\/"},"modified":"2007-03-22T01:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T01:20:00","slug":"on-pipers-ongoing-association-and-support-of-driscoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2007\/03\/22\/on-pipers-ongoing-association-and-support-of-driscoll\/","title":{"rendered":"on piper&#8217;s ongoing association and support of driscoll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willingdon.org\/refocus\/\">reFocus<\/a>. Some of the other names involved in this conference may also be suspect, but one supposes they are for different reasons.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8216;broader evangelical&#8217; 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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>Don Johnson<br \/>Jer 33.3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-6Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"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=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}