Monday, March 07, 2005
Wow! Just Wow
Adrian Warnock links to Blogcorner Preacher, who in turn links to the audio of a radio interview with John Piper. I going to repeat the link here.
Both Adrian and John Luke have their "money quotes" from the interview. I started taking notes and eventually decided there was not enough paper, I just needed to transcribe the whole thing. I'm just going to point out a few things:
Piper said that he feels that in an effort to attract people to church are denying the essential doctrinal truths. Amen and Amen.
The interviewer said that Piper's latest book on justification was a "shot across the bow" to conventional evangelicalism. That immediately called to mind a rather lengthy post on Best Of The Web Today where Taranto pulls from several sources to examine how Evangelicals are "A Counterculture No More." One must wonder at what cost we have achieved that success.
Finally Piper, pointed out that today we use the cross to "exhalt our worth" instead of the worth of God. Talk about a money quote!
Thank God there are people like Piper in the world standing up for reformed theology and understanding. We would be hopelessly lost without them.
Both Adrian and John Luke have their "money quotes" from the interview. I started taking notes and eventually decided there was not enough paper, I just needed to transcribe the whole thing. I'm just going to point out a few things:
Piper said that he feels that in an effort to attract people to church are denying the essential doctrinal truths. Amen and Amen.
The interviewer said that Piper's latest book on justification was a "shot across the bow" to conventional evangelicalism. That immediately called to mind a rather lengthy post on Best Of The Web Today where Taranto pulls from several sources to examine how Evangelicals are "A Counterculture No More." One must wonder at what cost we have achieved that success.
Finally Piper, pointed out that today we use the cross to "exhalt our worth" instead of the worth of God. Talk about a money quote!
Thank God there are people like Piper in the world standing up for reformed theology and understanding. We would be hopelessly lost without them.
