Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Another Anabaptist (Challies) Reviews Two Anabaptists: Piper and Warren

Thinking About Rick Warren & John Piper

Desiring God Ministries has posted John Piper’s long-awaited interview with Rick Warren. This has brought to completion the invitation Piper extended to Warren to speak at the 2010 Desiring God National Conference. The interview was supposed to happen at that event, but in the end Warren was unable to travel to Minneapolis and the interview was postponed. The men got together on May 1, 2011 and this video is the result.

Today I want to offer up some thoughts on it. I do so because over the years I have come out as a bit of a critic of Rick Warren and his ministry. This is not something I am entirely comfortable with, but it was no surprise to me that when the interview was posted I began to receive questions; people wanted to know what I thought of it. And, frankly, I wanted to know what I thought of it. So what I intend to do in this article is simply let you into my mind as I wrestle through the interview and its implications.

For more from Challies, another Anabaptist reviewing the Piper-Warren engagement, a fellow-Anabaptistic-Canadian, non-Confessionalist and non-Anglican, see:
http://www.challies.com/articles/thinking-about-rick-warren-john-piper

They all are Americo-Canadian evangelicals, non-lits and non-Confessionalists.  It shows.

Another and an earlier view was offered at:
http://reformationanglicanism.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post.html

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