My family and I have been attending Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis (and now at a satellite campus in the southern metro area) for approximately 2 1/2 years. I had been listening to Pastor John Piper on the radio and reading his sermons and articles from Desiring God for a year or two prior to attending Bethlehem. My wife and I have grown to love his teaching.
Meanwhile, Mark Dever at the 9Marks Blog has written a 10-part series titled Where’d All These Calvinists Come From? In Part 9, Dever states, “…if I had to give a 2-word human explanation for their presence there [all those Calvinists], I know what two words I would utter: “John Piper.”"
Wow. Dever places Piper at the head of a list of men including Charles Haddon Spurgeon, John MacArthur and R.C. Sproul. It’s kind of surreal - realizing that you are afforded the weekly opportunity to sit under the teaching of someone like John Piper.
While I would like to thank Pastor Piper for the blessing he and his teaching ministry have been to me and my family, I also hope he never reads this. It would be for me a titanic struggle to resist pride in the face of so much fame and admiration. (A struggle I will most likely never encounter.) That John Piper has seemingly met both with such humility is a mark of God’s grace on his life.
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