Just over a month ago, news that John Piper had tweeted a farewell to Rob Bell, in response to his newest book, , took over evangelical blogs, the twittersphere and secular news agencies.
The fervor over whether or not Bell was a universalist; or whether Piper was being unfair was almost instantaneous. Many people, myself included, were asked our thoughts.
As I was working on my response, I heard from my good friend and former pastor, ,
that he was going to handle the issue in a six-part series. I have just been able to read it, and it is fantastic. I will be posting the links to his blog over the next five days.
The reason that I will post a link each day is in the hopes that the posts will be read in the spirit they were written in. When I was talking with JR on the phone about a week ago, he shared that he hoped that people would read the content and reflect a bit, not just just to the next one or try to get to the answer.
Obviously, if you just want that, you can just stay on his site and do so 🙂 but I hope you will give his answers some reflection.
This isn’t to say you agree or disagree with everything JR says, but he does provide a great foundation upon which the continuing conversation can be had. And what I like is that he tracks the discussion a bit through history. Like it, like it, like it.
So, here is post one. Take a look and I’d love to know what you think!
Peace, Jim
