Recently, Pastor John delivered the Gaffin Lecture on Theology, Culture, and Mission at Westminster

Theological Seminary near Philadelphia.

But the night before was gathering at the seminary where Pastor John also spoke.

The short message to the small gathering was not officially recorded, but a few guys

in the room did record from their iPhones, and Jared Oliphant was one of them.

Here is one clip from the message I want to share, and although the audio quality is not

great, the excerpt is interesting because here Pastor John recounts.

The seminary days of Fuller in 1968 to 1971, and coming face to face with Reformed Theology.

Here is what he said to the small gathering.

I didn't learn my Reformed Theology mainly from John Calvin or even Jonathan Edwards,

who my esteem is highly as one can possibly esteem and not divine be.

I learned it from Romans 9 and Romans 1 to 8, and Galatians and Summon on the Mount, and

first Corinthians with Dan Fuller pushing my nose down in the nitty-gritty of the conjunctions

and the connectors of, in order that, and because, and so that, and all though, and so on.

And to this day, find the Theology in Escapable in the Bible.

Well, as I looked around as I was discovering these things and said, what am I getting

into? Where is this? What is this? There was this batch called Westminster on the other side

of the country that had solidity about it. It wasn't like somebody woke up and said, I think

we'll bleed in the sovereignty of God now. I mean, that there, I mean, those of you who do

the Historical Theology will regard this as utterly naive because, you know, it goes back

to what it's missed. But for me, casting about as a southern Baptist kid, suddenly discovering

that his mind was being dismantled to have anything that looked solid on this felt very

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