Last month, John MacArthur hosted a conference titled Strange Fire.

The conference, which was critical of all things continuationist, generated for us a pile

of email questions from our listeners, as you can imagine, and most of them just wanted

to know your general thoughts, Pastor John.

But probably the most specific question we received most frequently was related to things

said about you publicly at the conference.

Allegedly, it was said that while you do have a category for prophecy and tongues today,

and that you're personally open to them, this is an anomaly to your overall theology,

and you don't seem exegetically convinced enough to advocate others pursue prophecy and

tongues for themselves.

What are your thoughts when you hear something like this?

Well, the last thing I want to do is in any way diminish or obstruct John MacArthur's

incredibly fruitful expository ministry.

I love John.

I love that ministry.

I have an app on my phone called Downcast, which is for gathering and managing your audio

podcasts.

And I listened to very few people, and John MacArthur is one of them.

And that's because his attention to the text and his love of the Bible and his ability

to apply it in forceful and relevant ways is incredibly helpful to me.

And I don't hesitate to tell people, go there and grow.

So anything I say by way of disagreement is not in any sense a diminishment of that.

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