Today, we highlight an excerpt from a Q&A session, Pastor John recently led with the students

at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia earlier that day.

He had just delivered the lecture, The New Calvinism and The New Community on March 12th

of this year.

Here's a question that came from one student.

Hi Dr. Piper, I appreciated your thoughts this morning on New Calvinism and I was just

wondering if you could speak to how the New Calvinists or how the reformed camp can relate

to broader evangelicalism.

I noticed what you had done a couple years ago by inviting Rick Warren to speak at

Desiring God, but I was also wondering very practically, would you advise that we commend

a Christian to go to Rick Warren's church or a church that doesn't embrace the doctrines

of grace?

It depends on what else is available.

Enter to go to church, defective church than no church.

Churches are given in the New Testament, you're not part of church, you're not part of Jesus.

So that's a big deal and there aren't many perfect churches, like none.

So yeah, I'd send people to Rick Warren's church in a minute, unless there was something

more robust, more full, I mean, I don't know if you heard my 90 minute conversation with

Rick, it's online, and Rick is a Calvinist.

He's a five-point Calvinist.

His problem is, and I don't care if he hears this, because I told him, face to face, his

problem is he doesn't foreground it, it is so background, nobody would know it, doctrine

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