Well, welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. It was a few many

weeks ago that we had two guests on here, Johnny Gibson and Mark Erngi, and they published

book, Reformation Worship, Select Liturgies from the past for the present.

Well I have back on our show today Dr. Johnny Gibson.

Dr. Gibson, welcome back.

Thanks very much, Steve.

Good to be with you.

Well, you are an assistant professor of Old Testament

at my alma mater at Westminster Theological Seminary, right?

Yes, that's correct.

You're still spoken about round the corridors.

Oh, well, I loved my time there and I miss it.

Now let's get this right, just so we identify the accident. You were born in England, but you were raised in Northern Ireland, and you studied at Cambridge.

Yes, I studied, I was raised, born in England, raised in Africa as a missionary kid, then from seven went back to live in Belfast where I was educated, then lived in South Africa for a year, then went to University in Northern Ireland, then went to Australia for my first theological degree at Moore College in Sydney, where I met my wife Jackie, and then Cambridge for PhD and seven and a half years we lived there

I was a minister a Presbyterian minister there and now you're in the city of brotherly love that That's correct. Yeah. Well welcome to America. So let's talk a little bit. You're an

Old Testament professor by trade and that's your training but you obviously have an interest in the

reformers and one of the things I think people don't often realize about the

reformers is that they were significantly trained in the languages.

Many of the key reformers knew their Hebrew very well.

And their expositional work in scripture,

their exigetical work in scripture has had a lot to do with their work as theologians

and their work as reformers and pastors.

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