March 26, 2009

In Other News, Hell Freezes Over...

In doing my morning blog reading, I was interested in Mark Driscoll's post about one of his (and my) spiritual heroes, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Driscoll very helpfully provided a list of links at the bottom of the page to various resources on Spurgeon's life and work. Lo and behold, one of these links was to none other than Phil Johnson's Spurgeon Archive.

If you know anything about these two men, you know that they do not exactly see eye-to-eye on a number of issues. I happen to admire both men: Johnson for his tireless apologetic work on Pyromaniacs and for a sermon I heard him give entitled Dead Right, and Driscoll for the way he takes it to the emergents and for some of his innovative thoughts on church planting in a pagan society. I knew that they were both admirers of Spurgeon, and I wondered if perhaps at some point good ol' CH might reach from beyond the grave and bring them together.

Now I know that the fact that Driscoll linked Johnson's site does not necessarily mean that they are ready to--as Driscoll once said in another context--get matching sweaters and ride a tandem bike. Yet perhaps they will discover that there are more things they have in common.

Exit question: I wonder how Driscoll--who has defined the New Calivnists as non-cessationists--deals with the fact that his spiritual hero was almost certainly a cessationist?

Posted by Andrew on March 26, 2009 9:01 AM.