John Piper on Rick Warren and the Desiring God Conference

When I went to the Youtube page to grab the embed code for the Desiring God Trailer that I just posted, I noticed a video on the side that sounded interesting. Watched it. Thought I would pass it along. (Even though I don't think that the Piper Warren thing is a big hullabaloo anymore.)

Piper and Warren

I wanted to put something up about John Piper inviting Rick Warren to the Desiring God conference, but I am not really all that good of a blogger, and the really good bloggers beat me to it. One of those really good bloggers made some really good points. Here is an excerpt from Tim Challies thoughts on the topic that might whet your appetite:

Having said all of this, I still believe it would have been best for Piper not to invite Warren. In inviting Warren, Piper is implicitly downplaying the reasons that many Reformed Christians have expressed concern about Warren and his ministry and have separated themselves from both. Yet these are good reasons based around sound biblical concerns. Let me look at this under two headings.

Read the rest of the post here and let me know what you think about Piper inviting Warren.