Steve McCoy & Tim Keller

I know I have mentioned it before, but I know it has been a while, so I mention it again… I love reading Steve McCoy's blog, Reformissionary.  His was one of the first blogs I started reading about living missionally, reformed doctrine.  He pointed often to the work and writing of Tim Keller, one of the great missional, reformed thinkers of our time.  Steve pointed out a new article about Mr. Keller and when I read it, I knew I had to share it as well.  It's from Christianity Today, "How Tim Keller Found Manhattan." 

It was fascinating to find out more about how Mr. Keller was led to Manhattan and how his church, Redeemer Presbyterian, started out.  He is truly gifted at being able to contextualize his messages and maintain their gospel integrity.  He speaks to believers and non-believers alike with the same humility and passion, always pointing to the Cross.  This is just one of the passages in the article that spoke to me.

He goes on to preach four points of doctrine: the goodness of creation, the finiteness of creation, the unity of creation, and the importance of creation. His audience is dead silent, apparently rapt. Citing Jonathan Edwards, Elisabeth Elliot, J. R. R. Tolkien, Richard Dawkins, and John Updike, he fills out the richness of doctrine. Along the way, for each of his four points, he manages to appeal to nonbelievers. For example, regarding the goodness of creation, he says that Christianity may be the most materialistic religion there is, citing the miracle at Cana. "Nobody has a better motivation to be playful" than people who know that God made the earth and made it good.

Read the article.  I'm going to go enjoy a glass of good wine now.