Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History. Once again we are at Ligonier's national conference

You might hear folks in the background and we were talking with Dr. Reeves. I think last we saw him

We sent him off to a deserted island. Well, he's back from his deserted island and having had a wonderful time

I'm sure you did. I'm glad you did and I know that you have found the Puritans to be a rich source of

Just help for your own discipleship and then how you've helped others come to the Puritans and see how valuable

Their thought their understanding of who God is can help us be faithful disciples in our moment

So I'm going to ask you a very hard question Dr. Reeves and that question is this

Who is your favorite Puritan and why and I know that is a very hard question for you because

There's so many of them that you enjoy but your favorite Puritan and why it is a very hard question to offer

But the reason why it's worth sticking with them is because what they're seeking to do is hold your gaze on the subject that they're looking at

So hold your gaze on the person of Christ or the work of the spirit or whatever it is they're looking at

So that there's a rich understanding and you're turning that theology into doxology

And they do that so well

John O.M. was the first Puritan I ever read and

He transformed my theology. So when was that for you?

so I was a teenager and

I'd read some reformers before

but John O.M. was the first Puritan I got into and

It was it was volume four

Courses ways and means and it was Owen on scripture that was just

so helpful to me to see

How scripture proves itself to be what it says so I'm so grateful to Owen, but I'm not actually going to pick Owen. I'm gonna pick Richard Sibs

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