Pastor John, it's not uncommon, of course, for people to point to you as a primary cause

and the recent upsurge in Calvinism here in the States.

Most recently, in his November 12th blog post, Roger Olson, who is an Arminian Theologian,

points to you as well.

He writes this quote,

People often ask my opinion about the causes of this wave of New Calvinism among American

evangelical young people.

I give much of the credit for it to John Piper.

Piper is a force of nature, articulate, brilliant, persuasive, ubiquitous, prolific,

profoundly Christian.

End quote.

Now, it's something I'm an awkward question for me to ask, and I'm sure it's a little

bit awkward for you to answer as well, but how do you process that in your own mind?

What do you think has been your contribution to the upsurge in Calvinism?

Well, that was nice of Roger.

He's not always that nice to me.

So thank you, Roger, for those over the top words, but I don't know, and I don't think

anybody can know how anybody's investment in a cause has its cause of effectiveness.

We can see what people do, but we can't draw very confident conclusions that the doing

of that produce this.

I think everybody should go and read Mark Devers' article that was just republished and

updated, I think, in October at the Gospel Coalition website on where did all these Calvinists

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