Strange Fire, Authentic Fire and How I Changed My Mind
Once again, I am reposting what I have posted elsewhere. That blog has now been removed. What I have written here (though a few years old) is still relevant. Reading both ( John MacArthur and Michael Brown's ) books has been a valuable learning experience for me. I hadn’t planned to read Michael Brown’s book because I was quite certain I knew what he would say and even more certain that I would disagree. However, after listening to a presentation by John MacArthur to some of his Masters’ students and then a dialogue (also on YouTube ) between Michael Brown and Phil Johnson I decided it was important to consider more carefully what Brown had to say. From the beginning I have been sympathetic with John MacArthur. Not only did my sympathies lie with cessationism (the teaching that the miraculous gifts have ceased), I have long appreciated the ministry of a man who has been a faithful shepherd. ...