{"id":70489,"date":"2024-01-22T10:15:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T16:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=70489"},"modified":"2024-01-22T10:23:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T16:23:31","slug":"commend-the-one-you-cherish-learning-evangelism-from-john-piper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=70489","title":{"rendered":"Commend the One You Cherish: Learning Evangelism from John Piper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">If only I\u2019d kept count over the years.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Personally, I\u2019ve heard dozens, if not hundreds, of men and women profess to have come to saving faith under the preaching of John Piper. I can imagine the thousands who might give similar testimony, but I\u2019ve not had the privilege of hearing from them face to face. Before God, I have peace that keeping a precise count is hardly the uppermost concern. Probably better not to produce a particular number.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">However, <span data-contrast=\"none\">evangelist<span data-contrast=\"none\"> would not be one of the first ways you\u2019d describe John Piper. More often, the words used include <span data-contrast=\"none\">pastor<span data-contrast=\"none\">, <span data-contrast=\"none\">preacher<span data-contrast=\"none\">, <span data-contrast=\"none\">theologian<span data-contrast=\"none\">, <span data-contrast=\"none\">author<span data-contrast=\"none\">, or <span data-contrast=\"none\">professor<span data-contrast=\"none\">. Of course, for some, <span data-contrast=\"none\">evangelist<span data-contrast=\"none\"> may bring to mind the revivalist crusades of yesteryear and the heyday of Billy Graham. John\u2019s own father, Bill Piper, was a traveling evangelist in that tradition. And it sounds like Bill made peace with his only son not being an evangelist like him. He affirmed John\u2019s different inclinations and abilities by reminding him, \u201cWe named you John, not Peter.\u201d True to his name, John was far more contemplative and not a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Piper did not become a \u201ctraveling evangelist\u201d like his father. Yet, in God\u2019s remarkable providence, the evangelist\u2019s son has quietly, inconspicuously, almost counterintuitively been a surprisingly fruitful winner of souls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[321],"class_list":["post-70489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-evangelism-gospel","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70491,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70489\/revisions\/70491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}