Dr. Sam Waldron is known by all of you I am sure. If not, I recommend that you go to amazon.com and buy every book he has written. Also, his blog is one of my favorites. He and Richard Barcellos brave important subjects with the courage and compassion that reminds me of Tom Ascol.
Dr. Waldron has begun a series of posts that will be a comprehensive response to Dr. MacArthur’s opening speech from Shepherd’s Conference 2007. He begins by affirming his friendship with Dr. MacArthur and documents how he, like so many of us, respect Dr. Mac as one of the contemporary defenders of the faith. In fact, because Dr. Mac is so loved and respected by all biblical theologians, Sam believes that Dr. Mac’s speech has given us all a wonderful opportunity to discuss the difference of eschatological views found among biblical scholars and has given us an opportunity to express why this debate needs to be had.
Here is a excerpt from post #1 of this series:
In fact, this brings me to what is perhaps the major reason why I am writing this response. Actually, I am thankful to MacArthur for lending us his name. Now that he has valiantly addressed this subject. We are at liberty to respond to him using his own fame to help along our cause. And our fundamental reason for so responding is simply to set the record straight. No one who thinks he understands the Scriptures on an important point can bear to see others misrepresent views he believes are thoroughly biblical. I and my fellow Amillennialists really do believe that we have biblical eschatology right. How then can we endure seeing our views drastically misrepresented? We cannot, and allegiance to the truth demands that we respond. We thank Dr. John MacArthur for making it possible by his message for us to use his name to set the record straight.
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Jason Robertson is a husband and a father and a pastor. He is dedicated to leading and equipping his the Church with God’s word and biblical theology for life ministry, using a combination of pastoral, church planting and evangelism experience. He holds a Master of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is experienced in church planting, evangelism, missions, and the training of pastors and Bible teachers.
Jason has been preaching the gospel since 1985, serving the first ten years of ministry as a Southern Baptist itinerant evangelist out of Milldale Baptist Church in Zachary, LA which ordained him in 1993. He has preached in hundreds of churches in over 30 States and 4 countries. He planted churches in Siberia, Russia in the summers of 1993 and 1994. He founded Murrieta Valley Church in California, which he planted in cooperation with the SBC NAMB in 2001. He also teaches ministry students at California Baptist University.
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