Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary

If one can afford it.

Because, you know, I went through Gordon-Conwell and it was in the Boston campus.

And I had fellow students, you know, fellow classmates of mine who could never afford something like Lagos, right? And so they would go through and do the hard legwork.

I admired them because they were the ones who would be in the library.

Oh, come on.

Who taught at Gordon-Conwell wrote on Amiro? Did his PhD at Harvard? Oh, Brad Armstrong? No, Roger Nicole.

So, sorry.

Roger Nicole made this argument that Amiro was, at bottom, a rationalist.

You know there are fewer atheists around the world today than there were in 1970? 147 million atheists, 165 million in 1970.

The Gordon Conwell report expects the number to continue to decline until 2050.

So there's not fewer religious people right now.

There are more religious people, and it seems to be increasing.

They can't.

When I was in seminary, which wasn't that long time ago at Gordon-Conwell, I had to go down to the computer lab to check my email.

Well, when I was elected president here...

There was no publicly accessible thing called the internet.

A key takeaway about this time period, this was a terrible, fragile truce that was happening.

Timothy Tennant, he was a Gordon-Conwell professor.

I think he's now a president of one of the evangelical seminaries out there, but he's a missions guy.

He actually wrote one of my missions textbooks for school at Gordon-Conwell.

This is a quote from him.

The 16th century Protestant Reformation did not produce any missionaries.

I didn't even see it at Liberty University when I was there.

But I'm willing to bet that the people who probably have it subscribe to it or have it in their offices are going to be at places like wheaton and fuller seminary and gordon conwell and like these more i would say evangelical institutions who have veered more left over the last few decades because that's where christianity today is So this isn't going to help them, guys.

Like that's the completely switch to the business model.

And it's like a risky move if that's what they're doing.

Yeah, J.D. Hall.

So I don't know if this needs any commentary, but yeah, there is a point, and this is part of the reason I wanted to bring this up.

There is a point in which you know someone so well that that you and you know what let me interrupt myself real quick john i just saw a comment i wanted before i forget say this gordon conwell still has conservative professor says john toby so we've got a couple comments come in but that's the one i wanted to because i knew i'd forget i wanted to focus on that so yes i think a lot of these places do have some conservative professors i would say overall though there's a shift that's been happening and uh it's it's not a great shift so all right um back to what i was saying before so there are people like john macarthur for example who You may not know everything about him, but the years he's been in the pulpit, the people he's surrounded himself with, his reputation, his motivations.

There's a certain trust that emerges.

praying and asking for renewal is a necessary part of how God works and how God works through you and me.

Perhaps the most well-respected pastor in my lifetime was someone who was trained for ministry in South Hamilton, Massachusetts at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

He was a person who helped to lead renewals that have been occurring in New York City through best-selling books and And this is a pastor, the late pastor, Tim Keller.

And Tim wrote this in his forward to the book I quoted earlier, Dynamics of the Spiritual Life, by his professor, Richard Loveless.

She went back to the same tribe that killed her husband and was a faithful witness to bring that village to faith.

Taught at Gordon-Conwell, right? She did.

Yeah, that's right.

And then she remarries only to have her second husband die shortly after their marriage of cancer.