If you haven’t ever heard or read Tim Keller, let me encourage you to do so. He’s the pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, and he’s been doing ministry there in a missional fashion before it was even cool to say “missional.”
But here’s the thing about Keller: In a landscape of church-planters wearing black glasses, tight t-shirts, and tribal tattoos, Keller is… well… boring. He’s bald. He’s pretty old. He wears suits and ties. If you go to his church, you’d encounter classical music and a choir.
But New Yorkers (and folks across the evangelical world for that matter) are flocking to him. So mysterious is his appeal that New York Magazine ran this profile about him. Here’s an excerpt:
Keller is a 59-year-old bald, large-framed man, dressed today in a blue blazer and gray slacks. For those expecting hellfire and brimstone, the first surprise is the voice. Keller doesn’t speak in theatrical, over-the-top tones but in a soft, conversational manner, as if he’s sharing a confidence with a friend. For today’s sermon on a passage from the Old Testament Book of Habakkuk, in which a minor Jewish prophet rails about the misery brought on by the Babylonians in the seventh century B.C., Keller jumps to the recession and what he sees as shameful finger-pointing by both liberals and conservatives. “The Bible doesn’t let you do that,” Keller intones from the pulpit. “The Bible is nowhere near as simplistic, dare I say it, as either the New York Times’ or The Wall Street Journal’seditorial page. You can write that down. Put it on your blog, I don’t care.”
Read more: Why Are So Many New Yorkers Flocking to Evangelical Christian Preacher Tim Keller? — New York Magazine http://nymag.com/news/features/62374/#ixzz0YRnrObK5
did I tell you that we went to Redeemer when we were in NY. So good!!!!
Hope isolation is going well.
Miss yall.
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Hey, hey! Old???
I just call em like I see em.