Thursday
Jun102010
Mike Horton at the Saddleback Conversation Gathering
Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 07:37PM 
Mike Horton was a panelist at tonight's Saddleback Conversation Gathering. Mike's the third from the left. White Horse Inn producer Shane Rosenthal took the picture above and admits to getting a hug from Rick Warren himself, who, according to Shane, calls himself a "purpose-driven" hugger.
Update on Friday, June 11, 2010 at 09:34AM by
Kim Riddlebarger
Kim Riddlebarger
I don't have access to any audio yet, but here's a picture of Mike Horton and Rick Warren that will remain an object of conversation for years to come!
Reader Comments (16)
KIDDING!
Awesome.
http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/bakers-evangelical-dictionary/awe-awesome.html
Did he get a word in edgewiise?
Was there any mention of the "Promise Driven Gospel"?
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A sign of the end-times, perhaps.
http://www.saddleback.com/webcast/12cities12conversations/
It's sadly funny how gullible today's neo-reformed leaders can be:
Rick Warren whispers the magic word "Edwards" in John Piper's ear and he gets invited to DesGod. What better shibboleth (or "Open, Simsim") could Warren have chosen to get Piper to open his doors?
Mike Horton wrote in response to Piper's invite of RW (April 1, 2010):
...Pastor Warren tailors his appeals to his audience. To Calvinists, he stresses his support for the “solas” of the Reformation... Rick Warren endorses a host of books, from New Age authors to Emergent writers to conservative evangelicals. So why not include Calvinists?...
And why not Westminster Seminary profs, too?
Mike apparently thought twice about his condemnatory stance toward Rick Warren, since he participated in the June "Saddleback Conversation Gathering," held in the run-up to the October Lausanne Conference.*
He gives this cheery update from June 23rd:
I had a great time at the Lausanne “Global Conversation” held at Saddleback Church and hosted by its pastor, Rick Warren. It was a privilege to be part of a distinguished panel of evangelical leaders from a wide variety of backgrounds... It’s great to be able to discuss our differences as well as our common convictions in a spirit of friendship as well as mutual challenge. Our mission at White Horse Inn is to go to any forum that invites us where we have a chance to clarify what we are convinced is the proper message and mission of the church...
Mike has apparently missed his own warning! He attacks Warren as a man-pleaser, and as a distorter of the gospel, and then strangely changes strategy, feeling "privileged" to speak at a conference hosted by Warren @ S-back!
If Warren is as nefarious as Mike painted him on April Fools Day, then Mike's embrace (literally) of Warren is akin to Luther calling the pope the antichrist one day and kissing his ring the next, or Paul hugging a Judaizer after writing that such should be "cut off" & anathema!
See www.trinityfoundation.org/horror_show.php?id=51 for a piece the editor calls "Horton's Hypocrisy."
I have also challenged Mike in private. I call on his friends and fans to do the same. May he be granted repentance of his capitulation to pragmatism and of his hypocrisy toward Warren.
Yours for Christ & the gospel,
Hugh McCann
* One readily sees how pervasive this Lausanne movement is, as many putatively "Reformed" seminaries participate: Covenant, Fuller, Gordon-Conwell, & TEDS. A number of "Reformed" folk are speaking in pre-Lausanne conversations: Belcher, Chandler, Chapell, Duncan, Guinness, Horton, Keller. Also, Mark Dever recently discussed justice with Jim Wallis at the www.12cities12conversations.com website.
Maybe it was an April Fool's joke.
Seriously, I agree. Saying "the bridge is out" in long technically correct legalese (which apparently is how Michael struck these people judging from their reactions) is not really very helpful information.