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So, now I am wondering what lasting good this senseless confrontation accomplished. Was anybody saved, fed, clothed, encouraged, edified? Except for providing another publicity stage for the principals and, maybe, proving that someone was right and the other was wrong, I cant see much else was achieved.
If Driscolls attempt to enter into the conference had the result of demonstrating that the underling purpose of the conference, which was to undermine the work and person of the Holy Spirit was a fraud, then I would say that Driscoll with one stroke, may have been able to help many of our less than astute brothers and sisters (and the rest) to realise that what MacArthur, Sproul and others were promoting was nothing less than a false humanist gospel.
In post #54 Andrea411 mentioned that she was unable to find any secular references to the event so I gather that the secular media has left it alone. If I had not seen some earlier references to this worldly conference in this forum, as it was organised by MacArthur, then I really wonder if I would have taken notice of it when the online Christian magazines made mention of it as Ive mentioned before, for me, MacArthur is simply a bit of a yawn so I doubt if I would have bothered clicking on the articles heading for any more info.
So hopefully, his presence, which may have only been outside of the conference building has had an impact, along with the numerous articles by Pentecostals and charismatic commentators which have pointed out MacArthurs dishonesty with the purpose of the event.
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