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The professor we all wish we had
By Jeremy | February 14, 2008
I first heard Tim Keller preach at a Taste of Agape Week event hosted by the Christian Inter-Fellowship Council at NYU in 1994 or 95. Along with 75 or 100 other students I sat mesmerized by his ability to make complicated ideas accessible to people less smart than he, in an unassuming, self-deprecating style. He seamlessly weaved together theologians, pop culture references and literary analogies to craft an engaging and intellectually rigorous narrative that compelled its hearers to love God with all their mind. I've attended numerous services at Redeemer since then and have been personally enriched by many of their ministries for more than a decade, which made this week's "The Smart Shepherd" article in Newsweek all the more gratifying.
Don't let your mind drift, or you will miss the main attraction. At 9:40, the voice you hear reading from the Scriptures changes suddenly; it becomes deeper, more authoritative and coarser, with traces of Pennsylvania and Georgia in the vowels. Look up. The callow junior minister has disappeared. Standing at the microphone is a man more than six feet tall with a shiny bald head and wire-rim spectacles, looking more like a college professor than a megachurch pastor. This is the Rev. Tim Keller, a Manhattan institution, one of those open urban secrets, like your favorite dim sum place, with a following so ardent and so fast-growing that he has never thought to advertise. He rarely speaks to the press.HT: Peter Ong
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