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This guy sounds boring with his intellectualist dead Christianity! Sounding like a college professor!? No way, man! Where's the rock band, the hip-hop youth pastor, the video screens, the fireworks? Where's the phony miracles, the tongues-speaking, the hysteria? Where's the uneducated pastor who roams around the stage ranting and raving? Where's the doctrinal anarchy? This doesn't sound like the Christianity I know from TBN!

I am a young Brazilian pastor, planting a church in Brazil, I've got to know Dr. Keller at The Gospel Coalition Conference. Thank you very much for this article, very clarifying, challenging and encouraging.

I read the "expose" that Xavier Pickett posted (which, btw, he authored). I must say that it is a completely unfair attack on Redeemer. Xavier asserts that the reason Redeemer gave for letting a black pastor go (the church said he wasn't the best fit ideologically or ecclesially) was racist. That is utterly ridiculous, given that Xavier didn't offer ANY REAL EVIDENCE to back his claims. Given that many black pastors DO DIFFER A LOT in their ecclesial and ideological views from classical Reformed theology--and Redeemer is STAUNCHLY Reformed--Redeemer may well have had a compelling reason to dismiss him! Ironically, the black female commenter who criticized Redeemer in the 'expose' reinforces my point. She wrote that she "does not hold to many of the beliefs or worship styles" of Redeemer--and then BLAMES REDEEMER for not showing "warmth" to her! So many people are trying to nitpick nonexistent specks in Redeemer while ignoring the planks in their own walk with God. Amazing.

Redeemer doesn't struggle with race more than any other church.Inner city black community churches are entrenched in civil religion not Christ. At least Redeemer preaches Christ and is making an effort to reach out.

I loved the article,it sounds like Dr. keller and his wife have a great calling on their lives. I am praying and seeking a church that doesn't "preach rules and regulations" but rather the freedom we have in Christ and it sounds like this is the message from his pulpit. All the soul cleaning comes from the indwelling holy Spirit of the living Word; if I lived in Manhattan I certainly would be attending Dr. Fuller's church, what a great work God has given him. In Christ's love, Polly Groves