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New Book Review: Walking With Giants: The Extraordinary Life of An Ordinary Man
Dr. Haykin has recently reviewed Walking With Giants: An Ordinary Man With Extraordinary Experiences, the autobiography of Elmer Towns. Find this review and others here on our Book Review page.
Posted by Steve Weaver, Research Assistant to the Director of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies, Dr. Michael A.G. Haykin.
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September 1st, 2012 at 12:10 am
I found him too Arminian, such a pragmatist.
September 2nd, 2012 at 2:43 pm
I agree, Elmer Towns played the numbers game with a utilitarian ethic of discipleship and evangelism. He was a stain upon the church age.
April 3rd, 2013 at 12:13 pm
Are you guys kidding? Do you think everyone who is not a Reformer is an Arminian? You clearly do not understand Arminian theology if that is the case – most Southern Baptists are NEITHER Arminian nor Calvinistist, no matter how hard you try to box them in. And to call one of the greatest men of faith in today’s age a “stain upon the church” is noting short of ungodly spiritual elitism and a total lack of respect on your part and sheer ignorance from someone who most assuredly has not met this man nor spent any length of time with him. I have done both and know for fact, not speculation, that he is a genuine as they come, and that he has done more to deepen the faith of those he has discipled in a week than you will likely do in a lifetime. Before you make such baseless accusation from behind the veil of the internet, merely because his methodology differs from yours, why don’t you try heeding Phil 2:3 and also ask the Holy Spirit to give you some much needed respect for those pioneers of the faith who may be different thinkers than yourself. Both of you should be ashamed of yourself. No wonder postmoderns are sicked by the church and want to part of it. Most of them have had about as much of this type of ingenuousness as they can stomach.