While taking a listener’s question on the “Ask Pastor John” podcast, influential author John Piper admitted that he struggled to fully understand a certain scene in the Bible where the disciples could not heal an epileptic boy.
In a podcast posted Monday, Piper, who founded desiringgod.org, was asked:
“A question always arises for me when I read about Jesus’s exorcism of the epileptic boy possessed by a demon in Matthew 17:14–20, Mark 9:17–29, and Luke 9:37–43. What does Jesus mean by ‘because of your little faith’?” inquired Scott.
“What is it exactly that the disciples lacked? It seems like Jesus’ answer gives easy fuel to suffering Christians who might be told that Jesus suggests that if they just had enough faith they could be healed. How is that not the takeaway?”
Piper responded by saying he finds the words of Jesus in these passages “in part baffling.” But he wanted to “struggle out loud” with listeners as he attempted to answer the question.
He first assured listeners that this type of struggle doesn’t undermine his faith “because Jesus has done so much and said so much that the glory of God in Him has won me over to trust Him and treasure Him because of what I do see and I do understand even if there are aspects of what He says…
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