The following quote from Adrian Warnock is getting the full gauntlet from the [not reformed] today.

“I want to EXPERIENCE personally the Spirit doing this much more frequently in a way that is as thrilling as the way in which Piper describes it.”
What I am waiting for is for some of the members of that team to lose their reticence and come on out contra Dr. John Piper and his Christian Hedonism model. Plenty of posters here at the Dark Side of the Blogosphere have done so. I have their tire marks on my back to prove that nothing I could say would slow them down.

What if the quote were from Dr. Piper or Jonathan Edwards: “I want to EXPERIENCE personally the Spirit doing this much more frequently in a way that gives the greatest possible pleasure.”

Would Dr. Piper and Dr. Edwards deserve as much ink as Dr. Warnock? Piper has written entire books on this subject, and most of them are translating Edwards into contemporary prose. I’ve heard Piper say we are morally obligated to seek all the pleasure we can in God. Is “from” God somehow off the books?

I would imagine some think so. But I’m pretty sure they won’t say so. “Dour” is the new black.