John Piper's Animated Hand Gestures Delivered A Sound Doctrinal Message In Sign Language Purely By Accident--Err, Sovereign Grace.

St. Paul, MN

Preaching from 1 John 2:2, John Piper was speaking on the propitiation we have for "our sins" and the sins "of the whole world", in Christ. During a climactic moment in the sermon, John began waiving and signaling his hands through the air with a great intensity many have come to adore. At a particularly aggressive moment in the sermon, he gave a perfect message regarding that very topic for about three minutes as he spoke--in sign language.

It wasn't realized at first, but was brought up shortly after by a deaf student; afterwards confirmed later by others. The deaf student, 18-year old Ryan Eck, told us, "I have gotten really good at lip reading, and so I sit as close to the front as I can in order to do it. I don't need sign language if I'm close enough. However, I noticed that as John began to swoop his hands through the air, in and out of the other, talking about Christ going into the Earth, out again, and onto glory, I just instinctively began to listen to his hands. He was preaching the exact same message almost word for word. It was so seamless I didn't even think for a moment that it wasn't intentional until I approached John afterward. He just looked at me and laughed. When we realized what happened, we were both quite amazed."

We reviewed the tape later with a couple other deaf students who are friends of Ryan, and they confirmed the account. John was not available for comment--verbal or otherwise.

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