BJU President Pettit makes historic visit to Wheaton’s campus

For anyone interested & in the vicinity, President Pettit will be in Bloomington, MN (a suburb of Minneapolis) next Thursday night, November 5th:

Dinners

Minneapolis, Minn. — Nov. 5
Hilton Minneapolis/Bloomington

Tickets

Cost: $10
High school students and pastors are free.

http://www.bju.edu/events/near-you/friendship-dinners/

I’m glad you checked with Wheaton concerning this, but just curious whether you also checked with Pettit/BJU? There are usually two (or more, haha) sides to a story.

In the picture on the lower, left corner it looks like Dr. Horn was there as well.

First a visit to Wheaton, next we’ll hear about Big Daddy Weave at BJU for an artist series, BJU starts its own Christian rock band “Redeemed,” then the firing, re-hiring, and resignation of Pettit, then Stephen Jones’ son comes back to be the next president only to see BJU close in 12 short months.

Nah, that sounds like fiction. That would never happen.

I do apologize, Jim, for the vagueness of my query. I never doubted the veracity of their presence on campus, and am sorry you interpreted it that way. Rather, I’m asking whether the purpose of their being there has been ascertained.

[Jim]

The President was in Chicago for a Friendship Dinner and he was invited by a Wheaton employee who regularly attends our friendshp dinners to tour a few of the museums at Wheaton. Nothing more than that! Actually, other Friendship Dinner teams have done this tour as well.

Well, now I AM disappointed. I was hoping that there was more than that.

Thanks Jim. Your exposure of the truth has ruined the day for gossips.

Have the basic positions of either school changed in the last few years?

[DLCreed]

Jim wrote:

The President was in Chicago for a Friendship Dinner and he was invited by a Wheaton employee who regularly attends our friendshp dinners to tour a few of the museums at Wheaton. Nothing more than that! Actually, other Friendship Dinner teams have done this tour as well.

Well, now I AM disappointed. I was hoping that there was more than that.

http://www.centralseminary.edu/resources/nick-of-time/notes-from-here-a…

Years ago, I was in Virginia and stopped to see an acquaintance at Pat Robertson’s Regent University. While I was there, he showed me around the campus a bit, then introduced me to Pentecostal historian Vinson Synan. My visit was purely personal and had nothing to do with any endorsement of Pentecostalism in general or Pat Robertson in particular—and nobody thought that it had.

Apparently, if you’re Steve Pettit, you aren’t allowed to make personal visits. Steve was in Chicago and dropped by the campus of Wheaton College to greet a personal acquaintance. While he was there, this acquaintance showed him a bit of the campus (the C. S. Lewis shrine is worth visiting—I’ve been there, too). No endorsement of Wheaton or its policies was considered or implied.

But somebody snapped Steve’s picture, then wrote up an article in the Wheaton student paper. Next thing you know, bloggers like Adam Laats and John Fea were speculating about some sort of rapprochement between Wheaton and Bob Jones University. Oh, my.

It’s all bunk, of course. Laats and Fea are trading in guesswork and gossip over an event that has no significance at all. BJU is not moving toward neoevangelicalism, and Wheaton certainly isn’t moving toward fundamentalism. If anyone is moving at all, it would be Laats and Fea, since guesswork and gossip are the two most important contributions of some fundamentalist blogs. Perhaps we should welcome these men to the fold.

Because we’re talking about such weighty and important matters in this thread, I feel compelled to point out that the editors of the Wheaton Record forgot to capitalize “October.” See Jim’s image above.