{"id":559,"date":"2012-12-18T21:46:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T02:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/?p=559"},"modified":"2012-12-18T21:46:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T02:46:33","slug":"moe-bergeron-dgcc-faithfulness-and-the-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/2012\/12\/18\/moe-bergeron-dgcc-faithfulness-and-the-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Moe Bergeron, DGCC, Faithfulness, and the Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t miss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/a-web-pioneer-s-wild-dream\">this excellent video from Desiring God about the beginning of the DG internet ministry<\/a>. The video features my friend Moe Bergeron, a bi-vocational pastor in New England. It is not far-fetched to say that were it not for Moe, there would be no Desiring God Community Church in Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>Moe began posting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pipersnotes.com\/piper.htm\">Pipers Notes<\/a> on the fledgling internet in 1995. Very shortly thereafter I found the site via some early search engine. I had never read anything by John Piper before. My brother-in-law Ed, however, had been extolling Piper so I recognized the name. I found his sermons exceptionally helpful, and returned regularly to see if Piper had preached on passages I was about to tackle.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Moe organized the sermons only by date. There was no index by Scripture passage, limiting its usefulness to me. So I contacted Moe and asked him if someone was working on such an index. He said a few folks had approached him indicating they might produce one, but no one had actually done it. I completed it over the next couple of weeks. Moe was surprised and delighted. He and I continued a correspondence, and we met a few times in the late 90s at conferences in New England. We immediately clicked, finding a real kinship in the God-centered Gospel.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in 2000, after becoming certain that our Lord was calling me into full-time ministry, I wrote Bethlehem Baptist, asking if I might spend 3 months at the church in preparation. No one at Bethlehem knew me; nevertheless, they said yes. I later learned that it was my work on the Pipers Notes Scripture index that proved I was not just some random person trying to get close to an increasingly well-known preacher, but already was part of this God-centered movement.<\/p>\n<p>So I thank God for Moe Bergeron, his vision for free resources on the internet, his boldness in approaching Piper, and his faithfulness to his calling. And I stand amazed at our sovereign God who weaves our lives together into the tapestry of His Kingdom for the glory of His Name.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/vimeo.com\/54379117<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t miss this excellent video from Desiring God about the beginning of the DG internet ministry. The video features my friend Moe Bergeron, a bi-vocational pastor in New England. It&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,26],"tags":[199,510,1164,1484],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-video-recommendations","tag-bergeron","tag-faithfulness","tag-pipers-notes","tag-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}