Jesus Christ: The End and Ground of Tolerance

Terrorist attacks. Mass slaughter of religious minorities in Indonesia and Sudan. The Middle East churning with rage. Tension is building. Anger is flaring. Everyone is calling for tolerance. But increasingly Evangelicals are being branded intolerant, a seedbed of terrorism, because of their belief in the exclusivity of the gospel. In these two addresses delivered at the Wheaton College and Graduate School 2002 Commencement ceremonies, John Piper unpacks the relationship between Jesus Christ and religious pluralism and tolerance. He contends that Christ, the source and ground of all truth, will Himself one day bring an end to all tolerance. But in the meantime, his followers are called to shed their own blood for the gospel, not the blood of others. Our goal is to display Christ as infinitely admirable and desirable so that others might know the everlasting, all-satisfying joy of admiring Christ.

• 2002 Wheaton College Commencement Address
• 2002 Wheaton Graduate School Commencement Address