Bill Krispin Tribute to Jack Miller
I first met Jack Miller while taking Apologetics at WTS under Van Til in 1965. It was the beginning of a friendship that deeply impacted my life and call for years to come . . .
Jack’s transparency was always disarming. He willingly confessed his sins and his great weaknesses. But it was also contagious. I learned that God’s great strength was to be found in my weakness . . . I didn’t need anyone or so I thought. Jack’s openness about his weakness and self-sufficiency shone brightly on my own hard and self-sufficient heart.
Jack was unashamed of the gospel. You couldn’t go to a restaurant with Jack and not witness to someone. He was also unashamed about praying with people in public places. It was so embarrassing, and yet so contagious. He seemed always to be alert to opportunities and open doors. And, finally, he really believing that “if anyone is in Christ, he/she is a new creation; behold the old is passed, the new has come.” He passionately believed that the biblical gospel belonged to the Reformed . . . Jack believed that if the Reformed faith was true then it was the gospel for the nations and the lost. Through Jack many of us discovered a calling to preach and love the lost and to believe this is the way that Christ builds his church.