How I Got an ESV Study Bible

In my response to Al Mohler in Biblical Inerrancy: Five Views, I claimed that:

To give an analogy, if Mohler was to state something like “Churches cannot maintain a credible evangelical witness without an ESV study Bible,” and if you just happened to visit some wonderful Christ-believing churches in Lebanon or Liberia who don’t have ESV Study Bibles, then you would have to infer that Mohler was wrong and that you do not really need an ESV Study Bible to be a healthy evangelical church.

Then in a footnote I comically quipped:

Let me say that I do not own an ESV Study Bible, that several of my friends and students use it and speak of it warmly, and that if the lovely people at Crossway Publishers would like to send me one, I would seriously reconsider my position about the necessity of owning an ESV Study Bible.

So I got a lovely surprise today when I received, thanks to Justin Taylor I believe, my own ESV study Bible. It looks good, smells great, love its translation of Paul’s letters, lots of helpful charts, heaps of helpful comments. Always wanted one, now I have one. Thank you Crossway publishers for both indulging and acting on my sense of humor.

Yes, I am having a bad hair day!