About David Clotfelter
David Clotfelter has been a pastor in Asian-American churches since 1987. Since 1996 he has been English Pastor at Community Christian Alliance Church in Northridge, California.
David studied at Grinnell College (B.A. History), Yale University (M.A. East Asian Studies), Fuller Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and Claremont Graduate University (Ph.D. Religion). He also studied Mandarin Chinese for two summers at Middlebury College and lived for three years in Taichung, Taiwan. He is the author of Sinners in the Hands of a Good God (Moody Publishers, 2004).
David is married to Lisa, and they have two children. He can be reached at david@ccac.ws.
David, I have just finished “sinners” for the second time and want to say how helpful it has been to me. I have battled long with a similar question “Why are some people saved and some not?” and your book in one volume gives the most comprehensive Biblical overview of soteriology I have ever read. Thank you.
Pastor David,
I came across you name by accident. Apparantly we are probably related (not too many Clotfelters out there). What caught my attention about you is that you are a pastor and a writer. I’m a Christian as well. Just before we moved this year I was an adult Sunday school teacher and filled-in for my pastor whenever needed. I’m glad to see the Clotfelter name associated with Christianity. Within my Clotfelter family of parents, aunts, uncles, cousins etc… I got to thinking I was the only Christian in the bunch. Anyway I just wanted to introduce myself. Hopefully after this Friday we my be closer to having our television series reach distribution, I’m meeting with entertainer Larry Gatlin about hosting the series “American Town Portrait” with a 12 person Christian cast and crew. Please keep us in your prayers. Hopefully some day we will meet. If not here, then maybe upstairs. God Bless…
Best Regards,
Raine W. Clotfelter
US Naval Historian Artist
I am reading Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God and am sort of shocked to read on pg.17 where you write “Christians as diverse as Dante and Milton, Ignatius of Loyola and Jonathan Edwards…” Where the shock comes in is that you refer to Ignatius of Loyola as a Christian, this is stunning if I read you correctly. Please tell me you do not believe he is a Christian. His name and that of Jonathan Edwards do not belong in the same sentence
It would probably have been better to write, “Writers as diverse as Dante and Milton…” Ignatius was a thinker in the Christian tradition and would certainly have considered himself a Christian, but I was not expressing any view regarding his salvation.