A compassionate heart

But at age 45, writer David Chilton's has beat for the last time | Pamela Johnson

David Chilton, pastor and writer from Diamond Springs, Calif., died March 7. A stroke and heart attack three years ago had ravaged the energetic and often controversial thinker, leaving him in a coma for more than a month and prompting medical experts to suggest he would never speak again--much less carry on a preaching and writing ministry.

Indeed, Mr. Chilton's life was profoundly different after what he described to WORLD readers as a "near-death" experience. Known to some as a hard-nosed postmillennialist, reconstructionist, and proponent of Reformed thinking, he established close fellowship with a number of friends in the charismatic community. He also toyed with the idea of joining the Orthodox Church, backing off from actually doing so only at the last moment. Friends wondered whether the sickness had stripped away his roots.

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