A reasoned response to mass hysteria

I first met Dave Hunt at a prophecy conference at Calvary Chapel of Old Bridge, NJ in 1999. Having seen a number of his videos, I was nonetheless surprised to see how tall a man he was (and I'm 6' 2" myself)! And his hands were like baseball catcher's mitts. He looked good, having already had hip replacement surgery. Physically he came across like a rugged outdoorsman, someone you wouldn't be surprised to see hiking a treacherous mountain path (which I'm sure he had done, before and since then). He was quite warm and genial, and covered a variety of topics at the conference. I best remember him as being one of the ONLY sober voices out there regarding the imminent Y2K "crisis" which even many Christian alarmists were being swept up by. I purchased Dave Hunt's book that day, Y2K: A REASONED RESPONSE TO MASS HYSTERIA, and found it to be a well-documented refutation that this would be a global, national, or even local crisis. Very few stood with him in that assessment (there were opportunists selling 'survival kits' at the same prophecy conference!), but history has proven him right. It was very brave of him to subsequently take on Calvinism (and I'm sure it cost him a good deal of support), but it is important to root out any 'ism' that would attach itself (and ultimately try to supplant) the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.