Together for the Gospel

There will be a meeting of some of the sharpest minds and most passionate preachers of evangelicalism in Louisville next year.  The "Together for the Gospel" conference is coming.  It runs from April 26-28 and includes a who's who of mostly reformed types.

> Mark Dever is pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington D.C and founder of 9Marks Ministries.
> Ligon Duncan is the pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, MS.
> C.J. Mahaney is founding pastor of the church that Joshua Harris now pastors, Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, MD.  C.J. now runs Sovereign Grace Ministries, a church planting movement of reformedish baptistish charismaticish churches.
> Al Mohler is the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY.  He also writes the world's longest blog, has a second blog, speaks at like a gozillion places a year, you know the drill.
> John MacArthur is long time pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, CA and teacher on the Grace to You radio show.  He has written too many books to list.
> John Piper is pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN, founder of Desiring God Ministries which includes conferences, articles, books, sermons, curriculum, poetry, devotions, and trained lemurs.
> R.C. Sproul is the teacher of Ligonier Ministries which includes all sorts of valuable resources on philosophy, theology, biblical studies, and Columbo.

Please do yourself a favor and watch a video discussion promoting the conference.  It's really remarkable because you get to see Al Mohler make jokes (yes, he can be funny) and see C.J. Mahaney laugh.  If you have never seen and heard C.J. laugh you are missing out on a lot.  (FYI, Joshua Harris has spent way too much time with C.J. because they laugh exactly the same.  So if they are in the same room, it's really bizarre to hear.)

Am I going?  Dunno.  I've wanted to since I first heard about it a couple of months ago.  But I've heard these guys enough to feel like I can anticipate what they will say.  And if they were reading their response to my previous sentence would be that we always need a refresher on the gospel.  Yeah, I know.

Comments

[Big Chris]

CJ's laugh is contagious. Beyond that, he can go from full out laughter to very intense and serious in amazingly little time. I got to see him harass Wayne Grudem a while back and they bantered back and forth and it was really funny to observe. CJ know how to not take himself too seriously, but to take God very seriously.

Big Chris
Because I said so

[Marty Duren]

When do Jerry Vines and Adrian Rogers speak? ;^)

[Deepak Reju]

Rumor has it that the one speaker who said no to coming to the conference is Don Carson. After everyone else said "Yes" they went back to Dr. Carson and he still said "no!" What's up with that?

[Steve McCoy]

Didn't know that. He must be writing a book that week. ;)

[Formica Dinette]

They probably wouldn't let Carson preach from the TNIV.

[Joe Thorn]

Thanks for the heads up Steve. I can't remember who first told me about it, so I credited you on my blog. If Rogers or Vines was going to be there I wouldn't. But as it is, I am thinking of getting some leaders/future leaders from Grace to go. Could be cool.

[Steve McCoy]

Agreed Joe.

[Matt]

Adrian Rogers bores me to no end, but is there anything wrong with his theology? I ask out of curiousity, not antagonism.

I can also say that his successor is far more...um...narrow-minded than he has ever thought to be.

[Joe Thorn]

He's orthodox and evangelical. So that much we're good on, beyond that I have theological issues with him.

[Matt]

Reckon I would, too, to say nothing of the fact that he's likely pretty stuck in his ways. Then again, I suppose I am, too, in my own sense.

[Matt Schmucker]

Regarding Don Carson...
He is a very talented brother who is much in demand. Don was unable to participate because of his schedule, certainly not for any other reason. Hope this clears up that "rumor" and I hope pastors can join us in Louisville.

Blessings!
Matt

[Steve McCoy]

Matt, tell Dee to stop his gossiping. :)

Great to have you reading here brother.