T4G Thoughts - Day #3

Hallelujah
All I have is Christ
Hallelujah
Jesus is my life...

It's already over! I realize that I didn't link to any of the speaker's sermons... so HERE it is!

Ligor Duncan started us off with a sermon on Church Fathers. I couldn't keep up, I was so tired. I was very thankful that the last set of books we got were smaller ones. Our total free book count ended up at 21 books. I'll put them up in my book list, but I haven't read a lot of them yet so I cannot comment. I also bought some books, now I need to figure out shelving again! ....

Anyways, the next speaker was Matt Chandler. He is an interesting fellow. I wouldn't say he is the deepest theologian, but he has a certain passion to him, a realness in His relationship with Christ. When he says that Christ dwells in him, and he dwells in Christ... you can see it. A very dynamic speaker, it will be very interesting to see how God works in his life as he matures as a pastor.

Our final speaker of the day was C. J. Mahaney, the pastor-athlete. He was preaching on effective pastoring, so the message wasn't exactly aimed at me. I still resounded a lot with his message. It is kind of insane, how we can come up with these gimmicks and tricks to peddle the gospel. What of its saving power? We can become all things to all people, but we must never change the message!

Immediately after the message, we high-tailed it out of Dodge. It still took us 12 hours to get home. We made a couple pit stops including:
- Gas
- Lunch at KFC: Double-Down and Mountain Dews all around.
- Dunkin' Donuts: Coffee
- Dick's Sporting Goods: Softball gear
- Target: Candy
- Toys R' Us: Nerf guns
- Tim Hortons: Dinner in Canada at 1-2am.
- Taking pictures of that massive Jesus idol. (check out fb.)

It was a great conference. It is inspiring to see so many people worshiping God. Let us all be contenders of the faith! :)