Together for the Gospel: Day Two

DAY TWO

Another excellent day of worship and challenging lectures. Sproul's lecture was clearly the best of the conference thus far, though the other gentlemen certainly did not disappoint. I was moved by the honesty and humility of all involved.

Best T4-G Day 2 Experience: Lunch with Sharper Iron guys. Great fellowship and stimulating conversation.

Best T4G-Day 2 McArthur Quote: Never offer Jesus as the person who can fulfill the fallen sinner’s desires. Jesus smashes the sinner’s self-indulgence, attacks his smugness, shatters his confidence in his religion, crushes him under the full weight of God and declares him guilty.

Best T4G-Day 2 Dever Quote: Pragmatism is a greater danger to the church than Open Theism will ever be.

Best T4G-Day 2 Duncan Quote: Ministers are always trying to get an interim report card. Our report card as pastors only comes on judgment day, never before.

Best T4G-Day 2 Sproul Quote: When I hear a preacher stand and say ‘God loves you unconditionally’ I maintain that such a person should be defrocked for such a violation of the teaching of God. What pagan, when hearing that, will not think ‘I have no need of repentance for my sins.’

Best T4G-Day 2 Mohler Quote:Does sin come with natural consequences? Of course it does, but those are not the consequences to fear. The consequence to fear is the wrath of God revealed against all mankind.

T4G-Day 2 Quotes Worth of Mention:

(1) There is a difference between human forgiveness and divine forgiveness and this distinction is important to know if we are to understand Scripture--we can forgive wrongs done to us but we cannot atone for them [Mohler].

(2) I don’t raise the dead. I just preach the truth [MacArthur].

(3) When I know I’m preaching to spiritual corpses, I don’t have to worry about how to make them believe. All I have to do is give them the gospel, pray for them, and love them [Dever].

(4) Hard preaching makes soft hearts. Soft preaching makes hard hearts [MacArthur].

(5) The sufficiency of Christ is the only help we have, and it is help enough [Sproul].