It’s late Wednesday night - actually early Thursday morning and I just can’t put into words what RC Sproul’s message was like today. You can read about it from Challies here. But I want to try and summarize what it meant for me as a church planter.

I have shared the story recently with several people of an experience with a screaming child in a restaurant and how the sound of that has been indelibly etched onto my soul as a metaphor of what people who don’t know Jesus face. And today, I heard a message that put it into theological terms in a way I don’t think I could have ever done.

I said after RC was done, that they could close the conference down and move on. We had heard what God has brought us to hear. Now don’t get me wrong, Al Mohler was good and he exhorted us to not give an inch on substitutionary atonement. And for those who know me, the one guy in life I have a serious man crush on is speaking here in just a little while (Piper). Also, I can’t wait for Mahaney.

But Sproul will take the cake. And combined with Thabiti’s message on ethnicity instead of race, I leave here changed and energize in ways I can’t describe right now for the task ahead of me in the next twelve months.

If you don’t go to conferences, you need to because you are robbing your soul. You simply flat out are. And you should come in groups because there is nothing like experiencing all of this is a group setting. I love it.

By the way, you can get the audio for the sessions here:

Have to go to bed now! I need to be fresh so I can fully express my man crush at 8:00 am when Piper takes the stage.