T4G '08 Duncanian Debrief, part one

Thanks again to all of you who have blogged about, or emailed us, or written comments here on the T4G site about your experience at T4G last week. That you have been helped and encouraged brings us much joy because our desire and aim was bound up in serving you and encouraging radically Gospel-oriented life and ministry.

For those of you interested, Tim Challies has a good roundup of T4G resources here. The Christian Post weighed in on T4G here. Collin Hansen (Christianity Today) has offered his account here. Ken Sande (Peacemaker Ministries) gives his take here. And Marshall Shelley (Leadership) submits his mostly positive assessment here.

I plan to walk through a review of T4G here on the blog over the next few days (and maybe weeks) and share some things I learned, and comment upon some particularly meaningful points of edification of which I was a beneficiary.

T4G '08 Booklist

A bunch of you have asked for a list of the books that we gave away at T4G last week. Matt Schmucker has come to my rescue with the list. Thanks Matt! Oky friends, here it is:

T4G Books

One of the things i love about T4G is that pastors get lots of really good books, really good books for free! In fact, when you come to T4G, you pretty much make your registration costs back in books. I loved this picture of the stack of T4G book giveaways, by Peter Privitera at "Crossway Life."

Gratefulness

Friends, just a quick word of thanks to all of you who joined us for T4G’08. I’ll be doing some reflecting on what happened in our midst last week, in the days to come on this blog. But for now, let me simply express (on behalf of all of us who had the privilege of serving you at T4G) my appreciation for your fellowship with us in Louisville. Your fellow servant, Ligon

Welcome to Louisville! Pray for our time

wLess than 48 hours.  That’s not much time together every other year, but praise God for the fruit that He has given us over these last two years from the small investment of time we made in April of 2006. 

Now, we’re here again.  And more have joined us.  (And, we’re glad to say, in a larger space!)  Much will be the same, but there will be a few new things.  Not least among those is a GREATLY expanded bookstore, which we’re sure pastors will appreciate.

Pray for us as we finish preparing our messages.  And thank God for the hundreds of volunteers who got here at their own expense yesterday morning in order to do set up for the bookstore, prepare registration today, and do other things to enable us to meet together in a way that we hope to you   will just seem natural and effortless.  OK, almost effortless.  I guess you did have to get to Louisville!  If you can find a volunteer at Registration, the bookstore or elsewhere to thank, thank them, too!

Again, on behalf of Ligon, CJ & Al, welcome to Louisville.  We look forward to once again being together for the Gospel!

Pray for us

We (the speakers) are all working on our messages.  Pray for us.  And pray for our time together next week.  Many thanks!  We’re looking forward to seeing all 5,000 of you there, together for the Gospel!