I spoke at Xpose Preaching Conference on Friday and Saturday in Melbourne. The other speaker was John Chapman. Along with Don Carson, John Chapman is for me the scariest person to have to share the platform with. But he was lovely. And very funny.
His insights and encouragements were priceless:
- If you get bored of the gospel you might as well blow your brains out. I am full convinced that the gospel changes people's lives.
- The day of evangelising people who are already in the pews is over. And there's only so many times our people can invite people to evangelistic programs we put on. We need to get back to what we're good at: one to one evangelism.
- Graeme Goldsworthy is brilliant, it's just that he's impossible to read. Read Vaughan Roberts instead.
- A true convert is as tough as a Jerusalem artichoke - you can't knock em off with a stick. In my day, when you got saved they'd give you a Bible: 'Go teach Sunday, the prayer meeting's on Friday, get on with the normal Christian life'.
- Tim Keller knows more in his little toenail that I do in my whole body. He's so good it's discouraging to listen to!
- Good preaching model: Rodney Chiswell from St Peters Tamworth.
