I got a few emails asking why I haven’t been posting. Well I didn’t think anyone had been reading this lately because I haven’t gotten many people talking on here. I am sure it has to do with the boring content I’ve also been trying to recover from the conference. I got to see Pastor Butler again and finally meet Mark Horne. I appreciated our conversations and his friendly demeanor. I also enjoyed getting to know Rev. John Barach better. He came over Wednesday night and stayed into the wee hours. I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time–and I am a laugher. I also got to see the Schlissel gals, and I finally got to see Mike Sosa. It was also good to see Kat again and meet new friends and pastors.

Overall, this was the best conference we’ve ever had here. I believe this was a landmark conference. Wilkin’s was his usual flamethrower self. Schlissel was amazing in the delivery of great content. Wilson was his usual self. He has the respect of those men so much that they hang on his every word. However, I think our own blogging Barach was the jewel of the conference. I told him that it was because of his ignorance that he was able to say all the things he said. I don’t think he knew what he was stepping into, and I honestly don’t believe he understood how important his message was to these men. I think he actually set Wilkins up to be able to say the things he did in the conference’s final lecture. You see, the demographic of the conference was mostly Southern Presbyterian pastors. These men have the systematic theology down, but for the most part, they do not understand the covenant as the Continental Reformers did. Southern Presbyterianism has, for the most part, inherited a lower view of the covenant which I think is due to Puritanism and revivalism. The cry I repeatedly heard these godly Southern Presbyterian pastors yelp was, “If this is true, if what he is saying is right, then it makes sense of so many passages.” It was hard not to get choked up hearing that over and over. These men had struggled to understand Scripture in light of their Reformed systematic, but they couldn’t because something was missing–understanding the objectivity of the covenant and its conditionality. As my friend Heidi’s pastor said to me, “I have a lot to bring back home.” Many of these men are bring a lot BACK HOME. The tide is turning…