Don't Waste This Opportunity

                Five weeks ago I first posted on John MacArthur's upcoming Shepherd's Conference....and I posted again on it four weeks ago....and then three....and then two....all Wednesdays....and now it is one week until the three day conference begins on March sixth....Lord willing.
                The schedule is out. You can Google it easily enough if you care to see it. John MacArthur and John Piper headline it but there are over two dozen other speakers....over those three days....comprised of twelve general sessions....and two afternoons of breakout sessions....and an hour long Q&A with MacArthur and Piper. The conference theme is....Truth Triumphs.
                 My hope was that God would have some last minute changes in store....my thinking being....when you have a couple of thousand pastors gathered together....don't waste that opportunity. Teaching sessions are fine....and greatly needed in a multi-lap running race....but this friends is the bell lap. Now I don't know how long that lap is....it might be all around the perimeter of the country....but I know this....it's the last lap....the last missionary journey to use that figurative language.
                 When I began these posts on the Shepherd's Conference I had heard nothing of the controversy over Alistair Begg....who was to be a main speaker at the conference....but withdrew over that controversy....so as not to be a distraction....or so it has been reported. A one-hour Q&A is not long enough but for a few short questions and answers. Will either John MacArthur or John Piper deviate from their assigned general session topics?
                 The conference start is one day after what has become known in America's political party primary season as....Super Tuesday. John Piper is rather famous for a conference talk he once gave....and a book by the same name.....and small evangelism pamphlets of the same name....of which I still have a couple dozen left to give away....Don't Waste Your Life.
                  Well John Piper has two scheduled general session talks. I hope that he is free to speak on where the Holy Spirit leads him. Don't waste this opportunity Pastor John! The last paragraph in little pamphlet reads...."Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain."