Two men, two servants of the Lord who have sought in their own generation to be able to share a vision of the Lord, to be able to teach his word faithfully, to present his gospel clearly,

and for us to be able to talk through their ministry,

what the Lord has taught them.

And at the end of the evening, we want you to walk away encouraged, edified, built up in your own faith.

We're quick to be able to point out we're not here to celebrate men, we're here to celebrate God and what

God does through his servants.

And so I've asked a good friend, Scott Anderson, who serves as the executive director at Desiring God Ministries there

in Minnesota to come down and he's been so gracious to be able to join us.

And we're just going to walk through some different questions

this evening, and hopefully the men will

feel the freedom to interact with one another a little bit and we'll see where the Lord and the

spirit takes us this evening. Scott coming to a Ligonier conference, about 10 years ago you were telling me that you came to a Ligonier

conference here in Orlando and that just locked in some things

theologically for you.

Yeah, it was Ligonier 2000

where this was just prior to my transition to Minneapolis.

I came to that event and the Lord met me in just powerful

ways and if any of you were there at that particular event, you may recall this was just

shortly after James Boyce's passing and there was something of a spirit of

solemnity and power that was in the air and that was at that event and God just sitting out at the

Orlando Convention Center met me in some just deeply powerful ways that sort

of crystallized some ministry transition in my own life and after that the Lord called me to

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