Welcome to the Gospel Coalition podcast, equipping the next generation of believers,

pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

As we celebrate the Gospel Coalition's 20th anniversary and 10th national conference, we want to look back

to TGC's first event, a 2007 conference called Tethered to the Center. The following is a keynote

address from TGC's co-founder, Tim Keller. First Peter, Donne read from 1st Corinthians 15 to say, here's what the gospel is.

I'm here to try to talk to you about what does ministry shaped by the gospel, profoundly

shaped by the gospel, look like. First Peter, you know, Peter was not writing to the

same situation Paul was writing to with the Corinthians. Paul

was writing into a situation where there was doctrinal fractiousness and divisions and party spirit

and so on. And of course, Peter, as you know, was speaking to a persecuted church and a church

which was both passively and actively persecuted,

and also passively, they were actually being beset by a culture around them. They weren't

sure how to relate to with very different values. And so, of course, you can never divide

doctrinal from practical issues. And however, I would say that Peter is less interested

than Paul and Corinthians to expound the content of the gospel as to constantly refer to

its features but to show how that should shape the way in which we live and how the way

it should shape our ministry and and how the church should operate as a community And so when I was looking through 1 Peter 1 and 2, I looked for seven, I found seven features

that I think Peter uses to describe the gospel that then he boots off of during the rest

of the epistle to use to say if that's the case

and here's the implication for ministry.

I read Don's, I knew about Don's talk before I was putting my own talk together so there's

resonant, everything in these seven points are going to be, have already been explicated by

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