Welcome to Na 2008
May 24 2008Welcome to the Na 2008 Liveblog. Approximately 3,500 singles and young married couples are crowding outside the doors here at the Louisville (pronunciation options: Looavul, Luavul, Loueville, Looaville, or Looeyville) Convention Center waiting to take their seats. Wait…it’s 7pm…the doors just opened…everyone is now rushing the convention center, trying to snag seats near the stage. In thirty minutes the conference officially kicks off.
I’ve been to a lot of Christian conferences, but this is my first Na conference and the first time I’ve experienced such an energetic, excited crowd. I wish you could hear the music and the voices that are filling this room right now. I wish you could feel the bass. My chair is shaking.
The theme of this year’s conference centers on the Word of God. Our conference guidebook summarizes the theme of the conference both in a single sentence and in two paragraphs.
The single-sentence summary:
“If the Bible really is God’s Word, Then we’re called to delight in it and obey it.”
The two-paragraph summary:
“For the next four days we’ll explore the certainty, sufficiency, and relevance of Scripture by letting Scripture speak for itself. Our hope and prayer is that after this encounter with God’s Word, we’ll never read our Bibles the same way again.
“We want to come face to face with the words of God, dig into them, be humbled by them, and let them become our joy and delight. And when we leave here we want to take what we’ve learned back to our local churches.”
This is a great conference theme. Over the next four days I’ll do my best to live-blog how this theme is being promoted, chiefly through the eight General Sessions where we’ll hear messages from Josh Harris, Mark Dever, Al Mohler, C.J. Mahaney, Eric Simmons, and John Piper.
Comments
I have two daughters and a son in law at NA and I will as well be tuning in to the live blog. Thanks for serving those of us who could not attend.
Al Pino on Sat May 24, 2008 at 7:04 pmCan’t wait for the conference sermons to start droppin’! I had planned to come down to Louisville all the way from ye olde London, but I was denied a visa :( On the bright side, me and my boys will be following the messages as they come out. Grace and peace
Douglas K. Adu-Boahen on Sat May 24, 2008 at 7:13 pmThanks for doing this for all of us who are unable to attend!
Julianne on Sat May 24, 2008 at 7:15 pmthanks for doing this for us OLD folks who couldn’t go along but can’t wait to benefit from the teachings at NA! May God bless your time there and bring forth much fruit to all who hear the Word of God.
diane on Sat May 24, 2008 at 7:57 pmthanks for doing the live blog! i just read it and felt like i was re-living NA!
Ann on Tue Jun 10, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Thank you very much for doing the live-blog, is really a blessing. I was suppost to be there with my wife (she’s interpreting into spanish) but I hurt my right knee and need it to stay home, so you know I be here every single second of this conference. Thank you very much.
Jose Sanchez on Sat May 24, 2008 at 6:53 pm