New Attitude has a new name, new lineup of speakers, and a new location. A lot is changing for 2009.

I first attended New Attitude in 2007. On my way to the conference, my heart was consumed with many things: friends, appearance, having a memorable experience, all things connected to my pride. I had high hopes to really grow in the Lord that weekend, but was distracted by all these things and so I wondered if God would even teach me anything.

When C.J. Mahaney preached his message on discerning your heart, though I didn’t know exactly what God was convicting me of, I felt the presence of sin in my heart. I went back to my room that night pretty discouraged and a little frightened, and spending some time to my self, I specifically felt pride in my heart--self-sufficient, self-glorifying, hostile, pride. The problem was, I didn’t know how to get rid of it, it seemed entrenched in my heart. My cousin had purchased C.J’s book Humility earlier that day, so I started to read it, and God comforted my heart that pride is a sin common to man. He began to bring me to true conviction and repentance through my understanding that the Lord paid for my sin of pride, and I could be humble myself through the power of the cross.

The knowledge of my need of the power of the gospel was so freeing. When God gave me true humility in light of the cross, a dependence and worthlessness without Jesus, a passion for the gospel overflowed into the rest of the year as I began to yearn for and love getting up early to spend significant time refocusing my heart by reading the Word of God.

Because of the truth being preached and the Holy Spirit at work, New Attitude sparked a life-brightening passion for the Word of God in me, which God has sustained and grown over the past two years. God met me that weekend right where my sinful heart was.