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Highlights from the 2008 20/20 Collegiate Conference, “Missio Dei.” If you haven’t heard, Mark Driscoll is among those who have committed to be our guests at the 2009 20/20 conference, with the theme “The Gospel Comes to Life.” Click here to learn more about it.

Mahaney opens conference, contemplates Christ’s sin-bearing

by Lauren Crane

There is no comparison between how Christ felt as he bore humanity’s sin and any human situation, C.J. Mahaney said at Southeastern Smeinary’s annual “20/20 Collegaite Conference” February 1.

Mahaney, a longtime pastor and leader of Sovereign Grace Ministries, said he had sought divine assistance to understand what it meant for Christ to take away and bear the sins of humanity. The conference, which is an annual event geared toward college students and young adults, had the theme of Missio Dei this year, which means “the mission of God.” Mahaney opened the two-day conference as the first speaker on Friday evening.

Conference invites students to join in God’s mission by sharing Gospel with the world

 

Passion for people who don’t know Christ was the theme reverberating throughout Southeastern’s recent 20/20 Collegiate Conference: Missio Dei.

The fourth annual conference, which spanned two days on February 2-3, focused on God’s mission of spreading the Gospel – the message of the gift of salvation – to those who have not yet heard.

“God’s not interested in being a part of your life,” said J.D. Greear, plenary speaker at the conference and pastor of The Summit Church in Durham, N.C. “Until God is at the center of your life, until your story has been wrapped up in his story, until you see yourself wrapped up in him…Ultimately, no matter how Christian you seem, you haven’t gotten into the story God has been telling throughout the Bible, and that is the story of him.”

God receives praise through life and death of Jim Elliot

Jim Elliot said he was just a nobody trying to exalt Somebody.

Fifty-two years after his death, the well-known missionary to the Huaorani tribe of Ecuador continues to make the Lord’s name great in the Earth as his efforts and story affects people even today.

“The Lord who is great and greatly to be praised is praised more tonight because of men like Jim Elliot,” said Daniel Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Akin’s message detailing the life and ministry of Elliot was given as the second message of Southeastern’s annual “20/20 Collegiate Conference.”