Last month, Mark Dever and Ligon Duncan announced that the T4G conference planned for April 2022 in Louisville will be the last. The successful pastors’ conference spanned 16 years, gathering Reformed pastors from a range of denominations. The most recent in-person conference, in 2018, drew more than 12,000. Attendees have loved the preaching, the music, the books, and the fellowship. So it was a surprise to hear it’s coming to an end.
Sarah Zylstra explains how T4G got started, why it was a risk, and what has changed since.
In this episode:
2:42 How Ligon Duncan met Mark Dever
6:23 Meeting Al Mohler and C. J. Mahaney
9:55 The birth of T4G
12:04 Designing the conference
13:32 The first T4G
14:33 Growing T4G and becoming T3G
18:41 The growth of the Reformed resurgence
20:36 The splintering of unity in America and the Reformed fellowship
23:58 Memories
26:00 What T4G’s end means for the Reformed resurgence
26:46 T4G’s legacy
28:28 Looking ahead
Resources:
Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinists (2008) by Collin Hansen
The Final T4G by Collin Hansen
The Gospel Coalition