The Gospel Coalition Conference: Day 2, What is the Gospel Coalition?

Day 2 here at The Gospel Coalition Conference began with a brief informational session by D.A Carson addressing the question, "What is the Gospel Coalition?" Here are my notes:Decades ago there was a tightly knit evangelical center in America, led by the likes of Carl F.H. Henry, Christianity Today, etc. This center is lacking today.Concerned over the lack of this center, D.A. Carson & Tim Keller desired to rally a new generation of Christians around the gospel.  This led to many conversations between Carson & Keller and a pulling together of 40-50 "stakeholder" pastors of a variety of backgrounds, races, and churches to help form a coalition robustly centered on the gospel.The Gospel Coalition (G.C.) overlaps with, yet is distinct in intention from other organizations such as Together For The Gospel, Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, etc. The G.C. is focused on asking the strategic question, "What can we do to promote a robust, gospel-centered evangelical center in our increasingly diverse country, particularly for the arising generation?"Out of a desire to start the public face of this coalition off on a good foot, this conference was not advertised and was kept to 500 attendees.The G.C. has spent several years drafting some "Foundational Documents," including:-A Preamble Concerning The Gospel-A Confessional Statement-A Theological Vision For MinistryIn a few weeks these documents, along with audio from the conference sessions, will be available online for free (all of us at the conference received these Foundational Documents and I can tell you that they are quite good).Over the coming months and years the G.C. will be finding its way and shaping its mission and purposes as the coalition further develops.