On May 20, 2000, eighteen years ago today, you preached the famous “seashells sermon” in Memphis. Pastor John, I know you’ll never forget that moment. You were preaching outside to forty thousand college students at the fourth Passion Conference, then called OneDay. It became, of course, one of your most influential sermons. There you introduced us to the world of Bob and Penny and their seashell collection, and pled with the students: “Don’t waste your life.” That plea would become the title of your book released in 2003, which became a bestselling book that has now sold over 650,000 copies and has become a staple graduation gift handed out to tens of thousands of high school and college graduates. Reflecting back eighteen years to that message in Memphis, what do you remember from OneDay 2000? Did the message seem particularly different to you? What was your experience of it? What surprises you about the message now? And finally, being different from your other books, how do you think the book fits inside your corpus of writings? EPISODE 1200: https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/reflections-on-the-seashells-sermon-18-years-later Related Resources: Original Sermon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XajXpH908Yg Seashells Sermon Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfpmbmsvu3A Don't Waste Your Life Sermon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou8y_0377wE Don't Waste Your Life Book: https://www.desiringgod.org/books/dont-waste-your-life Find other recent and popular Ask Pastor John episodes, http://desiringgod.org/ask-pastor-john