New Resources from the Minneapolis Gathering
Many of you have asked for resources that were referenced by speakers at the Minneapolis Gathering. We have created a Resources section on the August Gathering page where you can find some of the requested information. We have posted two new items there today, and will continue to add to it in the weeks to come.
One resource you’ve been asking for is the John Stott quotation Jim Singleton referenced. We are publishing it below and on the Documents & Resources page.
John Stott, one of the great voices of Evangelicalism, died recently. He was the essential author of the Lausanne Covenant — which was an evangelical counter to the World Council of Churches. Stott was invited to address the WCC for ten minutes in 1975 to explain Lausanne. In his brief address Stott urged them to recover five things he believed they had lost:
1) The essential lostness of humanity
2) Confidence in the truth, relevance, and power of the Gospel to save
3) The Uniqueness of Jesus (against the syncretism of our time)
4) The Urgency of evangelism (along with the urgency of justice)
5) A personal experience of Jesus Christ
Krister Stendahl, a Swedish theologian who was teaching at Harvard, leaned over to Stott after he was finished and said, “I did not agree with one word you said!” (Roger Steer, Basic Christian: The Inside Story of John Stott, 171).
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thanks!
Thank you, Fellowship leaders, for assembling these important resources! I am presently preaching on the Fruit of the Holy Spirit. This next Lord’s Day the topic is patience.
I need to “practice what I preach”! I wonder if dates & locations for the Regional Gatherings are to be announced soon.
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Keep up the good work of following the Holy Spirit’s leading as we step into a new, more faithful, future in proclaiming the transforming power of the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!
In Christ’s Peace & Hope,
David L. Bierschwale
Our church in Perryville, Missouri is going through the rigors of deciding what to do. I am interested in the concept of the new denomination to give those of us an alternative to the new nFOG and the other associated changes. We were in the process of getting excited about building a new church and am interested in the arrangement the new denomination would have with PCUSA to allow us to keep the property. Our church is probably going to fall apart if something is not done soon. Can you give me any news or a heads-up I can share with the folks?
Ron,
There will probably be no wholesale ‘arrangement’ with the PC(USA) to keep property unless something is done at the next GA. My advice is to do nothing about a building at this time, nor think about doing a building fund campaign until the church decides what it wants to do about staying in the PC(USA).
Even then, it may wind up you’ll have to negotiate with your local presbytery for dismissal. The NRB as described by the Fellowship may make it easier to be dismissed to it, but property will be a separate issue for now.
I would definitely keep an eye open for a regional Fellowship meeting and then make plans to attend so you will get the best information possible.
Any idea when the videos of the sessions will be available online? Some from our congregation were in Minneapolis and others in our church are anxiously awaiting the videos.
We hope they will be available this week.
As a serving elder in the Centrel Washington Pres. I have been looking into the divisions that the church has gone though in the past and I have an idea to put forward. has anyboby thought about patitioning the GA for a National Synod.
In the 1700’s after the Great Awakening a group of churchs I think it was in New York ask for and got thier own synod on the grounds of theological differances I believe
there could be some very good benifits from doing this like everybobies favorite subject Per-Capita if we are formed under a synod stucture like this our funds could be sent to the fellowship and sent on to our Missionaries and Disaster Releef fund and we could be sure that our fund were not be used for thing we don’t agree on.
then the matter of property and other thing can be handled more well mannerd way
Also as people of the word we should behave is such. this would allow for an orderly and prinicapeled transformation more like what Jesus would do.
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