Friday, September 16, 2005 at 7:30
Location: Montgomery College
I. A CENTERED FAITH: THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH, POST-MODERNITY, AND
POST-CONSERVATIVE EVANGELICALISM
In facing the present the evangelical church centers her faith and practices in
accordance with the Gospel. In the face of many contesting claims evangelicals
respond to post-modernity and post-conservative evangelicals by defining the
Gospel afresh, by committing themselves to the Gospel, by critically evaluating
perspectives on the Gospel, by engaging with ecclesiastical and societal
traditions, by affirming and celebrating the Gospel, and by living as
Gospel-centered Christians. When Evangelicals understand and confront the real
challenges of their times, they reaffirm the Gospel.
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Saturday, September 17, 2005 at 10:00 a.m.
Location: Montgomery College
II. CENTERING THE GOSPEL: PART I -- THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH AND HER CONFESSION
THAT GOD IS THE CREATOR
The meta-narrative of Scripture opens on a vista of God as the Creator. At
issue are not the contested claims of evolution, but of one's starting point.
The basic belief in the existence of a gracious Creator opens up a perspective
on God, the world, and human existence. When Evangelicals are united in their
confession in God as Creator, they reaffirm the Gospel.
Saturday, September 17, 2005 at 1:00 p.m.
Location: Montgomery College
III. CENTERING THE GOSPEL: PART II -- THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH AND THE TWO
TESTAMENTS
Evangelicals are divided on the relationship between the two testaments. The
practical demise of the Old Testament has reduced the Gospel to a Jesus'
lordship debate, to a search for the historical Jesus, to a focus on the
Israel-Church question, to a loss of the purpose and mission of the church, and
to an individualistic experience of the Gospel. When Evangelicals are coming
together to study the multi-faceted relationships between the two testaments,
they reaffirm the Gospel.
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Sunday, September 18, 2005 at 10:30 a.m.
Gaithersburg Community Church (Bohrer Park)
IV. CENTERING THE GOSPEL: PART III -- THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH AND THE FUTURE.
The reduction of the Gospel has also taken away the rich perspectives offered
by the Gospel. Both testaments witness to the pattern of suffering (discipline),
perseverance, character, and hope. A renewed embrace of the Gospel encourages
the acceptance of reality, tensions (paradoxes), and of a perspective that is
transformed by a vision of the reality that the Lord has prepared for us when he
renews creation and places a new community within the newly created order. When
Evangelicals are living with hope, they reaffirm the Gospel.
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