On January 7-8 of next year, the Preserving the Truth Conference: A Symposium on Biblical Separation, will be held at First Baptist Church of Troy Michigan. Two of the current faculty at Detroit Baptist Seminary (Dave Doran and Bruce Compton) will be presenting, and also two graduates (Michael Riley and Matt Postiff). I believe that this conference will help to populate an under-represented bloc in a crowded conference circuit--the bloc situated between a fundamentalism that is culturally conservative and self-consciously separatist but theologically weak, and an evangelicalism that is theologically conservative but culturally lax and insufficiently concerned with ecclesiastical separation.
The organizers of this conference are convinced that cultural conservatism, robust theology, and careful separatism can and ought to co-exist. They futher believe that centering on the cardinal issues of the gospel need not result in the shrugging off of peripheral issues such as young earth creationism, cessationism, conservative worship, and dispensationalism as expendable to the life of the church.
I heartily recommend the conference and trust that as many of you as can will attend.
MAS
1 comments:
Hi Mark:
At the upcoming PTC I am interested in seeing how these "peripheral" but not "expendable" issues are handled in their relationship to gospel and separation. I agree that they are peripheral and are not expendable. This becomes important to guys like me who might have different or slightly differing/less dogmatic views in the areas singled out – young earth creationism, cessationism, conservative worship, and dispensationalism. Are there established/accepted positions on these which are part of the truth that needs to be preserved or simply pre-conference points of interest? In other words, how peripheral and in what way are they? I wish I could be there for the conference but look forward to hearing the audio when it’s made available.
Steve
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