2015 RCF Conference
(The Reformed Congregational Fellowship involves some of our CCCC pastors and others. Co-Moderators of the group are CCCC pastors Paul Wanamaker and Kirk van der Swaagh. The fellowship meets each spring in New England. We are pleased to announce their conference, that others in the CCCC may wish to know about it and participate. — Editor)
Free Indeed!
In one of his debates with the Pharisees, Jesus promises that those who abide in his word will know the truth and the truth will set them free. He then goes on to assert that if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. The Apostle Paul exhorts the Galatians to Stand fast… in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
Freedom? Liberty? From what has the Christian been freed? How far does our freedom in Christ extend? What of the law? Is liberty the same as license? Does this liberty protect the conscience of the Christian? Is civil disobedience godly?
We invite you to the 2015 Reformed Congregational Fellowship Pastors’ Conference, April 14–16, 2015 at the Salvation Army Wonderland Conference Center, Sharon, Massachusetts. It is a pastors’ conference, but men and women who are not pastors desiring to dig deeper into spiritual truths are warmly welcome.
Six presentations by colleagues serving in the pastorate will be the stepping off point for a lively and collegial consideration of the Savoy Declaration’s, chapter 21, “Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience.” Titles include:
- The Divine Purchase: Redeemed from the Curse of the Law and This Present Evil World
- The Administration of the Covenant of Grace in the Ceremonial Law
- From Legal Obedience to Gospel Obedience: The Grace of God That Teaches Us to Say No to Ungodliness and Worldly Passions
- “He Who Was Free… Is a Slave of Christ”: The Use and Abuse of a Pauline Metaphor
- Jeremiah Burroughs and Liberty of Conscience: “Let not violence be used to force people to things spiritual that they know not.”
- Taking a Stand: Civil Disobedience and the Christian
We hope you will join us.
Your fellow servants,
Paul Wanamaker and Kirk van der Swaagh
For further information about RCF, go to www.reformedcongregational.org
For conference brochure, Click Here.
