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Hi Everybody longer post today as it is a recap of the past couple of day at the conference.

I arrived back in Dunnellon last night a day earlier than I expected. Today was only going to be a travel day anyway.

As I had posted earlier I was a little disappointed with the first day and a half of the conference, but the final main speaker was excellent, Dr. Harry Reeder.

On Tuesday night Dr. Reeder shared and excellent message that every Pastor and lay person through out the world needs to hear. It was titled: Gospel Preaching in Three Directions It was a solid message on the importance of the Gospel message Preaching and teaching from 1 Corinthians 1:18
18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Simplified, and this is coming from the perspective of the preacher when preaching, the three directions to which the Gospel is to be preached are:

1)        Preach the Gospel to the unsaved.
2)        Preach the Gospel to the saved.
3)        Preach the Gospel to yourself.

He went on to say that preachers are not to change and repackage the Gospel to make it relevant to todays society. Basically there is no need to change the message of the Gospel so that people will accept it. (He dose not agree with the emergent thing happening in the church). He shared a number of things (I did not take notes during this service) and one thing that I remember easily is he pointed out for us to notice that the verse 1 Cor 1:18 says being saved it is in a present / active tense. Just a quick question here for you all, from this verse: What is the power of God? Once you get the proper answer, why would any one ever need to change it?

I have requested copies of the services at least on audio so I may be able to get copies into the hands of some of you who may wish to listen.

By the way the answer to the question What is the power of God? above is the message of the cross, the Gospel.

On Wednesday midmorning Dr. Reeder shared a message titled thoughts on: Gospel Preaching from 2 Timothy 3:14 - 17
14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
17so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

And

2 Timothy 4:1 5

41In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction. 3For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.


Basically from 2 Timothy 3:14-17 these were 7 key points that he wanted to emphasize from the text. Remember he is speaking to pastors and ministry leaders. I wont go into detail but I will list the 7 points and you can examine the text for yourselves.

The Message Preached (what the message should contain).

1.        A Gospel message
2.        A Christ centered message
3.        A God-given message
4.        A profitable message
5.        A life transforming message
6.        An equipping message
7.        The message is sufficient

Then from 2 Timothy 4:1-5
The Gospel Preacher / Messenger (the preachers responsibility).

1.        The felt presence of God
2.        The imminent return of Christ
3.        The judgment seat of God
4.        Diligent in preparation
5.        Determined and patient
6.        Sober minded and temperance
7.        Focused and purposed in ministry


That was the morning seminar then Wednesday afternoon Dr. Reeder shared from Acts 17:1- 8 a message titled: The Church as a Leadership Factory and Distribution Center.
I only have a few notes from this seminar as there was so much information it was hard to keep up with it all.

Acts 17:1-8
171When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. 2As his custom was, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. "This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ," he said. 4Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of God-fearing Greeks and not a few prominent women.
5But the Jews were jealous; so they rounded up some bad characters from the marketplace, formed a mob and started a riot in the city. They rushed to Jason's house in search of Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the crowd. 6But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting: "These men who have caused trouble all over the world have now come here, 7and Jason has welcomed them into his house. They are all defying Caesar's decrees, saying that there is another king, one called Jesus." 8When they heard this, the crowd and the city officials were thrown into turmoil.

Again looking at the text compare the following:

Building Leaders and Church Restoration
How Paul worked in establishing churches

1.        Gospel preaching & discipleship
2.        Church plant
3.        Effective caring loving Gospel ministry
4.        Leadership development

The four listed above Paul did during his first journey through the area but when he went back a second time he added this fifth item:

5.        Church revitalization

Also from this as the church builds new leaders the current leader must be in some ways a good coach, disciple mentor and be able to teach and instill within others proper Christian living and ministry: (Im not sure Im explaining this right but as leaders we need to reproduce ourselves.)

1.        Embodiment
2.        Education
3.        Equipping
4.        Empowerment
5.        Evaluation

Good leaders will do the following:

1.        Be learners < have a desire to learn and be teachable
2.        Seize personal learning moments < mistakes, trials, problems things we learn from
3.        Teach & coach
4.        Use meaningful teaching maxims
5.        Seize the learning moments of others

Those are the three 3 seminars that I heard from Dr. Reeder he did share one brief time in the late evening but I had already left. Hopefully I will receive audio copies of these seminars and I can then share them with you. Just let me know if you are interested.

All in all after a somewhat slow start and the business side of the conference aside it was a very profitable three days.

Okay to answer D4Js question about the continuing education requirements well, it is really more than just education, it is also about communication, keeping in touch with others in the ministry, praying together, building relationships. And as far as the education part there is an accountability to the church, each other and ourselves, so that we will not become lazy, so we do not to think we know it all, to stay sharp (iron sharpening iron).

I and going to be ending my fast later today as God has placed upon my heart a desire to take my family out for dinner and drink in the nourishment of blessing in my familys fellowship and love.

~Consider~