Theological Conferences Approaching

February 21st, 2008 by

This year there will be two theological conferences put on by people who share our understanding of God, Jesus, and the gospel of the kingdom.

The first is the 17th annual Theological Conference put on by Sir Anthony Buzzard and Restoration Fellowship. It will be held at Simpsonwood Conference Center in Norcross, GA (transportation from the airport is provided). The conference starts in the early evening on Sunday, April 27th and ends at lunch on Wednesday, April 30th. Conference speakers include Sir Anthony Buzzard, Chuck Jones, Jesse Acuff, Sean Finnegan, possibly Alex Hall, possibly John Obelenus, and others. more information here

This year marks the first ever theological conference in Australia to be coordinated by Greg Deuble, author of They Never Told Me This in Church: A Call to Read the Bible with New Eyes. The theme is “The Creed of Jesus” and it will be held at the Virginia Palms Conference Center near Brisbane in Australia. The conference starts on Friday morning, July 18th, and concludes Sunday afternoon, July 20th. Speakers include Sir Anthony Buzzard, Greg Deuble, Frank Selch, Steve Cook, Cliff York, Mark Scull, and Paul Herring. To see the attractive brochure giving more details, please click here.

I highly encourage you to attend one or both of these conferences in order to be part of the cutting edge of unitarian and kingdom of God theology. Attendance at either will be sure to stretch you a bit but the experience is worthwhile and it is always so exciting to see all the people who attend from all over the world and hear their stories of faith. Often people speak of feeling all alone because of their non-trinitarian beliefs and how their search for truth resulted in their expulsion from the church. It is sad to hear this same story over and again but it is so great to be able to encourage other truth seekers to continue on in the Abrahamic faith.

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11 Responses to “Theological Conferences Approaching”

  1. on 21 Feb 2008 at 6:40 am1 Steve

    Sean,

    Thanks for promoting our conference in Australia. We are all very excited about it. However, that link to the brochure appears not to be working.

  2. on 21 Feb 2008 at 8:25 am2 Sean

    No problem Steve. I’m very excited to see what is happening over in Australia. The link is fixed. Also, your bio says that you do work in Pakistan. What exactly do you do? Is the conference going to be recorded?

  3. on 21 Feb 2008 at 3:44 pm3 Steve

    Sean,

    The conference will be recorded and I expect recordings will then be available on a website.

    Since 2003 I have been involved with church planting in Pakistan. I have been there 4 times during that period and we have baptised more than 800 people who believe in one God and the kingdom of God on earth, and now have churches in several parts of the country. We have also translated Anthony Buzzard’s book on the Trinity into Urdu and that has been extremely helpful in bringing several pastors in mainstream denominations around to a better way of thinking about God.

  4. on 21 Feb 2008 at 6:15 pm4 Sean

    Hallelujah…great to hear what God is doing through you to preach the gospel of the kingdom and the creed of Jesus.

  5. on 22 Feb 2008 at 12:26 pm5 prita

    Hi Sean – When you refer to “creed of Jesus” are you referring to the book The Jesus Creed” by Scot McKnight?

  6. on 22 Feb 2008 at 12:32 pm6 JohnO

    Prita,

    No he is referring to the Shema (Deut 6 and Mk 12)… Scot McKnight is a good author, though I haven’t read that book of his.

  7. on 22 Feb 2008 at 1:08 pm7 prita

    It’s very good and of couse uses the title The Jesus Creed which refers as you say to the Shema.

  8. on 22 Feb 2008 at 1:18 pm8 Dustin Smith

    I got this email from Anthony:

    “Speakers are Sean, Chuck Jones, Ray, Kent, Dan Gill, not sure about Alex, Victor I hope…”

    I will also be speaking.

    Dustin Smith

  9. on 22 Feb 2008 at 5:24 pm9 Sean

    Ray is Ray Faircloth and Kent is Kent Ross?

  10. on 22 Feb 2008 at 5:26 pm10 Sean

    prita,

    you may be interested in this short article called Jesus Confirmed the Shema

  11. on 22 Feb 2008 at 5:28 pm11 Steve

    prita,

    Scott McKinght (“The Jesus Creed”) does a nice job of demonstrating that for Jesus the commandment to love God (part of the shema) was connected to the commandment to love others.

    However, he doesn’t deal with the theological implications of the first part of the shema (“the Lord is one”). It’s a practical book, not a theological one, but excellent all the same and one that I recommend.

    The theme for the Australian conference was taken from the subtitle of Anthony Buzzard’s latest book “Jesus was not a trinitarian: a call to return to the creed of Jesus”.

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