Afterward, the remaining four minutes or so was spent with Pastor Joe the Founder and Director providing the spirit and the testimony of the ministry to the audience. Since it was our first time, we chose to take advantage of this six-minute spot with a short two-minute video highlighting the general point and goal of the ministry. This also allowed us a perk and an opportunity to fill the role of a Presenter in the actual conference area. Apparently, since our ministry would be giving away such a substantial amount of literature, the G3 leadership permitted us a discounted rate as a Premium Exhibitor. Although we were certainly the brash newcomers intruding within a sphere outside of our normal mode of operation, The Lord seemed to extend to us a tremendous favor. Due to a strong recommendation by Chris Arnzen that our ministry be attending and represented, FirstLove made its first appearance as an Exhibitor alongside many of the other ministries that normally attend events such as these. Various speakers such as Justin Peters, Voddie Bachaum, Steve Lawson, and many others addressed great issues related to the “ subject of knowing God biblically and making healthy disciples of Jesus Christ”. With around 2,000 people in attendance, it was a rather sizeable event. When you subscribe, please add to your contacts to ensure that your newsletter doesn’t go into your spam folder.The 2018 G3 Conference was held at the Georgia International Convention Center located in Atlanta, Georgia. Subscribe to us on Patreon here and support our ministry. Also, you get other freebies for additional monthly pledges. If you like what you hear and desire to hear more, you can get the VIP full-length version for only $5.95 per month on Patreon. You can catch our free weekly episodes of the Polemics Report by subscribing at BTWN. The third, by signing up for our newsletter below.Īnd last, through direct support. The second, by following and retweeting our Twitter page. The first, by liking and following our new Facebook page, our home where we share new posts and interact with our members. We’re constantly getting kneecapped and constrained by tech companies who find our fidelity to the scripture and pursuit of truth to be intolerable, resulting in our reach being severely throttled.įor this reason, we ask you please consider supporting us a few different ways. A CALL TO ACTIONīringing you discernment news and commentary from a biblical, polemical perspective means it is tough out there on social media. Any copyrighted material displayed or referenced is done under the doctrine of fair use. It is not necessarily the opinion of Jordan Hall, any entity by which I am employed, any church at which I am a member, any church which I attend, or the educational institution at which I am enrolled. *Please note that the preceding is my personal opinion. So, Josh, Phil, my brothers, what is it? Will you make the declaration? Call this theological McCarthyism if you wish, but social justice seems like as big of a problem as Marxism to me. Everyone knows that the speakers listed above are able to eloquently speak about a range of theological issues other than social justice (which was not the theme of G3 and is not the theme of Shepcon) no one would expect them to go to G3 or Shepcon and advocate social justice. Nevertheless, “not being a heretic” has not historically been the only demand G3 and Shepcon have had of their conference speakers. īuice, Johnson, and MacArthur have gone out of their way to declare that social justice advocates are not neccessarily heretics. Although we can worship individually, God calls us to worship corporately and to assemble for the church to worship in song, in his Word, through prayer, and the public reading of Scripture. This recent (and surprisingly sudden) detour in quest of “social justice” is, I believe, the most subtle and dangerous threat so far. Worship - G3 Conference (2020) God saves his people and calls us into a relationship that involves the local church and worship. Over the years, I’ve fought a number of polemical battles against ideas that threaten the gospel. Of this quest, John MacArthur has written: Clearly these men view the quest for social justice in the visible church as a big problem. Notably, none of these men are among the 10,361 signers of the Dallas Statment on Social Justice and the Gospelwhich was recently released by Josh Buice with John MacArthur and Phil Johnson (John MacArthur’s right hand man) as initial signers.
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