Too often the gospel becomes abstract doctrines we’re supposed to believe instead of the living Lord Jesus himself, present in his Word. When that happens, then the Christian life becomes unreal as well. We’re left alone with the law as an ideal that we have to make real by our works. Christianity becomes mere talk that has no connection with reality at all.
This conference takes us back to the gospel of the Real Presence of the incarnate Jesus in Word and Sacrament, to give us his life to be our life. When we die with Christ by faith, we find ourselves in this world as it really is, fallen but his, preserved by him for redemption in Christ. Jesus gives us a real life to live in this world as the Body of Christ, to give ourselves away in love to our neighbors in our vocations and to bear witness to the world at large that it still is God’s world.
Presenters include Dr. Jonathan Sorum speaking on “Following Jesus: Bonhoeffer’s Recovery of the Reality of the Christian Life,” Dr. Robert Benne on “The Church’s Public Witness,” and Pastor Jaynan Egland as the Banquet Speaker for Saturday evening. Information on other speakers will be forthcoming.
Our event will take place immediately before the LCMC Annual Gathering in Dallas on October 4 – 7 and in the same hotel and conference center (Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center). We invite you to join us for this important conference. Keep watching our website for more information.
Place: Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center
7600 John Q Hammons Dr.
Frisco, TX 75034
Date: Oct. 3 - 4
Time: Saturday: 1 – 8 p.m.
Sunday: 2 – 4:30 p.m.
Click here to register online: https://co.clickandpledge.com/sp/d2/default.aspx?wid=108917
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