The annual Shepherds' Conference got underway today at Grace Community Church (which also provides campus facilities for The Master's Seminary). There are over 3000 pastors and church leaders here attending sessions designed to encourage them to pursue a Biblical ministry. John MacArthur is doing regular general sessions and individual workshops are being done by the staff of Grace Community Church and the faculty of The Master's Seminary. Additionally, Dr. Al Mohler, Dr. R. C. Sproul, Dr. Mark Dever, and Dr. Ligon Duncan will be speaking in general sessions. Tim Challies is providing a great service to those who cannot attend by "love blogging" the sessions he attends.
One another issue, the papers and wire services were widely reporting a story in the Jerusalem Post yesterday that Dr. Jerry Falwell had made a statement that he now agreed that Jews could be saved apart from conversion to Christianity. The idea is that of a "dual covenant." This is the idea that Jews are saved by one covenant with God (apart from Christ and the Gospel) and that everyone else is responsible to respond to the Gospel and salvation through Christ. In his blog today, Dr. Mohler discusses the facts and demonstrates this story to be entirely false. It will be interesting to see if the Post prints a correction and discusses the actual source of their report, since according to Dr. Falwell, he has never met or spoken to the Rabbi (Aryeh Scheinberg) whom the Post quoted as the source of this information.
Well, for those at the Shepherds' Conference, stop by my office in the library and say hi. In normal conference tradition it rained during the set-up the last two days, great weather today, OK weather tomorrow and probably rain on Friday.
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