In the final session Terry Virgo spoke about Philip from Acts 8:4-19, 26-40. I was shattered at this point so was practically falling asleep, but the main point was to ask the question – What kind of Christ? – what Christ do we preach?
- Rooted in Old Testament revelations
- Rooted in the Cross, in Penal Substitutionary Atonement
- Jesus who reigns and brings good news of a Kingdom
- Jesus who heals
- Expects a whole-hearted response (baptism)
- Brings Joy to a city
During this time I started to collect my thoughts about New Frontiers and the Together on a Mission 2008 conference. With the one exception of what I thought was a bad talk, and some genuine unresolved questions on the place and use of prophecy and tongues, I was incredible impressed with and very much enjoyed the conference. Here’s some things I loved:
- Excellent music (lots of home grown song writers) and passionate congregational singing
- A genuine international movement – Christians from 52 nations
- Long preaches – conference preaches are longer anyway, but I know NF guys will generally be 45mins+
- A vision to plant churches (1000)
- Around 4000 people produced an offering of over £1M to support the mission
Glad you enjoyed it overall, Hugh. I’m not entirely sure what the issue is with prophecy, though.