Annual Residential Preachers’ Conference
Posted on June 24 2010
Posted by:
nicole harvey
There are new spaces avaliable for the Annual Residential Preachers Conference!
See the update below for details on the additional cost and the workshops that are still avaliable.
Click here to download the registration brochure. [1.34MB]
It is our delight to have Don Carson as our expositor and Andrew Reid as our Australian trainer for 2010.
We will be sinking our teeth into "Can these Songs Live? Reviving the Psalms in Christian Preaching"
The Conference begins on Monday 16 and concludes Thursday 19 August 2010.
Please take note of the date for your diary and those whom you believe would benefit spending some time developing the craft of preaching.
There are a number of critical elements which combine together to make the Ridley Melbourne Annual Preachers’ Conference unique. A residential conference designed to encourage preachers in an environment of fellowship, discussion and mutual encouragement with like-minded peers to develop skills in preaching and teaching God's word with the modelling from well known expositors.
Some accommodation will be offsite.
This conference will be a significant part of the celebrations of Ridley's centenary and also a significant contribution toward continuing the heritage of the College through training future generations of gospel-focused leaders and preachers.
Annual Residential Preachers Conference Update:
The committee discussed and has come up with an additional option for you to attend the preachers’ conference this year. Please be aware of the two workshops available to register. This additional option is over and above the forecasted costs and therefore comes with an additional cost of $70 We can offer you a place at the conference but only with this additional cost. Registration would be for $490
The primary element of this conference is unchanged: to enable delegates to invest in taking time apart from the demands of normal ministry, to be encouraged by God's words and to sharpen preaching skills together with like-minded peers. We have ensured that there is time off during the conference for fellowship, discussion, and mutual encouragement.
Our request is that you honour our stretching to include extra participants by working hard at supporting the residential nature of the conference by being present at all sessions.
Workshop choices still available:
Preaching Paul - Richard Condie
Preparing an Old Testament series on Jonah - Andrew Reid
Preaching Paul - Richard Condie This Workshop will tackle some the issues we face when preaching Paul’s letters, like: how we make sense of Paul’s dense arguments for preaching and how we turn it into a coherent and engaging sermon series; grappling with Paul’s context and ours, and the impact this makes on application; the usefulness of Pauline academic debates (New Perspective etc) in preaching today; as well as the challenge of applying his theology in the 21st Century. During the workshop we will work on a particular Epistle and aim to prepare a series outline by the end. The workshop will be interactive and participatory. Richard Condie is currently Vicar of St Jude’s Carlton where he has served since 2002. Prior to that he taught New Testament and Greek at Ridley for seven years. He is not a Pauline theologian, but is a pastor who loves to help people hear God’s words through preaching. He thinks Paul’s letters are pretty neat.
Preparing an Old Testament series on Jonah - Andrew Reid The goal of this workshop is for us to work through Jonah together, understanding its shape, its interests and themes, the various ways in which it might be preached, the main theory behind understanding an Old Testament book as Christian Scripture and how it might be preached to a Christian audience without denying its Jewish origin and setting. Our specific objective is for each person to put together outlines for four sermons on each of the four chapters. These outlines will consist of an outline of the introduction and conclusion and the principal points of the main body of the sermon. We will critique each other’s outlines and hopefully sharpen how they might be presented. Andrew will give an outline of the sermons he himself has preached on Jonah.
