Comments on: John 3:16 Conference 60 minute Q&A

By: john melton

john melton — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:51:56 +0000

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Twitter Church and Classroom | Sweet Tea & Theology — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:03:24 +0000

[...] which I contribute to. The same can be said of blogging. I remember when I live blogged the John 3:16 Conference. I had to listen very intently, but that process didn’t allow much time to analize the [...]

By: Dr. James Willingham

Dr. James Willingham — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:57:25 +0000

The nice thing about these conferences is that they get people to thinking, investigating, thinking, reflecting, thinking, examining evidence, thinking, discussing, thinking. One of these days, the burning fuse is going to reach the powder keg and we are going to have an explosion, the greatest awakening the world has ever seen. The whole earth is to be converted in one generation and, who knows, perhaps a thousand generations. After all, Mr. Spurgeon prayed for just such thing. And with a Gospel message that is so wonderful that one cannot resist it, we need to start praying that others, like the woman of Canaan in Mt.15:21-28 will see Jesus not being sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel as an opportunity to come and fall down before Him in Worship and who will see His word regarding the casting of bread to dogs not being meet as the truth but willing to take that remark and use it as a basis for arguing with the Son of God that even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their little masters table. Who ever saw a kid give his dog under the table a mere crumb of his bread? He is more likely to give the animal the whole loaf. AND THERE ARE THOSE WHO THINK JESUS NEVER USED HUMOR. Wisdom is jutified of her children.

By: A Response to Dr. Paige Patterson’s Presentation on Total Depravity « Strange BaptistFire

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:17:58 +0000

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By: Thomas Twitchell

Thomas Twitchell — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:31:16 +0000

johnMark- Thanks for the heads up today. It took me most of the day, being brain-dead as I am, but I got a response up. White has responded in kind. So we shall see.

By: Compilation of John 3:16 Conference Posts From Challies.com « Strange BaptistFire

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:16:13 +0000

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By: Live-blogging and Notes from John 3:16 Conference « Provocations & Pantings

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:58:36 +0000

[...] 1. John 3:16 Conference (Lindsey) 2. Registration, Schedule, and Books (Lindsey) 3. Johnny Hunt Opening Message (Lindsey) :: (John Mark) 4. Jerry Vines on John 3:16 (Lindsey) :: (John Mark) 5. Paige Patterson on Total Depravity (Lindsey) :: (John Mark) 6. Attendance and Mood (Lindsey) 7. Richard Land on Unconditional Election (Lindsey) :: (John Mark) 8. David Allen on Limited Atonement (Lindsey) :: (John Mark) 9. Steve Lemke on Irresistible Grace (Lindsey) :: (John Mark) 10. Ken Keathley on Perseverance of the Saints (Lindsey) :: (John Mark) 11. Charles Stanley on John 3:16 (Lindsey) :: (John Mark) 12. Question and Answer Session (Lindsey) :: (John Mark) [...]

By: johnMark

johnMark — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:45:46 +0000

Les,

Last I was told the attendance was right at 800. I thought there were more, but that number is alleged to come from Jerry Vines.

Mark

By: Les Puryear

Les Puryear — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:24:45 +0000

Sorry to come late to this party: been out of town. Please forgive me if you’ve already answered this question, but how many attendees were at the conference?

Les

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:35:25 +0000

John,

When I tried to scan my original copy myself, it came out the same way, i.e. without the shading visible. It wasn’t a criticism of you at all, so sorry if it came across that way. I’m sincerely trying to be helpful with the chart in supplying you and others with a good quality version.

I understand about the “s” thing It’s happened to me since I was very young. I’ve seen Burn and Burns as well. So, even with that, I wanted to help to make things as accurate as possible.

Thanks,
Tony

By: ABClay

ABClay — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:24:42 +0000

I find it more helpful when I ~~, through the grace of God, rescue rank and file Southern Baptists from their man-centered theology by teaching God’s sovereignty in all things~~ teach Sunday School to distinguish between the order of the decrees of God instead of the type of chart that is posted here when these questions are asked.

This method (order of decrees), in my opinion, adequately shows the differences between the Calvinists and Non-Calvinists (and the various subsets thereof) and it has less appeal to the emotion and more to the intellect ~~which is why it may not have been the preferred method for the conference in question~~.

For instance, which presenter went to the stage and said, “I believe that God created some people knowing that they would not eventually believe”? While all of them believe this, (I hope), it doesn’t sway the audience to your side because we don’t want to think about these things.

Of course, this is just my opinion.

ABClay

By: johnMark

johnMark — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:16:48 +0000

P.S. The reason I added an “s” on your last name is because that is how it sounded when Dr. Allen pronounced it. I didn’t have much time to check as he spoke very quickly and the connection wasn’t so fast.

Mark

By: johnMark

johnMark — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:15:34 +0000

Well, Tony. I’m sorry my scan doesn’t meet your sniff test. You sure come across condescending for something as simple as a scanned document.

You can thank my rush in and out of Kinko’s for that. Had I been in my office I’d have a much better quality scan to offer.

Low quality scanner,

Mark

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:37:05 +0000

Hi John,

I made a pdf copy of the chart I created for Dr. Allen, so here’s the link to obtain that, if you’re interested:

Conference Chart

It’s higher quality and the shading is visible, unlike your scan.

By: ABClay

ABClay — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:48:02 +0000

Now this is certainly ironic…

Allen, the self proclaimed de-calviniser of all the historic calvinists, said this:

We need to come together and talk about these things as we did at the Building Bridges Conference.

Funny “Let’s forbid the Calvinist from speaking and supporting their beliefs through biblical exegesis, and then say that they should be here so we can come together.”

This is even better than God’s three plans of salvation that was birthed there at the conference.

ABClay

By: Thomas Twitchell

Thomas Twitchell — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:58:18 +0000

Thanks Mark for doing this. In the next couple days weeks months there will be I suppose more complete texts and commentary written. There is so much that went down here that I’ll wait to make any more comments except to say that from all that we knew from these men before this conference, we could have scripted it and saved them the time and effort…