The ACT 3 Luncheon Forums provide a series of meetings
designed to equip and encourage Christians. Speakers will address a
wide range of topics.
These meetings include an opportunity to get to know other
Christian leaders from the Chicago area and to engage in lively
conversation.
Speakers include professors, former professors and authors.
Each specializes in some way in the subject they will be
speaking on at the luncheon. Space is limited so register
today.
Cost includes meal (including soft drink,
tip and tax) and the event.
These luncheons will be held at Holiday Inn, Carol Stream. More
information about Holiday Inn, Carol
Stream.
Noted author and speaker Steve Brown will help ACT 3, a
mission for advancing the Christian tradition in the third millennium,
celebrate its seventeenth anniversary. This special event is open to
the public. Steve is a long-time friend of Dr. John H. Armstrong, the
president and founder of ACT 3. Steve is the featured speaker on the
nationally syndicated radio program Key Life and the author of ten
books. He also serves as a professor of preaching at Reformed
Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida.
There is
no charge to attend this event but an offering will be received. You
will also hear the story of ACT 3 and learn how this unique ecumenical
mission is seeking to meet the challenge of equipping Christians and
churches to live as faithful disciples and communities in the new
millennium.
September 5, 2008 | 7:30 p.m.
Barrows Auditorium, Billy Graham Center
Wheaton College 501 E. College
Avenue Wheaton, IL 60187
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To advance worship in culturally accessible forms, through orthodox theology that is deeply rooted in the classical doctrine of the triune God and through humble collaboration and cooperation within the whole Christian Church.
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Perhaps
the most pressing personal question we face at the beginning of the
new millennium is: “What does it mean to be a human person?”
Scientists and social scientists work from every angle seeking to
give Western people a reason to have meaning and purpose. I suggest
the recovery of the doctrine of the Trinity, in our human
consciousness and experience, is the only meaningful answer to our
quest.
Non-Christians
often seek to understand the doctrine of the Trinity and find it
totally incomprehensible. The famous American, Thomas Jefferson, was
one such person. He called the Trinity “incomprehensible
jargon.” The medieval Catholic theologian, Thomas Aquinas,
would have agreed with Jefferson, but he would have also said that
which is “incomprehensible” is “not
unintelligible.”
Theologian
Charles Lowry has called the doctrine of the Trinity “the most
comprehensive and the most nearly all-inclusive formulation of the
truth of Christianity” (“What Is the Doctrine of the
Trinity,” in Millard J. Erickson, ed., The Living God,
Vancouver: Regent College Reprint, 1973, 419). I believe the doctrine
lies at the heart of the Great Commission in Matthew 28 and thus it
is vital to the true mission of Christ’s Church. I also believe
that Karl Barth was correct when he said “Father, Son and Holy
Spirit” is rightly the “Christian name” of God.
In
five previous articles we have surveyed the importance and
development of the doctrine of the Trinity in the history of the
Christian Church. I have maintained that modern Protestant Christians
pay way too little attention to this central Christian truth. Whether
it is out of sheer ignorance, or from a dismissive assumption that we
already know this truth, it does not really matter if we are not
committed to the confession of, and our personal and corporate
experience of, the divine Trinity. Our preaching, prayer life,
worship and music all reflect the virtual absence of Trinitarianism,
in both our private lives and in our church practice. The results are
serious. So how do we get this truth back and then begin to take it
very seriously in our Christian experience?
This
edition of the ACT 3 Weekly is different. Usually I write a
biblical or theological commentary on some aspect of the Church’s
faith, life, or mission. This week I want to tell you about ACT 3.
Who are we? What do we do and why do we do it? What are my dreams and
hopes for the future of this unique mission?
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