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SUMMARY:GES 2023 National Conference
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Camp Copass in Denton\, TX for the 2023 GES National Conference on Vital Free Grace Issues!\nNew for this year: \n\nLunches at Camp Copass are included in the price of paid registration!\nLunch is included for kids attending VBS (ages 5-10 only)!\nFree Continental breakfast available in the Talley Center for guests staying at Camp Copass!\nAfternoon recreation time is now built into the schedule to allow for swimming and other activities at the camp!\nMore evening fellowship opportunities!\n\nRegistration is now open! Click here to go to the registration page. \n[cherry_hr height=”2″ color=”#c5d7da” indent_top=”30″ indent_bottom=”30″] \nThe National Conference is available to watch live! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get notifications when we go live or you may watch the videos later! https://www.youtube.com/GESVids/live\n \nThe Talley Retreat Center offers the most comfortable accommodations as well as the meeting rooms for Plenary and Workshop sessions.\n \nRecreational opportunities include swimming during designated times\, mini-golf\, basketball\, human foosball\, a lake nearby for fishing and kayaking (bring your own gear)\, evening fire pit fellowship\, women’s fellowship\, teen and young adult fellowship\, RV hook-ups\, and more.\n \nVBS for the kids will take place at the Angel Conference Center.\n \n[cherry_hr height=”2″ color=”#c5d7da” indent_top=”30″ indent_bottom=”30″] \nAccommodations:\nTalley Retreat Center\n\n$145/night\n2 Queen beds\nSofa bed available in some rooms (request at registration)\n\n \nAngel Motel\n\n$107/night\n2 Full beds\n\n \nRV Hook-ups\n8 sites available with full hook-ups. \n[cherry_hr height=”2″ color=”#c5d7da” indent_top=”30″ indent_bottom=”30″] \nSchedule:\nVital Free Grace Issues\n\n\n\nTime\nLocation\nEvent\nDetails\n\n\nMonday\, May 22\, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n11:00-12:45\nFoyer\nRegistration\n\n\n\n12:00-12:30\nDining Hall\nLunch\nFree for Paid Conferees; $8 for children\, $11 for unpaid.\n\n\n12:45-12:55\nMain Room\nOverview/Disclaimer\nBob\n\n\n1:00-1:50\nMain Room\nPlenary Session 1\nKen Yates\, Is Believing in Jesus for Forgiveness of Sins the Same as Believing in Him for Everlasting Life?\n\n\n2:05-2:55\nMain Room\nPlenary Session 2\nJ. B. Bond\, Proving our Salvation by Our Words\, Our Works\, or Both\n\n\n3:10-4:00\nMain Room\nPlenary Session 3\nBob Vacendak\, Is Assurance of the Essence of Saving Faith in the Gospel of John?\n\n\n4:00-5:15\nVarious\nFree time for swimming\, putt-putt\, basketball\, etc.\n\n\n\n4:15-5:00\nMain Room\nOptional Session\nKen Yates\, Basics of FG for Newbies\n\n\n5:30-6:00\nDining Hall\nSupper\nCost = $11 ($8 for children)\n\n\n7:00\nVarious\n\nFellowship for young adults\n\n\n9:00\nFire pit area\nCampfire fellowship\nCampfire & S’mores\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 23\, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n8:00-8:30\nDining Hall\nBreakfast\nFree Continental for guests; $11 for others.\n\n\n8:35-8:45\nMain Room\nWorship in Song\nBob Vacendak\n\n\n8:50-9:40\nMain Room\nPlenary Session 4\nBob Bryant\, 2006 Revisited*\n\n\n10:00-10:50\nMain Room\nPlenary Session 5\nJohn Claeys\, Will Those Who Never Heard About Jesus Get a Second Chance?\n\n\n11:10-12:00\nMain Room\nPlenary Session 6\nDavid Janssen\, Why Faith without Works Is Still Faith\n\n\n12:00-1:30\nDining Hall\nLunch\nFree for Paid Conferees; $11 for others.\n\n\n1:30-2:10\nVarious\nParallel Sessions 1*\nClaeys\, Rutherford\, Bond\,\n\n\n2:20-3:00\nVarious\nParallel Sessions 2\nBryant\, Janssen\, Sterling (1)\n\n\n3:10-3:50\nVarious\nParallel Sessions 3\nVacendak\, Millet\, Kathryn Wright\n\n\n4:00-5:15\nVarious\nFree time for swimming and other activities\n\n\n\n5:30-6:00\nDining Hall\nSupper\nCost = $11 ($8 for children)\n\n\n5:30-6:30\nAngel Meeting room\nLord’s Supper (bring your meal)\nChip Brunott\, A Church Meeting That Should Be in the Plan\n\n\n7:30\nVarious\n\nWomen’s Fellowship\n\n\n9:00\nFire pit area\nCampfire fellowship\nCampfire & S’mores\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, May 24\, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n8:00-8:30\nDining Hall\nBreakfast\nFree continental for Guests; $11 for others.\n\n\n8:35-8:45\nMain Room\nWorship in Song\nNicole Rossen\n\n\n8:50-9:40\nMain Room\nPlenary Session 7\nJohn Niemelä\, Repentance Unfound in John’s Gospel: A Concept Foreign to Jesus’ Message of Life\n\n\n10:00-10:50\nMain Room\nPlenary Session 8\nMike Lii\, Focused vs. Flexible Free Grace\n\n\n11:10-12:00\nMain Room\nPlenary Session 9\nDix Winston\, The Promise of Life and the Controversy of the Cross\n\n\n12:00-1:30\nDining Hall\nLunch\nFree for Paid Conferees; $11 for others\n\n\n1:30-2:20\nMain Room\nPlenary Session 10\nSteve Elkins\, Is Faith Certainty or Some Degree of Confidence?\n\n\n2:30-3:10\nVarious\nParallel Sessions 4\nLii\, Winston\, Niemelä (1)\n\n\n3:20-4:00\nVarious\nParallel Sessions 5\nLewis\, Zimmerman\, Yates\n\n\n4:00-5:15\nVarious\nFree time for swimming and other activities\n\n\n\n5:30-6:00\nDining Hall\nSupper\nCost = $11 ($8 for children)\n\n\n7:00\n\nPutt-Putt tourney\, Volleyball\, 3 on 3 basketball\, frisbee golf tourney\n\n\n\n9:00\nFire pit area\nCampfire Fellowship\nCampfire & S’mores\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, May 25\, 2023\n\n\n\n\n\n8:00-8:30\nDining Hall\nBreakfast\nFree continental for Guests; $11 for others.\n\n\n8:35-8:45\nMain Room\nWorship in Song\nNicole Rossen\n\n\n8:50-9:40\nVarious\nParallel Sessions 6\nElkins\, Wilkin\, Sterling (2)\n\n\n10:00-10:40\nVarious\nParallel Sessions 7\nda Rosa\, Letitia Lii\, Niemelä (2)\n\n\n11:00-11:50\nMain Room\nPlenary Session 11\nBob Wilkin\, The Inclusive Big Tent of Some “FG” contradicts Matt 7:13-14\n\n\n11:55-12:00\nMain Room\nThanks for coming\nBob and Sharon\n\n\n12:00-12:30\nDining Hall\nLunch\nCost = $11 ($8 for children)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n*At the 2006 national GES conference\, a great controversy arose over assurance and regeneration. \n**Workshop speakers are listed above in order. 1st = main. 2nd = 2nd floor. 3rd = 3rd floor. \nWorkshop Titles: \nJ. B. Bond\, Grace and Works Together (Eph 2:8-10) \nBob Bryant\, A Way To Explain Romans 10:9 \nJohn Claeys\, The Critical Importance of the Doctrine of Reward in Free Grace Theology \nAntonio da Rosa\, TBA \nSteve Elkins\, Why Zane Hodges Taught That Faith Is Certainty \nDavid Janssen\, Stepping People Through James 2 \nSteve Lewis\, Consensus Theology and Its Impact on Biblical Theology \nLetitia Lii\, Do You Know about the New GES Seminary? \nMike Lii\, The Changing State of Free Grace Theology \nWalt Millet\, Disciples Are Made Not Born: A Free Grace Distinctive \nJohn Niemelä (1)\, Do People Believe in Jesus for Nothing? Clarifying Objects of Pisteuō \nJohn Niemelä (2)\, Did Jesus’ First Disciples Testify Beyond Their Knowledge or Were They Already in the Know (John 1)? \nArch Rutherford\, Heaven on Earth? (Revelation 21-22) \nPhilippe Sterling (1)\, Who Are the Overcomers and What Are the Promises Made to Them? (Revelation 2-3) \nPhilippe Sterling (2)\, Radical Gender Theory: The Assault on God’s Created Order \nBob Vacendak\, The History of Assurance (500 AD to the Present) \nBob Wilkin\, Q & A for Newbies \nDix Winston\, The Declaration\, Directives\, and Dignity of Grace (Titus 2:11-14) \nKathryn Wright\, Forgive and Forget? What Does Biblical Forgiveness Between Believers Mean? \nKen Yates\, Basics of Free Grace Theology \nBruce Zimmerman\, The Great Escape: How to Never Practice Church Discipline by Denying Believers Can Sin Badly \n[cherry_hr height=”2″ color=”#c5d7da” indent_top=”30″ indent_bottom=”30″] \nRegistration\nRegister here: https://new.faithalone.org/shop/conference-registration/ges-2023-national-conference-registration/
URL:https://new.faithalone.org/event/ges-2023-national-conference/
LOCATION:Camp Copass\, 8200 E McKinney St\, Denton\, TX\, 76208\, United States
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