My friend and classmate (and organizer of the recent Emerging Church Forum at Westminster), Tony Stiff, has now made available the PowerPoint from his Thursday night breakout session at the Forum. His presentation is a whirlwind tour of how the more visible portion of the Emerging Church presents itself, it’s public face if you will. [...]

Andrew Jones (TallSkinnyKiwi), perhaps the best known Emerging Church blogger in the world, posted his evaluation of our Student Association forum this past weekend after reading the lecture notes and transcripts posted on this blog and several others. We’re still hearing cheers and jeers from Westminster students (mostly cheers in my ears), but I’ve been [...]

I invited my friend and Westminster classmate John Eddy to adapt a comment he wrote on another blog into a “guest blog” here on Sacred Journey. When he’s not sharing a beer with me, John currently serves as Executive Director of the new Gospel & Culture Project at WTS.

Listening to Scot McKnight’s talk last Thursday [...]

The “official” recordings of all the main sessions from the Westminster Theological Seminary Student Association Forum on the Emerging Church are now available at Westminster Bookstore (www.wtsbooks.com). Click on the “Emerging Church Conference” link in the left-hand menu or use the link below.
As of this posting, the 8-CD complete set is available for $40 and [...]

UPDATE: The problem for IE users referred to in this post has now been fixed by my installation of a new template. I leave the post as is, however, just because it gives me an excuse to have the PC vs. Mac guys’ picture on my site. - the Foolish Sage
My apologies that apparently Sacred [...]

This is the final installment of my notes from the 2006 Westminster Theological Seminary Student Association Forum on the Emerging Church.
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Dr. Dan McCartney is professor of New Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary
McCartney opened by telling us that he had been asked to present the “classical” view of penal substitution [...]

I am very pleased to announce that Dr. Scot McKnight (blog) has asked me to make available the full, original text of his first address to the Westminster Theological Seminary Student Association Forum An Eternal Word in an ‘Emerging World’? Download the PDF version of his manuscript using the link below:
Note: If you are going [...]

I’m establishing this post as a place to link to the various post-forum reflections going on on the web. I’ll add links as I find them.
First, let me say that we all owe a great debt to Tony Stiff and all the members of the WTS Student Association who made this conference happen!
Conference organizer Tony [...]

As I noted below, I played hookie from the forum today in order to spend time with my grandkids. The two who live in North Carolina are here with the three who live right here on the WTS campus. Ben Inman is cute with the pony tail and all, but my grandkids easily won out [...]

Address to the WTS Emerging Church Forum
October 27, 2006
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Jesus Christ died with us, instead of us, and for us. He was our substitution, and his death brought manifold benefits. We need all three categories identification, substitution, and benefaction to properly understand the atonement. The Scriptures are clear: the Father [...]