Benefits of Attending The RB Family Conference

Driving home: It is a wonderful felt. It is a wonderful sense of the truth that there is such a thing as the universal church.

The concrete experience of sitting next to members from various Reformed Baptist churches (Mebane, Roanoke, Albany) in a common hall, singing praises and hearing the Word, illustrates the felt reality of the universal church.

It is a great privilege when we, as the people of God, are given a heightened awareness The reality of this doctrine, not in the abstract, but in the concreteness of sitting next to members of Baptist Church of Mebane, North Carolina, that church local, and members of Trinity Baptist Church, Roanoke, that church local, and members of the Albany Baptist Church local,

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Driving home: And where there are edifying, helpful, godly friendships, there must be a solid basis of commonality, of perspective, of goals, and of convictions.

Observation of young people from Trinity Baptist spending free time with peers from other churches at the conference, rather than their own, illustrates the blessing of short-term friendships meeting critical needs during adolescence.

Who have the same basic perspectives regarding the issues that are such burning issues to kids and to young people. In that age period where acceptance by one's peers is so critical to a sense of one's identity, those short-term friendships have been a blessing of God and a tremendous means of grace to many. It was evident, as I saw at the last conference, that some of our own young people spend their time in the church. They spend their time spending much of their free time, not with young people from this church, but young people from other churches. And not necessarily those of the opposite...

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Driving home: And where there are edifying, helpful, godly friendships, there must be a solid basis of commonality, of perspective, of goals, and of convictions.

The example of his own sibling and her husband establishing deep friendships with couples from other assemblies at conferences illustrates how adults find meaningful, safe, long-term friendships based on common biblical perspectives.

ten pals with young people who share the same perspectives and parents who are sharing the same perspectives in the molding of those young people, God alone can measure the benefits that this will eventually bring to them. And likewise with adults. It's been a delight for me to see within my own family, one of my siblings and her husband's established very deep friendships with one couple in this assembly, another couple that came from another congregation in the Maryland area. And I have seen this at conference after conference where

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Driving home: She said with a holy glow on her face, I see more solid food in this one week.

The story of a dear woman and her son traveling from an area without sound ministry, expressing joy at receiving 'more solid food in this one week' at the conference, illustrates the benefit of concentrated ministry for those lacking it locally.

who are doing the best they can with what is available to them in terms of church coverage. I think of one dear woman who with her son came from an area where there just is not within any reasonable driving distance what we would call a lively, spirit-filled, biblical ministry. She said with a holy glow on her face, I see more solid food in this one week.

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Driving home: She said with a holy glow on her face, I see more solid food in this one week.

A man and his teenage daughter telling Martin that his tapes have been 'a voice in our house' for 15 years, and the daughter not remembering a time without his voice, illustrates the impact of tape ministry and the appreciation for meeting the speaker in person.

With measure of gift that warrants that larger exposure is not in any way in contradiction to what is condemned in 1 Corinthians 1 and in 1 Corinthians chapter 3. How? I can't count how many people, I can't count who came up to me and do each year come up to me and say, I'm so glad to meet you face to face. The tapes of Trinity Folk that have been my main spiritual thing in terms of the ministry of the word for X number of years.

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Driving home: These family conferences constitute a very concentrated opportunity for spiritual rethinking.

The analogy of the devil coming 'like a flock of birds behind the sower seeking to plop up the scene' when the seed of the word is sown, illustrates how the concentrated environment of a conference minimizes such distractions, aiding spiritual growth and conversion.

Father, do you not hear familiar words, such vorecious and well doing? For you do see that we shall, if we faith not. jesus said i have sent you to reap where you have not previously labored others have labored and you are entering in the people of this number giving themselves to prayer where there is this concentrated ministry of the word without the opportunity of a whole week in between for the devil to come as jesus says he always does when the seed of the word is sown like a flock of birds

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In this part of the sermon: Conferences afford a framework for churches to share Christ's speaking and serving gifts with one another, as pastors minister beyond their local assemblies and members of…

The example of Pastor Cacino preaching a 'prayed over, warmed up by the Holy Ghost, sermon once preached before' illustrates how churches share speaking gifts, with the Richmond church benefiting from Trinity Roanoke's willingness to 'give up their pastor'.

with Mike Brackett because of the pressures of preparation. It was felt that for him to come back to the conference after losing four times and come up with fresh material. He'll be laid to much upon him, so he's preaching prayed over, warmed up. There's a difference between a warmed over, unprayed over, sermon from a barrel, and a prayed over, warmed up by the Holy Ghost, sermon once preached before.

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The point: Obtain the two messages by Pastor Andy Hamilton on the maintenance of unity and romance in marriage.

Pastor Andy Hamilton's list of ten indications (e.g., little prayer, lack of affection, unresolved conflicts) serves as a diagnostic test for couples to assess their need for his messages on unity and romance in marriage.

wove it up, text after text, in an accurate and balanced way. But to get our attention, he said, I want you to do a little test on your marriage to see if you've got any real need for these messages. And then he set out ten indications, ten symptoms of a marriage that's got problems. 1. Little or no prayer together as a couple.

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In this part of the sermon: Martin briefly describes a weekend in Owensboro, Kentucky, including his teaching on the marks of a healthy church and a sermon on James 2:19. He then details the Dayton…

The friendship with John and Nancy Bluer, formed as a result of the Mid-America Conference, illustrates the long-term friendships that can be established through these gatherings.

and Nancy Bluer, have become dear friends. Here's an example. Long-term friends. We made, as a result of the Mid-America Conference some years ago, he said it was the largest attendance they'd ever had on that Lord's Day morning. They had an

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