Windows into Holiness: Becoming More Like Jesus

One of the church’s greatest challenges is to disciple believers so that they continually grow to become more like Jesus. This seminar is designed to help pastors and ministry leaders understand the biblical call to holy living, and to disciple believers toward wholeness and holiness.

Seminar Objectives:

• To provide a biblical view of holiness
• To provide an overview of the Brethren in Christ views and understandings of holiness
• To provide an overview of the experience of the North American church with the Holy Spirit
• To consider some of the challenges the church faces in discipling people toward a life of holiness and wholeness
• To look at practical ways to disciple people toward holiness: inner healing, dealing with addictions, renewing the mind, etc.

Many practical suggestions will be offered during the seminar, including:

• an annotated bibliography
• helpful resources for teaching / counseling
• how to create a healthy environment for growth and wholeness

Seminar Overview

8:30 Registration

9:00 Welcome and overview of the day – Doris Barr

9:20 Video: Pastoral views on holiness

9:30 A Biblical Framework for Holiness – Doris

10:15   Questions and response

10:30  Break

10:45 Holiness Equals “More Like Jesus” -- Matt Lewis

11:30 Questions and discussion – Matt

12:15 Lunch

1:15 What is Conversion?  Review / discussion of Luke Keefer’s paper - Doris

2:00 Windows from the Broader Church - Matt

2:45 Break

3:00 Practical / Pastoral Applications  Focused discussion - Doris

3:45 Wrap up – Matt

4:00 Dismissal

 

Dates and Locations

March 15, 2007 – Amherst Community BIC, Massillon, OH

March 29, 2007 – Westheights BIC, Kitchener, ON

April 26, 2007 – Ontario BIC, Ontario, CA

April 30, 2007 – New Joy, Ephrata, PA

May 1, 2007 – Chambersburg BIC, Chambersburg, PA

May 2, 2007 – Redland Valley BIC, York Haven, PA

Presenters:

Doris Barr - Doris has been on staff at the Mechanicsburg Brethren in Christ Church (Mechanicsburg, PA) since 1991, and currently serves as Associate Pastor. She leads McBIC's Discipleship and Healing Prayer Ministries. She has also served on the Commission on Ministry and Doctrine for the Brethren in Christ since 2000. Doris is currently an M.A.P.T. candidate in Spiritual Formation at Ashland Theological Seminary. She and Dave have been married for 35 years and have two grown sons, Kevin and Brian.

Matt Lewis - Matt graduated first in his class from North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago with a Master of Divinity degree and is currently enrolled in a doctoral program on Transformational Leadership at Ashland Theological Seminary. In 1992 he moved to Waukesha County in Wisconsin to plant New Vision. Matt currently serves on the Brethren in Christ Board for World Missions and as a pastoral mentor in the Lilly Foundation's Pastors of Excellence program. He and Lori have been married for 19 years and have three children: Josiah 13, Catherine 11, and Jacquelyn 9.

Luke Keefer - Luke is in his twenty-first year at Ashland Theological Seminary, where he is a professor of church history and theology. Previously, he taught Bible and religion at Messiah College for fifteen years. He has served the denomination as a missionary at Navajo Mission and as a pastor. His academic degrees are from Messiah College (1963), Asbury Theological Seminary (1971), and Temple University (1982).

The cost of this one-day seminar is $50.00.  That includes two breaks, lunch and the materials which will be sent to you upon receipt of your registration.

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