This year’s Restore Conference: Reason for Faith once again delivered quality Biblical teaching to the Clemson community with five hundred in attendance. The conference focused on preparing our congregations, Clemson Presbyterian and Crosspoint, and other Christians within the community to engage unbelievers with the Gospel—to reason for faith.
Dr. Bruce Ashford, dean of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Dr. Ligon Duncan of First Presbyterian, Jackson, Mississippi taught in our three general sessions. Dr. Ashford discussed how the Biblical narrative explains the whole world and Dr. Duncan discussed the exclusivity of the Gospel and exposited Acts 17.
In addition to the main sessions, the conference offered eleven breakouts ranging from more practical application discussions to heavier theological training. Topics ranged from new claims of atheism to engaging atheists with the Gospel to dealing with doubt to discussions of after life.
The conference provides much more than a great opportunity to sit under great teachers of God’s Word. The conference also unites evangelical Christians of different denominations and campus organizations as we worship God together through music and Biblical teaching.
The conference also allows for great times of fellowship in between sessions whether grabbing a snack, eating lunch, or volunteering.
Also, the conference bookstore allows for further reading and investigation of topics addressed throughout the conference.
This year, the conference provided a youth track where the youth looked to navigate through life and hold fast to Biblical truths as anchors in their life. After the Friday portion of the conference, many of the youth discussed the teachings further in respective host homes and stayed up late hanging out with each other.
I am thankful that I had the opportunity to use my gifts to serve Crosspoint Church and the community for the sake of the Gospel. I am blessed and encouraged by how well the conference went. God truly blessed us this year with great teaching and proclamation of His Word, opportunities to sing worship to him, to encourage one another, and to serve for the edification of one another and the advancement of the Gospel.
Look for media recordings at: www.restoreconference.org
One of the important facets of this conference was to equip local believers to engage the community with the Gospel with the event Coexist? The question of (in)tolerance. Ravi Zacharias and John Njaroge arrive at Clemson University’s Littlejohn Coliseum on March 8th to challenge the idea of religious tolerance and the intolerance of any religion that claims an exclusive access to God as Christianity proclaims. The format will include a forty-five minute teaching from Ravi followed by a question and answer session. It is our hope to engage the pluralists and skeptics among Clemson’s campus with the exclusive Gospel of Jesus Christ. When Ravi and John leave, it is up to us, the evangelical Christians, to continue to engage our community with the Gospel and to reason for faith.
www.coexistclemson.com
Praise be to God! For He alone is worthy of praise! And it is only by the blood of Christ that man can be reconciled before God. Pray for the salvation of souls in the Clemson community, that the Spirit would convict the lost with the Word of God.
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