Great God of Wonders 1

Yesterday, I travelled up once again to the conference centre in Northampton, this time for the biennial theological study conference organised by Affinity. Unusuay we began with a sermon and it was my privilege to preach it. I made the simple point that knowing God and knowing about God are two different things and it is important at a conference like this, on the doctrine of God, that we meet with God not simply stuff our heads with knowledge. My text was Isaiah 6 and I think I made my point.

We had our first paper later. This was presented by Mostyn Roberts and was on The personhood and power of God. The way it works at the TSC is that the papers are all written up and distributed beforehand. Mostyn then presented his paper to us in plenary session before we split into a number of smaller groups to discuss questions. I led one group and we had a good session before a final plenary session.

After tea we had a nice quiz and then chatted away until quite late. Good start.