I always enjoy the GBM meetings and it has been good to be there today once again. We began with the uncontroversial delegates meetin, probably the last for director Daryl Jones, who is retiring. We ended with Ray Evans preaching from Acts 16. There was also a plenary session on India - yesterday, today and tomorrow featuring - some history by Julia Jones who has pur together a fascinating little book on the women missionaries in the early days - I also attended a fuller session she led on this and bought her new book too) - contributions from John MacDonald and Ian Williams - and finally an interview with Tamil pastor Hanson Manova conducted by Graham Field. I also went to a session with the Ulster based Peruvian academic Daniel Caballero, who has just completed his PhD on John Owen. Part of the fun on these days is meeting old friends. Lots and lots of those today. Unusually my wife Eleri was around as she had agreed to man the Go Teach stall for much of the time. Great time.
The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.
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