I've just received the programme for this year's Westminster Fellowship. This is the ministers' fraternal originally started by Dr Lloyd-Jones that became very popular in the late sixties and early seventies but that is now, I'm afraid, down to a rather reasonable number most months.
Programme 2007-2008
2007
1 October OPEN MEETINGRev Robert Strivens (Principal of LTS)
a.m. Mr Strivens will preach
p.m. Doddridge and Compromise: Training for the Ministry Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
5 November
Rev Gary Brady (Childs Hill)
Regeneration Revisited
2008
4 February
Rev Neil Evans (Porth, Rhondda)
The Structure and Content of Worship
3 March
Dr Stuart Burgess (Bristol University)
Intelligent Design
12 May OPEN MEETING
Rev Andrew Davies (Ystradgynlais)
a.m. Mr Davies will preach
p.m. Unction in Preaching
2 June
Discussion Meeting
OPEN MEETINGS
Please note: The meetings in October and May are open to evangelical ministers who are not members of the Fellowship. We encourage members to invite such men to the meetings on both these occasions.We hold meetings of the Westminster Fellowship in the Lounge at the rear of Westminster Chapel, Buckingham Gate, London SW1. From 10.30 a.m. we meet for coffee and the morning session commences at 11.00. For lunch (from 12.45 p.m.) we bring our own sandwiches, and helpers serve tea/coffee. A time of prayer at 1.45 p.m. precedes the afternoon session, which ends by 3.30 p.m.
3 comments:
You still use Westminster Chapel? Some other conservative meetings have moved away from there now, I believe.
Oh, and I'm not being rude, just curious, why aren't all the meetings of the fraternal open to other invited ministers?
This is not meant to be a barbed comment, it just arises from 'cliqueiness' I have observed locally.
WC took a decision a few years ago to start charging commercial rates. The WF gets a special rate I believe. The subject's kept under review.
The closed nature of WF arises from it being a discussion group. Some sort of commitment is necessary to obviate time wasting. Open meetings are designed to encourage membership.
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