It was good to be one of around 200 today who gathered in the American Church in Tottenham Court Road for the first day of the annual Westminster Conference. We had three papers from three older men - Iain Murray, John J Murray and Paul Brown. Erroll Hulse, Robert Oliver and Phil Arthur chaired. J J Murray has recently produced a book on the rise of the Reformed movement and he sought to recap on some of that. Paul Brown looked helpfully at the life of the first principal of London Bible College, Ernest Kevan. Perhaps the best paper was Iain Murray's on what we can learn from the Puritans. He considered six areas -
1. The vital nature of conversion
2. The need for method and structure to live the Christian life
3. The sanctification of the Lord's Day
4. The importance of Christian unity - not developed but perhaps it will be in the printed paper
5. The danger of Roman Catholicism
6. The power of the preached Word
Sadly, discussion was as unproductive as ever. It is difficult to see how it can be improved unless we distribute papers before hand.
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