"Toward A Better Understanding ..."

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Wayne Moody
February, 2000

Final Address To Participants

Thank you all for taking time out of your schedules to come and participate in this discussion, a discussion that was both necessary and essential to a better understanding of each other and God's word. It has been good to have been here.

As we leave here let us look to our heats as to how we have listened to ourselves and to others, as to how we have internalized what has been said and as to how we will convey the out come of this meeting using gracious words, seasoned with salt. You have come as brothers in Christ, in a spirit of brotherly love and reconciliation; otherwise you would not have agreed to come. Your example to others provides a platform for not only contending for the faith, but also for a foundation to teach how we should strive to be at peace with one another and how we should be willing to discuss differences in an atmosphere steeped in mercy and grace.

The discussions have put humanness back into the equation by meeting face to face. This has helped to remind us that we are mere men, all created in the image of God, bearing His likeness, which is reflected in the way respond to one another. You have opened your hearts for others to see, exposing your own humanness and vulnerability. It took trust to do that, one of the things that is so often lacking. After all, if a gracious, perfect, holy, transcendent god can put His trust in His fallible, imperfect creation to propagate the pure gospel, surely we can learn to trust one another.

We thank you for your frankness and openness, and encourage you, as you encourage others, to pursue the respectful, clarifying lines of communication that have been opened here by discussing things face to face, all towards a better understanding. We leave you with Paul's words to Timothy, "And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing, in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves: if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth, and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will." (2Timothy 2:24-26)

Thank you for coming and may the Lord bless all of us in our continuing effort to be servants of God.

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[Outline] [Intro] [Mtg Format] [Mtg Agenda] [Opening Address] [Final Address]

False Teachers: [Halbrook] [Owen] [Halbrook rebuts Owen] [Owen rebuts Halbrook]

Romans 14: [Earnhart] [Jenkins] [Earnhart rebuts Jenkins] [Jenkins rebuts Earnhart]

Fellowship: [Pickup] [Roberts] [Pickup rebuts Roberts] [Roberts rebuts Pickup]

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Thank you all for taking time out of your schedules to come and participate in this discussion, a discussion that was both necessary and essential to a better understanding of each other and God's word. It has been good to have been here. As we leave here let us look to our heats as to how we have listened to ourselves and to others, as to how we have internalized what has been said and as to how we will convey the out come of this meeting using gracious words, seasoned with salt. You have come as brothers in Christ, in a spirit of brotherly love and reconciliation; otherwise you would not have agreed to come. Your example to others provides a platform for not only contending for the faith, but also for a foundation to teach how we should strive to be at peace with one another and how we should be willing to discuss differences in an atmosphere steeped in mercy and grace. The discussions have put humanness back into the equation by meeting face to face. This has helped to remind us that we are mere men, all created in the image of God, bearing His likeness, which is reflected in the way respond		to one another. You have opened your hearts for others to see, exposing your own humanness and vulnerability. It took trust to do that, one of the things that is so often lacking. After all, if a gracious, perfect, holy, transcendent god can put His trust in His fallible, imperfect creation to propagate the pure gospel, surely we can learn to trust one another. We thank you for your frankness and openness, and encourage you, as you encourage others, to pursue the respectful, clarifying lines of communication that have been opened here by discussing things face to face, all towards a better understanding. We leave you with Paul's words to Timothy, "And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing, in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves: if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth, and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will." (2Timothy 2:24-26) Thank you for coming and may the Lord bless all of us in our continuing effort to be servants of God.

[Outline] [Intro] [Mtg Format] [Mtg Agenda] [Opening Address] [Final Address]
False Teachers:	[Halbrook] [Owen] [Halbrook rebuts Owen] [Owen rebuts Halbrook]
Romans 14:	[Earnhart] [Jenkins] [Earnhart rebuts Jenkins] [Jenkins rebuts Earnhart]
Fellowship:	[Pickup] [Roberts] [Pickup rebuts Roberts] [Roberts rebuts Pickup]