Burnet, Texas

February, 2000

Introduction

Near the end of 1998, brother Wayne Moody and I began to format a discussion involving eight men on the topics of "Romans 14," "False Teachers," "Fellowship," and "Congregational Autonomy." In January of 1999, we sent out the first letters of invitation to eight men, whom we deemed to be competent and involved in some form or fashion in current controversy on those topics, to meet on November 4th and 5th in Burnet, Texas. Both by correspondence and telephone conversations, we worked our way through several months of questions, schedules and suspicions. Some of the original eight men invited were interested -- others were not. We finalized the plans toward the end of the summer with eight speakers committed but one of the participants had an emergency, family situation that demanded his immediate attention and was not going to be able to participate on the scheduled dates. In our judgment, this participant was vital to the discussion. We were then faced with trying to find someone to take his place at short notice; trash the plans; or reschedule the meeting for some latter date. We chose to pursue a rescheduling for February 3rd and 4th of 2000. Two of the eight men were unable to come on those dates and others we asked about participating were not interested. We were again faced with making a decision - should we cancel the whole discussion or cut out one topic and two participants? We decided to eliminate "Congregational Autonomy," and, in its place, have an open question/answer session on the final day. This, however, required reassigning two speakers to other topics and that, in turn, necessitated that they both start afresh on their manuscripts for a different subject. Both men were agreeable to pursue those changes at considerable, personal inconvenience. The discussion took place on February 3rd and 4th and the manuscripts of their speeches along with transcripts of each person's fifteen minute rebuttal/clarification are presented in this form for your careful consideration. We pray that by reading what each man has studiously presented that your understanding of these controverted topics will be clearer. We also hope and pray that the efforts of these men will have a very positive effect on bringing brethren closer together. We express our personal gratitude to these six men who, by personal sacrificing, gave their time and, at their own expense, have shared in this study. Wayne Moody; Jim R. Everett

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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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