Church and Culture, 1/4 fall conference

SESSION 1: Church and Culture: Adrift in the Storm of Confusion
Scripture: Gen 3:1

1. "Connecting the dots"
2. "Thesis" and major proofs
3. Signs of social collapse
4. Common threads across religion, culture, and politics
5. Signs of collapse in the church
6. Failures of the Reformed church

SESSION 2: The Poverty of Prosperity: Starved of the Word of God
Scripture: Amos 8:11-12

1. The necessity of standards (illustrations)
2. Spiritual anemia
3. The problem of "experiential" knowledge
4. Scripture as the "plumb line"
5. Troubling statistics
6. Two views of scripture: Jehoiakim and Josiah