Author: art rogers
Baptist Conference on the Holy Spirit 4
Saturday, April 28th, 2007 @ 2:25 pm
Last night was a lot of fun. Gary Smith, pastor of Fielder Road BC in Arlington, TX, spoke on the person and work of the Holy Spirit. It turns out that Gary and Fielder Road have invested in several African American churches as they were planted or turning around from decline. This is a church and pastor that have crossed many lines in search of Kingdom growth.
Wade Burleson lit the place up with an impassioned sermon calling for unity. Along the same lines of thought often promoted throughout this conference.
Denny Davis, pastor of St. John’s Baptist Church in the metroplex, brought it home with the amazing support of his choir. He spoke on the necessity of the Holy Spirit in the growth of the church.
This morning, Robin Fowler spoke on the need for the Spirit in preaching.
Bart Barber’s presentation was fascinating. Based on historical documentation, Bart did find much common ground, even rousing some response from a crowd that the majority of which clearly disagreed with his primary conclusion. Good job and a well peesented, Bart. I was glad to meet you face to face.
Sam Storms finished with a 30 min. presentation of 24 points. I hope to get permission to publish both Bart & Sam’s outlines.
Sam was outstanding in the pulling together vast Scriptures off the to of his head.
The panel discussion was interesting. For the most part, there were not any surprises and Bart fielded most questions, which, I suppose was to be expected.
More later and I will post my speech in full after a day or so.
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April 28th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Art-
Well done, bro. Keep it comin’.
April 28th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
The conference has been interesting. I’ve been commenting some about it on my blog too. Art did not give justice to Robert Fowler’s sermon. He really brought it this morning. And with power. Actually, if I didn’t have the opportunity to hear Ben Cole preach every Sunday, from just this one sermon, I would be tempted to move to Las Vegas to hear more of what Fowler had to bring us from God’s word. I’ll write more about it on my blog, but wow, that was almost the best part of the whole morning.
April 28th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Gary was my pastor my first Semester @ SWBTS. Then I went on staff at a church in North Ft. Worth. We loved Fielder Road.
April 29th, 2007 at 6:42 am
Art,
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April 29th, 2007 at 6:46 am
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April 29th, 2007 at 8:18 am
His name starts with ‘J’—he really likes that one.
April 29th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Bart,
That’s funny. Hey, I really appreciated what you said and the way that you said it. to stand before a crowd that disagrees with your primary conclusion and get the response you got is a testament to your demeanor, talent and humility before the Lord.
I wish we could have had a more personal word and discussed some of these issues away from the crowd. Perhaps another time we will have that luxury.
I pray the Youth Retreat went well.
Art
April 29th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
We had a great time last night at the youth retreat, capped off by a concert from a band from Oklahoma, the Nick Thurman band.