Many people from all over the world travelled to Gartmore House, a few miles east of Loch Lomond, for the 2014 British Reformed Fellowship (BRF) family conference from July 26 – August 2.
The conference theme, ‘Be Ye Holy’, was ably developed in the six main talks and two Sunday sermons by David Engelsma and Herman Hanko, experienced ministers of the Word, seminary professors and Christian authors. Sanctification was understood in the light of God’s grace, compared and contrasted with justification, and related to the moral law (no antinomianism!). The imperfection and yet the victory of our sanctification in this life was clearly set forth.
The Revd Martyn McGeown, of the Limerick Reformed Fellowship in the Republic of Ireland, gave the opening address, explaining the role of good works in a holy life. In light of the conference subject and location, the historical lecture by Pastor Angus Stewart from Northern Ireland was ‘A Scottish Classic on Sanctification: James Fraser of Alness’s ‘explication’ of Romans 6.1 – 8.4’.
