Few conferences are as unfashionable as the Reformation and Revival Fellowship held in mid-November, and few are as relevant.
The messages can be summarised under a few grace-filled imperatives.
Look
Graham Hind, MD of Evangelical Press, spoke from Hebrews for the opening sermon, encouraging the listener to warmly look to Jesus as the full and final revelation of God, our present help and future hope.
Seek
Kenneth Stewart of Glasgow Reformed Presbyterian Church applied the life of Asa focusing on ‘the Lord is with you while you are with him’ (2 Chronicles 15.2).
Though he initiates the covenant relationship, God is responsive to us – if we seek him he will be found by us but if we forsake him he will forsake us (though not losing our salvation). This is not legalism but the normal covenantal relationship, based on and sustained by grace but calling forth wholehearted seeking.
Pray
The heart of seeking. It is labour; persist in it; wait in it.
Contend
Derek Cleave spoke from Jude. Contending is to be done earnestly, by living the faith as well as watching for error. Most slide into error not due to intent, but through laziness and carelessness in handling what they read and hear. A fall is most likely to happen when we are comfortable, with past battles behind us.
