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Preaching Apocalyptic Literature: Revelation

Practical Instruction - Persuasive Preaching - Small Group Practice

February 05-07, 2025 | Jackson, Mississippi
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What Is It?

The Workshop on Biblical Exposition is a three-day training event aimed to encourage and equip you in the skills needed to read, understand, and proclaim the Word of God.

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The Workshop on Biblical Exposition is a three-day training event aimed to encourage and equip you in the skills needed to read, understand, and proclaim the Word of God. The Workshop includes times set aside for 1) Principles of Exposition (instructional sessions on how to better handle biblical texts), 2) Small Group Practice (when you will share and receive feedback on two passages you prepare in advance), and 3) Expositions (the opportunity to sit under the word). Each of these sessions is carefully designed to be interrelated for the greatest value in improving your work. In other words, this is a Workshop and not a conference. If you cannot be at all the sessions, then it really isn’t for you.

It is important to note: Partial participation is not permitted. Our pedagogical commitments in the small group sessions as well as the cumulative relationship between the small group and plenary sessions, full participation is required. Extenuating circumstances should be discussed with the Charles Simeon Trust and exceptions will be granted very rarely.

Who Should Attend?

The Workshops on Biblical Exposition are for men who are responsible for regularly preaching and teaching. We also welcome those in bi-vocational ministries as well as those training for ministry.

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The Workshops on Biblical Exposition are for men who are responsible for regularly preaching and teaching. We also welcome those in bi-vocational ministries as well as those training for ministry. We also have Workshops for women who are responsible for teaching women.

Given our understanding of Scripture, most of our Workshops on Biblical Exposition are for men who are responsible for regularly opening up God’s Word for God’s people. Specifically, they are for those men currently in pastoral ministry and, as such, are responsible for preaching and teaching God’s Word in congregational settings. Though vocational preaching pastors are our priority, the Workshops are open to those in general teaching ministry: including some lay-preachers, teaching Elders, seminary students or professors, teaching missionaries, and those serving in similar roles. Again, our priority is those who regularly preach or teach from God’s Word.

I noticed you just said “men.” What if I am a woman?
We are fully committed to training women for ministry through our Workshops on Biblical Exposition for women. But we also have theological commitments as to what that means. The Charles Simeon Trust adheres to a position on church leadership that is often identified as “complementarian.” While we do not support the ordination of women for pulpit ministry, we do believe that women are called to teaching ministry for women in biblically appropriate settings and should be trained for it as such. It is our conviction that the Church in North America has been particularly slow in this kind of training effort, and as such, we need to do a better job of training women. Women need to be equipped for this task. While the local church should and will do much of this work, we believe that we can support the church in further enabling women. As such, we have established Workshops on Biblical Exposition for women in ministry. We believe that women who are working in ministry in churches need encouragement in their ministry and hope that, by encouraging women to participate in the Workshop for women in ministry, we can also establish a base for fellowship and encouragement. Knowing this, women who wish to attend a Workshop on Biblical Exposition, regardless of where they identify themselves on an egalitarian-complementarian spectrum, are welcome to participate in a Workshop for women in ministry. It is designed for women who are currently in a teaching ministry with the responsibility to teach the Bible regularly. It is open to women who lead in regular teaching ministries including large group instructors, small group teachers, and women’s and children’s ministry leaders appointed by their churches. Women who are interested in this Workshop or have questions about our position or philosophy on this matter are encouraged to contact the Director of Women’s Workshops, Colleen McFadden (cmcfadden@simeontrust.org).

How Should I Prepare?

During the small groups, you will have an opportunity to get feedback on work you’ve prepared in advance.

 

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Leaders

MESSNER Aaron Messner Senior Minister, Westminster Presbyterian Church

Aaron Messner

Senior Minister, Westminster Presbyterian Church

Aaron is the Senior Minister at Westminster Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Atlanta. He served as the Chaplain of Covenant College from 2007 until 2012. Before moving to Covenant, Aaron was the Associate Pastor at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. He received both Bachelors and Masters degrees from Wheaton College and an MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey. He has authored two articles in the Princeton Theological Review and has worked with the Nehemiah Project in Philadelphia.

MATHESON Mike Matheson Lead Pastor, Grace Church

Mike Matheson

Lead Pastor, Grace Church

Mike Matheson is the Lead Pastor of Grace Church in Racine, Wisconsin. He holds a BA in Communication from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and an MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. After serving as a Combat Medic in the US Army, Mike was involved in a disciple-making ministry with US soldiers overseas and served as an associate pastor in churches in Northern Virginia.

BELSER Greg Belser Pastor, Morrison Heights Baptist Church

Greg Belser

Pastor, Morrison Heights Baptist Church

Greg Belser serves as Pastor of Morrison Heights Baptist Church in Clinton, Mississippi. He earned a BBA from Corpus Christi State University in Corpus Christi, Texas as well as an MDiv and DMin from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Previously, Greg served as a pastor at Morningview Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama and Webb Baptist Church in Webb Alabama.

DUNCAN J. Ligon Duncan, Dr. III Chancellor & CEO, Reformed Theological Seminary

J. Ligon Duncan, Dr. III

Chancellor & CEO, Reformed Theological Seminary

Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III is the Chancellor & CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary and the John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology. He is also currently serving as President of RTS Jackson. He served as Senior Minister of the historic First Presbyterian Church (1837) in Jackson, Miss. for 17 years (1996-2013). He is co-founder of Together for the Gospel, Senior Fellow of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (having served as both Chairman of the Board and President), and was President of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals from 2004-2012. Duncan served as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America (2004-2005). He studied at Furman University, Greenville, SC (BA); Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis (MDiv, MA, cum laude); and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (Ph.D.). Duncan has edited, written, and contributed to numerous books.

Morrison Heights Baptist Church
Schedule

8:15am-4:30pm, Wednesday, February 5
8:15am-4:30pm, Thursday, February 6
8:15am-12:15pm, Friday, February 7

Small Group Passages

Participants will each be assigned two of the following passages:

Revelation 1:9-20 Revelation 12
Revelation 2:1-7 Revelation 17
Revelation 5 Revelation 19:11-21
Revelation 8:6-13 Revelation 21:9-22:5
Cost

$139 USD before December 30
$159 USD after December 30
Lunch and refreshment breaks are provided each day at no cost.

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