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Preaching the Gospel of Luke

Practical Instruction - Persuasive Preaching - Small Group Practice

November 13-15, 2024 | Lincoln, Nebraska
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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

LAWRENCE Michael Lawrence Lead Pastor, Hinson Baptist Church

Michael Lawrence

Lead Pastor, Hinson Baptist Church

Michael became Senior Pastor at Hinson Baptist Church in Portland, Oregon in September, 2010. Michael came to faith at an early age, but never understood that the Christian life was more than salvation until he was introduced to the InterVarsity campus ministry at Duke. Michael earned an MDiv at Gordon-Conwell and a PhD from Cambridge University in 2002. He served as Associate Pastor for more than 8 years at Capitol Hill Baptist in Washington D.C. He is the author of Biblical Theology in the Life of the Church: A Guide for Ministry, co-author of It Is Well: Expositions on Substitutionary Atonement (with Mark Dever), and contributed to Perspectives on Christian Worship: Five Views.

BUIKEMA Derek Buikema Lead Pastor, Orland Park Christian Reformed Church

Derek Buikema

Lead Pastor, Orland Park Christian Reformed Church

Derek Buikema is the Lead Pastor at Orland Park Christian Reformed Church in Orland Park, Illinois. Derek attended Wheaton College, Westminster Seminary, and Calvin Seminary. Derek’s sermons have been featured on AM 1160’s program “Teach Chicago,” and he is a regular conference speaker.

KERNS Stu Kerns Senior Pastor, Zion Church: PCA

Stu Kerns

Senior Pastor, Zion Church: PCA

Stu Kerns is the Senior Pastor at Zion Church: PCA in Lincoln, Nebraska. A life-long Lincolnite, he’s served there since 1990. Stu got his BS in Education from the University of Nebraska and taught High School English for three years before transitioning into the pastorate. He has an MDiv and DMin from Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis. Stu is the Chairman of the Great Plains Network, a church planting cooperative of the PCA and has overseen the planting of two daughter churches in Lincoln.

Zion Church, PCA
Schedule

8:15am-4:30pm, Wednesday, November 13
8:15am-4:30pm, Thursday, November 14
8:15am-12:15pm, Friday, November 15

Small Group Passages

Participants will each be assigned two of the following passages:

Luke 1:5-25 Luke 16:19-31
Luke 4:16-30 Luke 18:15-30
Luke 6:37-49 Luke 19:1-10
Luke 12:1-12 Luke 23:26-49
Cost

$139 USD before October 7
$159 USD after October 7
Lunch and refreshment breaks are provided each day at no cost.

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