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Preaching Epistles: 2 Timothy

Practical Instruction - Persuasive Preaching - Small Group Practice

January 24-26, 2024 | Bellflower, California
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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

KINNEY Robert Kinney Clergy, Christ Church (Vienna)

Robert Kinney

Clergy, Christ Church (Vienna)

Robert serves on the clergy team at Christ Church in Vienna, Austria (Church of England, Diocese in Europe). He also serves as the Director of Ministries of the Charles Simeon Trust, where he has served since 2005. Robert earned a bachelor’s degree in Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago, an MS in Communications (Journalism) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a PhD in New Testament at the University of Bristol in England. His dissertation was published by Mohr Siebeck in the WUNT II series as Hellenistic Dimensions of the Gospel of Matthew: Background and Rhetoric. He previously served as a pastoral intern at Holy Trinity Church for six years (2002-2008) and later as University Minister (2012-2014). He is a Fellow at the Center for Pastor Theologians and also serves on the Boards of the Charles Simeon Trust of Canada and Prédica Fiel in Cuba.

REDMOND Eric Redmond Professor, Moody Bible Institute

Eric Redmond

Professor, Moody Bible Institute

Eric C. Redmond is Professor of Bible at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. He also serves as Associate Pastor of Preaching and Teaching at Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park, Illinois, and as a Teaching Fellow for the C.S. Lewis Institute-Chicago. He holds a ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary and a PhD in Biblical Studies from Capital Seminary and Graduate School. Eric’s research interests are in hermeneutics, interpretation of narrative, parable, and poetical literature, and Bible exposition. Eric is the general editor of Say It! Celebrating Expository Preaching in the African American Tradition, the Preaching Magazine 2020 Book of the Year. He has contributed to Christianity Today and academic journals, published commentaries on Judges and Ruth, Jonah, Mark, 1 Corinthians, and Galatians, and produced two works on Ephesians. He is a Fellow at the Center for Pastor Theologians and previously served as senior pastor of Reformation Alive Baptist Church in Maryland.

TIBAYAN P. J. Tibayan Pastor, Bethany Baptist Church

P. J. Tibayan

Pastor, Bethany Baptist Church

P. J. Tibayan serves as pastor at Bethany Baptist Church in Bellflower, California. He earned his BA from The Master’s University, his MDiv from The Master’s Seminary, as well as a Master of Missional Leadership from The Resurgence Training Center, before receiving his DMin in biblical theology from Southern Seminary. Previously, he served as an intern at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., as youth pastor and assistant pastor at Christian Fellowship Bible Church in Walnut, California, and as the pastor for preaching at CrossView Church. PJ currently serves on the steering team for The Gospel Coalition LA, and leads Shepherd LA. He participates with the pastors of the Los Angeles Southern Baptist Association and the Long Beach Harbor Baptist Association. He blogs at A Christward Life (SaintPJ.com) and sporadically writes for Desiring God, 9Marks, SOLA and The Gospel Coalition.

Bethany Baptist Church
Schedule

8:15am-4:30pm, Wednesday, January 24
8:15am-4:30pm, Thursday, January 25
8:15am-12:30pm, Friday, January 26

Small Group Passages

Participants will each be assigned two of the following passages:

2 Timothy 1:1-5 2 Timothy 2:14-19
2 Timothy 1:6-12 2 Timothy 2:20 – 3:9
2 Timothy 2:1-7 2 Timothy 3:10-17
2 Timothy 2:8-13 2 Timothy 4:1-8
Cost

$139 USD before December 18
$159 USD after December 18
Lunch and refreshments are provided each day at no cost.

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